The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-03-21


EEeuTsllln yT5E soxEs
4as Lovely women SsIs5 ,Is.oWd t6s
EreAt Rows a thetQber
y was az. the opera the other night.
Faust was on the bill and the house
was crowd with the BEAUTY al IA sfea J,
OF the town.. Standing up between flie
acts i swept the boxes with my orera
glass and the sheen cf the diamond ttft-
shone tue glare Of tie bright ssaltss Tllef
( white and bare shoulders of flie women
rose along the front SEATS IKE the tofs or
soft white waves, ana their liliooyereSli
arms were as ripples of foam that res-
iieved the bright eolors of tneir costumes
Clear comp Sioned, bright eyed and
aggreAziye in their Illaa 81 tllen
leaned over, the front. of their boxes and
sent Their spar king eyes cslfeening
through Ules house. They were lovely
sIleamelis of tRe, fsmiAine form divine.
and the world has not left them N ignor-
arce Of thar deli III fact o4
Take almost any Of the boxes aEf TIE
| story OF its oeeup allts lives vii 7soint the
that night - ~ : eI1t q u tsiE
Never mind the narticulnr, box, hut
there was one that drew my attention.
Three women on tii & inst row, s0perbly
built. cherry ppefl mud : - lnncrf.
With faces serene, heal FeIfsct and
contentment marked on every lihe OF
their vel cut conn tenas1ces txises had
swept into their places long after the
| performance had begun and gazed about
/ with superb indifference after throwing
on their wraps. - !
The well rounded outlines Of the old
est of the three, and the repose that ran
through her every motion, marked her
out as woman to whom care was un-
known, and satisfaction an everyday
romance She might have been 40. but
isshee looked rs. RThe other two were
isyounger, but both were pictures of abb
I solute physical beauty. They We're one
family, and may have been mother,
\ daughter and sister, The three were
magnificent evidences of the, develop
/ ment and culture that are building mp.
7 the fichwofner Of New York. and Civ
j ing an Inheritance of health and beauty
| to the new generation that is growing
|, around us today
Andthe hr1sband2 for he was there, too.
The wife turns occasionally In caro-
] less, half Indifferent way and saws a
| word to some ONE who sits in the rear of
box. and in the half dimness can be,
seen the man whose money makes all this
loyeliness possible.
Is he. too, developing and rounding
out his life in pleasant ways and without
weighing cares5 Look ut him even in
weight; he is many pounds lighter tlian
|sisthe magnificent woman he calls wife,
aud who glances back at him sometimes
almost pathetically. The burrows along
his cheeks are cut deep and his eyes are
Sometimes weary and often heavy, oven
when Marguerite sings her sweetest
/ strains. fsa astsEfEii i99s sds
+ The world has been wrestling with him
for quarter of century, and his Office
has seen him every day during all that
time. He has defved for wealth. and 3 he
1 has found it, but his bent shoulders and
shrunken figure tell the story of the
strained anxiety that has covered his life
for years. Unceasing work during the
day and uncertain rest in the quiet of the
night have laid the mark of go years
upon him, though he has not perhaps
touched As. sa FsslassM az -.
He has Ought for tie placein the opera
h Svler. his proud wife sits. lie has stT1ies
i gfedf to keep. her III the splefiSiori that.
A befits her beauty. He tolls saI6dg, hold
ing TO his ACCOMMODATIONS and laYishing
them upon her, while hcr loveliness and
stateliness grow with advancing matronsl
i hoods and the years Of middle manhood,
bring to him. the weariness and decrepi-
ttlde Of old age isis s9s 20. isssls59
,asI It is nc. fancy sketch. bTlle,operadionse
lYns full Of such pictures that night lis
full of them every night.
True, there are some magnificent spec
i linens of sstalwartg American manhood,
strolling here and, there through the lob
bies or lounging In Tie body Of the house.
lSBdt then inostof these men are umnlar-
llried.- New York Graphic. ~ - -
The ycnezneIan,s SationaI weapon. ~
The inachete broad sword or knife,
about tso'of three feet long. and carried
without sheath, IS the universal arm of
Venezuela and Central America. In. the
| southern states of thus country the Iirin-
tcipal use for the maclete is for cutting
sugar cane, but in South America 1t re-
places the pocket knife, the axe and the
sword. The s.lIaneto or 1IIaciendero is
never seen without it Hey cuts bread
with II, peels sugar cane, cuts bananas
Il and other fruit from fhe trees rhoF,s