San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-06-16
BROOKLYN LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
BROOKLYN, June 10, 1888.

Daily LIGHT:
Four women, who have not been
educated in politics, and who find the
questions of tariff, free trade and pro-
lection hard nuts to crack, would re-
commend Col. Robert f. IngersolPs
most able exposition of these subjects.
Col. Ingersoll is conservative pro-
tectionist, but it is not for his opinions
that 1 advise my sisters to study his
article, bu5 for the light it throws
upon subjects which the average
woman has not yet had time to be-
come acquainted with. The New York
"Press" of Sunday, June 3rd, contain
ed this interview. Back numbers can
probably be had upon application.
What punishment is sufficient for
the wretch who left his wife's dead
body at the Grand Central depot
almost a week unknown and I'M
claimed, while he went on spree
with the money his wife's relatives
had provided for her interment. WO-
men who have lived with drunken
husbands will congratulate this poor
soul upon her escape, and envy her
her peaceful sleep at the Grand Cen
trail. No more fOrcible temperance
lecture was ever preached than this.
Girls, beware of the men who are in
the habit of using intoxicating liquors,
and do not deluge yourselves with the
notion that you can effect cure. Such
things have been done, but ninety
nine out of hundred fail utterly.
Miss Georgia Cayvan, one of our
most sterling actresses, and great
favorite with the New York public,
has just made rOusing speech in
favor of women as managers of thea
tres. Miss Cayvan, who has been
feted and adored, and besought on
bending knees to enter into the holy
bonds of wedlock, has persistently
refused. "When / marry, if ever l
do" she told friend, II am under
the impression that it will be when l
have finished with the stage. Matri-
mony and the drama are somewhat
irreconcilable. To me marriage is not
the end and aim of life.n
A letter just received from an "anX-
ious mother" in Richmond, Va,
gives me the opportunity of saying a
word about the care of infants in hot
weather, and especially "second sum-
mer babies.n To begin to be careful
in regard to a child's diet, when it be-
gins to be ill, is better than not to be
careful at all, but it is somewhat too
late. During the cool months it is
not necessary to be quite so particular
in this respect, but mothers should
make provision for the heated term
before the time of trial arrives. The
infant that is carefully and properly
fed during June, will probably 60
through July and August safely, pro-
vided the same pains are taken in the
matter of diet Milk, strangely
enough, seems the rankest poison to
many teething little ones. They can
not digest it, and the result is, waste
of tissue, marasmus or cholera infan-
tum. Our best physicians recon-
mend for such cases Carmick's Food,
and have known it to work Won
ders with babies who were really very
ill. But 1.-THE ounce Of prevention"
theory is the correct one. Begin with
this pure and nourishing food before
the little ones become Frustrated.
Give it regularly, and give nothing
else excepting occasional drinks of
water that has been boiled and
cooled.
The jurors in the trial of the Diss De
Bars are sworn to all who believe in
the Bible, and especially in the Witch
of Endor story. The theory of the de-
Tense is religious persecution, and
this probably accounts for the peculiar
method! -
The people of Omaha are so preju-
diced against "Mother Hubbards,"
that they have lately arrested two
women for wearing these gowns on
the street. This loose robe was never
intended for a promenade toilet, but it
is surely no crime to wear it as such.
The most that can be said is that it is
not in good taste. Mother Hubbardsn
are just as popular as ever in the east
Kate Epson Clarke, one of our most
charming writers, does all her liter
airy work in Mother Hubbard. Ella
Wheeler Wilcox wears modified and
artistic Hubbard, and Mrs. NJ. F.
Butte, one of our most popular writers
for children, and the author of Lit
tie Fence of Trust,n looks as sweet as
a peach in her. pretty flowing went
to the Cupboard drapery. By the
way, this lady has written charming
poem ON the "Mother Hubbard,n
which has been translated into French
for one of our Paris journals.
Apropos of fashions, bustles are now
entirely tabooed. At the present mo-
ment there is nothing in the world so
desirable as the hollow back-the
deeper the hollow the more stylish the
figure. Small reeds are worn quite
low down ON the back of the skirt.
Small waists have also come under
the ban of fashionable displeasure.
Among the many causes which pre-
wont nnnScuIar ayarciSa tho commas