The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-15

the applicant absolutely demanded an
attendant. The pleasing feature of
these affairs is that the age of the ap-
pliCant Is the only Tequisite-his color,
race or religion is not questioned. AS
to the expense attached, the committee
say there is absolutely no trouble in
raising the amount required, each year
seeing more liberal disposition on the
part of those approached. Let the
good work go on, and in few years
time, when the generous, large hearted
men who first conceived the idea are
entitled to be called odd folks" the
young and mid0le-aged of the present
day will see to it that they have seats
OF honor on the occasion of all such
gatherings.
SERIOUSLY, SAYS Labouchere in Lon
don Truth, l can't help thinking that
the wickedness of court ladies in the
Eighteenth Century must have lain
chiefly in their looks and talk. In
judging of their morals, we should first
glance at their surroundings, which
were all hindrances to immortality.
Their chairs and sofas appear to us (be-
cause of the rounded lines in the medal.
lion back luxurious. But lust sit
down on them if you are tired and want
to loll, and you will find that thew were
made for Spartans and not for law
reclining sultanas or such like. You
have to keep bolt upright on them.
The complexion of the Eighteenth
Century beauty was not you will OBJ
serve, for close inspection, it being
artificial. And when there was q RIM
for coitteurs al mode, the hair of q
fashionable belle was dressed once in
three or four days. There was a deal of
suffering pour etre belle. To begin with
natural rest was esCheWed. ami 10 ave
the powdered head from being toss, Il II
was not laid on pillow for nights. lbe
way to keep 1t IN gear being to SIT no IN |
bed propped up with pillows. There |
was certainly no laisser altar in the |
long, stiff waist, tight as a drum over
stays not hooked and eyed down the |
Chest, as IN our moral time, but they
laced behind, aud a perfect armur OF |
buckram and Whalebone. The stays III |
the Eighteenth Century were onlv re-
moved, because only removable nv an |
abigail, once in twelve hours. M
beauty, you may depend upon it. oeled !
and threw hot artillery into her ca
but remained all right in her citadel
OF hoops, whalebones and sedan chair. |
although Cupids disported on The
panels of the latter. There might have
been Sir Charles Grandson kissing of
ialr hands and diamond rings, as Love
illness in all her war paint was box.d
up in the sedan chair or bolt uprignt ON
her sofa. Bat what of this? NV i'm
preston is that there was free trade in
talk. Sex was sunk, and what is known
as after dinner liberty or conversat1on
was all around admitted. But there
was no Zolaism.
THE NAN who says lit doesn't paw to
advertise" will spend week in schem
Ing and plotting to obtain a mention of
MS name In the columns of the paper
whose influence he attempts to despise.
YES" SAID the sweet girl graduate
in burst Of confidence, of course. she
was not Salt Laker, my education ia
now complete, but still 1 am not al
together happy. Mamma and DADA
unfortunately, have q habit of urO |
nounclng their words so badly and
they know so little about polite litera
ture and the sciences, you know, that il
really is quite hardship for me to as
seciate with them"
Mrs. GARFIELD is rich, General Gov
fields estate Melted the widow about
$4,000, and in addition she received
$25, 900 insurance on his life. Congress.
1t will be remembered, voted her an
annual pension of $1,000, and gave her
besides $4,000, which would have been
the balance of the salary due the Presi- |
dent at the end of his first year in office
had he lived. The amount of the non
Mar subscription raised directly after
Garheld's death, when invested for her
in government bonds, aggregated $3l2,-
OOO. 1t VIII be observed, therefore.
that she is quite comfortable when il |
comes to hard cash, and her yearly in
come must be at least S25, 600.
PRINCE ToN BISMARCK likes cards, and
has left it L record that he oAce PLAYED |
with political purpose in his mind.
He sat down at ecarts with the Austrian
Plenipotentiary, who, in a few DAYS.
would have to discuss with him the
Schleswig-Holstein question. It was
his cue to make his opponent believe
that he was rash man. AMI so he
played wildly aud staked high. The |
effect was that when they came tn tall
politics, he found his opponent deeniv |
impressed with the belief that Austria |
must not provoke state having IN its
council so reckless a minister.
A YOUNG man of this city who. SAYS a |
Louisville exchange, until recently, had
lived at the house of his father, mar
ried few weeks ago and went to live