Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-29
ON VERY DANGEROUS
A Minister Who Proposes to Stop
Courting on Sunday.
MRS. SECRETARY WHITNEY.
Mrs. Langtry's Fenccs-Bessic Kittson
senator Evarts' Sidewalk "A
"Shop Borrowcr''-Clara
Bellies Letter.

New YORK. Jan. 25.- [Correspon-
dence of the BEE. shall there be no
wooing on Sundays? When the Rev.
Dr. Walpole Warren was imported to
this country by the church where DR..
Stephen Tying preached at Forty-sec-
ond street aud Madison avenue. great
deal of interest was excited by the prop
osition to contest the law forbiddiug
the importation of laborcrs to this coun-
try under contract. That matter was
eventually settled. but it called such at
tcntion to DR.. Warren us no other
event could, unless it be the proposition
that this clergyman has now made to
his church: DR.. Warren has proposed
that the young ladies in his church shall
make an agreement not to visit or re-
ceivc visits on Sundays. When this
matter was put to a vote before an asso-
citation OF the young people of his parish,
they agreed unanimously to put 1T into
force. This undoubtedly, however, was
due to the magnetic influence of DR..
Warren when he made the suggestion.
He is about ifty-seven years old with a
moderate supply of silver side-whislters
and pleasant smile and voice. He is
an energetic worker and thOrough-going
evangelist. When the young people
came to think the matter over, the
sober second thought began to have its
effect. and it is quite doubtful whether
Mr.. Warren will find it an easy matter
to break in thus upon a well-established
American custom. One of the young
men in his parish in speaking of it said
to the writer:
when the proposition was first laid
before us, we were enthusiastic about it,,
because we felt like taking hold of DR..
Warren and helping him make his work
here grandly successful, but as to this
project, we cannot help looking at it
now as something of an I'M justice, and
unnecessary at that. To us who work
all the week with no time for social en-
mcnt, Sunday comes as Il genuine day OF
rest, and apart from the religious feat
ures of the day, it gives us opportunity
for innocent enjoyment that could not
| possibly be had at any other time dur
ing the week. Sunday is recognized as
the one day of all when young man is
privileged to call upon his best girl,
and inasmuch as there is nothing sacre-
ligious about that. | cannot see why
should be compelled to abandoned it..
1t is not like an ordinary call between
who have known each other
and been established in their
relations with each other for a great
many wears. 1t is the cultivation of
new relations which are apt to be and
generally prove to be very sacred and
dear to all parties concerned. 1t is a
matter of good religion that IA man
should have a good family. and the pro-
hibition of doing anything upon the
Sabbath towards
SECURING A HELPMATE
to establishing good family is some
thing that II church ought not to de-
mand. very much doubt, therefore,
that Mr.. Warren's project will prove
successful, and | certainly hope that
preachers elsewhere, especially in the
country districts, will not be led to
initiate his example,"
Secretary Whitney is a bigger man in
Washington than he is in New York.
This is perhaps natural in the head of
the United States navy. But he would
be larger in New York if he didn't be-
long here. and was as IL stranger forced
to go to Il hotel while in town. AS it is,
he keeps up an elaborate establishment,
and has only to drive home and disap-
pear from view until ready to return to
his train. His wife does nearly all her
shopping here, except in trivial mat
ters. and frequently on these expeditions
the secretary is her devoted attendant.
They are not encountered on the prone
nades, for they drive everywhere. Those
who know Mr.. Whitney only as the
cabinet officer should see him while on
| these little excursions. What Il meta
morphosis! He stepped on board the
Washington express the persOnitication
| of an energetic business man; he steps
| into fashionable Fifth avenue milli-
ner's Il beauish attendant to a lady.
| Away with armored cruisers and seacoast
| defences. Bonnets are the order of the
| DAY. And to tell the truth. he applies
| himself now as assduously to the study
| of the latter as he did II few hours be-
| fore to the former. He will pick up a
| hat, inspect it from all sides, criticize
this shape and that curve, and after his
wife has adjusted the wonder on her
| head will repeat the operation of view.
of his better half. and strange to say
she defers unquestioningly to his taste
IN hats and several other matters of per-
sonal adornment. He does not insist
| upon being actually present when she is
measured for II gown, but this is doubt
| less concession to the dressmaker's
| feelings. More than one milliner in
| New York wishes in her soul that he
! would exercise this consideration in
other directions, and they are unani-
nous in voting him anuisance. But this
doesn't annoy the secretary of the navy
and results in his wife dressing to suit
her husband. AS long as this is so the
navy is secure.
| The amount of privacy which
| MRS. LANGTRY
| manages to secure during spell
of rest at her city home, and at the
same time keep herself constantly ad
vertiscd to the public eye, is in itself al
indisputable proof of the woman clever
ness. Her latest achievement is tc
bring down the wrath of certain selfish
neighbors who complain because hel
new English six foot fence, built to def,
the curious, rests upon the stoop line
instead upon the house line, hor dwell
ing standing about thirty feet back
BY the way, it has been suggested, ant
with apparent cause, that the ily's sue
cess rs an unhappy wife is due not TO al
acquired but to IN inherited accom-
plishmcnt. y New York lady, while il
London recently, came in contact with
one who had known Mrs. LangtryI
well on the island of Jersey. Say,
A.. . l.. Il. Il, : Ii.