The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-03-24
SOCIAL GOSSIP.

These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
-TenDyson.
Failure, after long perseverance, is much
grander than never having a striving good
enough to be called failure.-George Eliot.
New Jersey, New Hampshire, Nebraska
and Massachusetts, have laws prohibiting
the selling or giving away of tobacco to
minors.
Eight hours is about right for other people
to work, but the newspaper man will have to
stick to his sixteen hours as usual.-ChIcago
Inter-Ocean.
Use wen the moment; what the hour
Brings for thy use is in thy power;
And what thou best canst under stand,
Is just the thing lies nearest to thy hand.
Goethe.
The damsels of the New Century Guild" in
New York, advertised to sew on buttons and
mend clothes for gentlemen at cheap rares.
One wedding has already resulted and sew
eral others are expected.
Young men and young women who have
got all the routine of fashion at their fingers
ends, and who would commit suicide before
they would commit solecism in dress or in
the etiquet of fashionable life, are frequently
guilty of degrees and forms of rudeness which
would utterly taboo them if they moved in
most of what they are pleased to regard as
''the lower circles of society,""
A young lady of an epigrammatic turn has
attentions of young gentle dude so tall
that when he goes to masquerade he simply
chalks his head and passes for billiard cue.
In melting hour the youth asked her if she
could describe him in single phrase. Before
he had time to take fresh breath she in
formed him that to her mind he was IAN at
tenuation accented with a mustache." He
will live but looks wilted.-Buffalo Courier
"Iknow young boy who is being simply
ruined in his education by his mother. He is
eight years old, with all the noble instincts of
probity and obedience which generally char
acterize boys nature. This tender parent
has instructed him that whenever he gets on
a lear, the appearance of the conductor to col
lect the fare reduces his age under five. Last
week friend OF the family was displaying his
interest in the child by inquiring his age.
The little fellow hesitated for moment and
then looked up at his mother Mamma, is
be a CONDUCTOR No child Then / am
eight years old."-Good Cheer.
Lawrence Hutton, in Lippincotts, for
March, has an interesting article on The
American Play" He begins with the asser-
ton that the American play is yet to be
written, and is unable to explain the absence
of anything like standard American drama
and the non-existence of single immortal
American play. The lack of American plays
he notes, is very remarkable in view of the
fact that the Americans are theatre-going
people, and more journals devoted to dra-
matte affairs are published in New York
than in any European capital, except per-
haps Paris During the single century of
the American stage" Mr.. Hutton continues
mot two-score plays of any description have
appeared which have been truly American,
and which, at the same time, are of any value
to dramatic literature or of any credit to the
American name"
The Springfield (Mass) Republican saws:
| Superintendent j. j. r. Randall of the Rut-
land schools, started a scheme month ago
in the graded school district with the object
of inducing the pupils to hord their spare pen
MES IN the savings banks. 1t has worked so
successfully that he makes public the scheme
and its untold advantages. At the end of
February $3.50 thus gathered was depos-
tied in a savings institution. When the roll
has been called in each school room, any
pupil who has an offering to make, com es
forward and gives it to the teacher, who
credits ii 10 the scholar. The savings bank
will not take a sum under fifty cents, so
when the day of depositing these various
collections comes the teacher learns from the
account book Just how much each scholar
has handed in, and those having over fifty
cents, have their money salted down in the
bank and are given each a handbook with
their account. The question of the disposal
of the cash in bank or how long it shall lay
there, is lett altogether with the pupil. The
children, however, will be advised to let the
funds remain in the bank at least during
their school years. One of the results is re-
lated by the proprietor Of chair factory,
whose chairs are mostly cane-seated by chill
dren out of school hours. Since the savings
plan was started the children eagerly work
much longer, and many who before were
idle are hunting employment in his factory
as well as elsewhere.