The Washington critic., 1886-09-16
WASHINGTON CRITIC
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER fG. 1886
TOPICS OF THE DAY.


drug store TO reporter of the Gin.
cinnati Telegram. "And when was
that2" when she stopped at cigar
store to buy some Havana lottery tick
cts" Suppose she paid her money
and got them Nothing remarkable
about that" Eyes, but there was,
though. You see in all the tobacco
shops lottery tickets are hung up on
lines or strings across the window.
Well, Mrs. Gaines drove up in her car
riago and alighicd The proprietor
seemed to know her, for he immcdi-
ately came from behind the counter,
and, without saying word, opened
the door of the window show.c case and
stepped back. Mrs. Gaines advanced,
and, gently tanning herself, some of
the breeze blew up certain of the tick.
els. There were only three that blew
up, and she purchased them ALL That's
the way she always purchases OBJ
served the dealer when she had de.
Parted"
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Senator Stanford big house on Far
ragut Square is in charge of one of his
private secretaries awaiting the many
times millionaire. The public will
never know, says the Boston TiUcsl-
ter'S correspondent, the amount Of
money which this Senator annually dis
tributes in charity, and although he Is
absent, the work goes on in special
cases where the big-heartcd philan.
thropists sympathies have been en-.
listed. Only the other day pitcous
letter came from widow in Chicago,
saying that she had been so reduced in
circumstances that 1t was either ques.
tion of starvation or beggary. To add
to her other troubles, she said that her
only son was rapidly becoming a
drunkard. and she asked for money to
take him West and start her in bust
ness. She enclosed picture of herself
and son, which showed good. looking
woman and Incorporating young
man. The letter did not differ from
that Of hundreds of others received by
the Senator were 1t not for the fact that
in closing the writer said that If
the money was not forthcoming imme-
diately she would surely commit sui
eide. The money has not been sent,
and up to date the Chicago papers have
not recorded her suicide. Stanford
keeps four establishments-ono in New
York, San Francisco, Palo Alto and
Washington. His expenses for himself
and wife from December TO the middle
of August footed up Sj00000. The
Senator is firm believer In the mas
sage treatment Every night just be-
fore retiring he has an operator to
work upon him, and he describes the
results as most beneficial and delight
full. Last winter he was treated by eS'
Prize Fighter Collins, who was known to
the ring us ''the cast.iron man." Sen
ator and Mrs. Stanford are not eX-
rccted here before November.
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Says the Boston Record: The South
ern girl Of the present generation is al
most unknown in current literature
But she is Tremendous force in the
life at the South, as girls are every
where, and her strength has beer
especially well shown by the agitations
of the last week or two, in that part oi
her domain which lies within tn,
earthquake region. That ubiquitous
creature, the eyewitness, says that thu
girls of Charleston have been brave
than their mothers through all thu
crisis of these trying days. Th'
daughters of good old families, who
have grown up during the past twenty
years. have been trained in scverel
school of self.denial than their mothers
ever dreamed of, and 1t has developed
their strongest qualities. Says the eye
witness: Il have now in mind one OF
these southern girls who may be taken a'
representative of large class, though
i doubt if there are mdny individual:
who are quite up to her high standard
of daily practice. She is we'll educated
and accomplished, brilliant in conyer
saton, well fitted to shine In society,
but her life is spent in patient, self
sacrificing work. She accepts cheer
fully conditions Of life to which heI
mother, who was reared In atiluence
can never fully accustom herself. Il
is frt m the ranks of girls whose fami
lies were impoverished by the war tha
Southern womanhood Is now recruited
They have been reared in closer con
tact with the hard realities Of the bat
tie Of life than the less useful women
of the elder generation. And tc Ger
tain extent, they have changed thei
standards of womanly excellence. Tn,
highest type of Southern girl recog
nizes the spirit of the age and respect
the dignity of honest work. Tn
gentle tastes which she inherits are al
added equipment in the new relation
in which she stands before the world,
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DR.. NJ. Munford, proprietor OF tn
Kansas City Times. has been in Cali
1ornia for number Of weeks. TIL
other day, says the Chicago Neocs, Ii
was talking with Mike De Young O
the San Francisco Chronicle about tn
smartest business man he ever met
His name is Charley Hasbrook," sal
Munford, "and he Is the ebusiness mani
ger of our paper. He always has n
tye to business, and he never take
hold Of anything that 1t doesn't pay
Last Thursday night telegraphed hit
that / had just reached the Golde
Gate. Next morning, bright and early
/ got an answer from him sayin!
Bring it back with won and I'll |,
you nave lhe hinges Iof your louole'
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They are enjoying decidedly crut
and rural joke at the expense Of Coul
CALI at LennoX, says Io'ca Topic
The Count was lounging at the pos
office, waiting for the mail, when Il
coach drove up. The driver called
him: Here, boy! come hold my hors
for mel" Without moving q muse
the Count obeyed, and restrained Il
anatomical coursers till the driver r
lievcd him. "I'm much obliged to yo,