, 1888-10-07
A General Glance.

turns Of their hospitality.
A General Glance.
The young society people of Omaha
have formed a social club and PROPOSE
giving parties and all sorts of entertain
ments. from which all old society bellies,
married and single, are to be excluded.
The bellies will probably form a similar
society, and the young people will have
to look with a lighted candle to find a
beaux at theirlnerrvmakings.
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l would have the marriage service re-
vised by a committee of matrons, SAYS
Labouchere in the London Truth. They
would make short work of LET the wife
see that she reverence her husband, "
Love honor and obey" and the rest of
those obsolete phrases which have helped
to make marriage such a failure. Moth
ing could show more conclusively how
utterly the marriage service is out Of har-
mony with the ideas of the day than the
yesting Of the bridegroom with this
fictitious Importance. AS everybody
knows who has ever been married,
or even witnessed the operation,
this individual is the most
insignificant actor in the proceedings.
NNOOONf pays any uIOOLblOA W nlul, ne ID
a mere puppet in the hands of his best
man. The papers devote whole columns
to the appearance and dress of the bride
and bridesmaids, but no one ever states
what the bridegroom looked like or what
color his trousers were. No ladies' paper
ever published a picture of him. He is a
nonentlty, a mere nOnltaiS unl6rd. 1t is
very natural then that women should
object to seeing him treated as the master
OF the situation, and no one can wonder at
their universal reluctance to go through
the marriage service under such condi-
tons.
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When the female captain of the Saliva
ton Army was going through the congre-
CATION at Augusta shaking hands, she
was compelled to slap one young gentle
mans jaw for squeezing her hand too
hard. There has always been a good deal
of religious feeling at Augusta.
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The report that the %czarowitch is to
marry the Princess Maude of Wales is
doubted, as they are first cousins. Since
the duke of Aosta married his niece mem
bers of royal families have a large circle
OF eligible persons to choose from.
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a Detroit man, IN the curse OF a brief
but enterprlsing career, has been the hus-
band Of thirty. three women. And yet
there are foolish society agitators who in
the face Of such courageous devotion to
the welded state, are asserting that mar
rage is a failure.
Mr.. Jackson, the husband of the late
lamented authoress Helen Hunt Jackson,
uTng mn rrt.I raaA-tl,v 81 =. 1.-.--. =. I-I
orado Springs. He married a niece of
Mrs. jackson, III H" is literally COW
cred with visiting cards left by tourists
who climb the mountain near Colorado
Springs to visit the last resting place of
this remarkable IN
The Empress Eugene in reply to the
pressing invitation of King Humbert to
come to the wedding of the Duke of
Aosla and Princess Letitia. says that she
made a VOW at the death of the prime
imperial never to appear at a fete of any
kind, and never to take off her deep
mourning. The bridal couple will visit
her at Chiselhurst.
Mrs. William O'Sullivan Dimpel i -
becoming a great actress. All the Il
York papers are interviewing her aby.
her family affairs.
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la an old magazine we find it stated
that until the year ITO this law was in
force in England: whatsoever shall en-.
tice into bonds of matrimony any male
subject of her majesty's by means Of
rouge, white paint. Spanish cotton. steel
corsets, crino!ine, high heeled shoes, or
false hips shall be prosecuted for witch
craft aud the marriage declared null and
void" IL is very evident, however, that
the law did not do away with the articles
against which it was leveled, and, doubt
less if the law were now in force either in
England or here a great many witches
syould be discovered. Perhaps this ex
plains the origin OF the word witch as APP
piled in an endearing manner by lovers to
their sweethearts as: You little witch"
etc.
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Mrs. Cleveland is having a fine time at
Saranac lake. Much of her time is spent
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