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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

Dinner parties ate the specially Of
modern society balls are not popular
except with the dancing people" OF
both sexes; receptions everybody hates ;
but dinner parties are generally liked,
and iii London, as Il rule, very well
done, though they are. generally speak,
ing. too large, The perfect dinner
party should not exceed eight or ten,
table; the seats, moreover, should be
much lower and easier and more capa-
cious than they usually are. Dinners
of twenty or thirty people are terrible !;
every one is bored at them, and, though
they may be banquets fit for the gods,
and cOrreeS inevitable in the season,
vet they are wearisome burdens to both
host and guests.
Dinner-giving is one of the obliga,
tons of social life, and, like other forms
of pleasure which have become obliga-
tons, tends to become tiresome. 1t is
the habit to be ddnS lie train; it is
fashionable never to have an instant of
leisure or repose; and 50 people dine
out. or give dinners most evenings of
their lives.
1t may he said that the dinner party
has killed the salon. The dinner par
ty and the clubs together have made
such salons as were open i'll Benjamin
Constants days nowhere to be found !;
nowhere in London certainly, possibly
nowhere in Europe, even in Paris. The
lateness of our dinner hour makes men
and women indisposed to go afterward
where they can only listen or converse
The whole tenor of modern life makes
people impatient of any form of enter
tainment where they are not very we'll
fed. They are cynically critical of the
goods provided for them, and if any one
thing is amiss that one thing is merci
lessly noted and treasured up, and
made game of in half a dozen other
houses. There is neither hospitality
nor gratitude for hospitality in our
days. If the party be dull, or the me-
MI n blunder, we are ineXorably wrath
full at our time having been wasted at
such n failure, and we go away early
and irritated, wondering why people
will do things at all if they cannot do
them we'll. This is perhaps undeniable !;
hut is it not natural when there were
half dozen other invitations which we
refused for the sake of this one which
has turned out 50 i'll Ouuld.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

The Spartan youth were trained
from infancy for soldiers life. Then
muscle might was the great power.
Nowadays brain power is the acknowl-
edged might. Mind must contend with
mind. This is the law in every phase
of life. Why, then, do not people do
as much for the mental as the ancients
did for the physical man? We are a
common-sense people; yet, with all our
common-sense, we have let the money
fever SO bedim our vision that whatever
will not Immediately and actually pan
out dimes and dollars is looked on as
useless. What athlete would be so fool
ish as to enter into competition without
"training?" Our professional baseball
players, runners, wrestlers, etc, devote
time to preparing and conditioning
themselves previous to attempting in
public the feats which they make a
speciality. Yet parents expect their girls
and boys to rise on the ladder of fame,
while they condemn the very things cal
culated to give them brain strength to
do so.-St. Louis Republican.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04
THE LITTLE FOLKS


There was young man, you n,ay think very
strange,
But somehow or other little aeranged;
And if it he true then as have been told,
He was once a mere infant, bat age made him
old.
His face was the oldest that ever WAS seen.
His mouth stood acrOss 'twixt his nose and his
chin,
And whenever he spoke it was with his voice,
And in talking lie always made some sort OF
noise.
please,
He never worked hard when he lived at his ease
Two legs he had got to make him complete
But what was mostIstrange, ut each end We're his
feet.
His legs as folks sag, he could use at his Will.
And when he was walking he never stood still
If you had but seen him, you'd laugh till you
For one leg or t'otllor would always go fret,
Another strange thing as eer did meet,
Was when he hungry he always did eatS
He drank when he was dry, and then, if rou'C
note,
Whatever he drank always went down his throst
If this whimsical fellow had river to cross
If he couldn't get over he staid where he was;
And though he ne'er went off the dry groudd,
30 great was his luck that he never was drowned
Another strange thing about him II tell
For when he sick he was always nnwell;
He gave deep sigh, then oped his mouth wide,
And somehow or other this odd fellow died
But the reason he died, and the cause of hi,
death,
Was simply, poor soul, for tho want of NOR.
breath;
And now he is left in the cold earth to moder
II he had lived day longer, he'd have been II day
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04
FOR THE LADIES.
Matters Grave and Gay in Which Our
Fair Readers Take an Especial
Interest.
A Couple Of Columns Prepared Solely
for Their Instruction and
EdlficatieE.


SPECIAL NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE /
This is a month of weddings in thi-
city. June has of late years lieer ia
roreJ II. that wat, while the superstition
against May as an unlucky month for
marriages has steadily grown, and this
season we have had mote hHtn!rence
menia "f "ediock IN June than ever be-
fore in any month. Nearly all the
brides are in bridal dress The fashion
of appearing ct the altar in travel.
ing costume Seems TO have gone out of
vogue. There is a sameiiess IN the
garb of tur brides, however, that IL hot
found " Any other sort OF pretentious
lress. Current custom says that a
bride must have All air Of ifiodesty, and,
consequently, her bodice must reach to
her throat, and her sleeves must extend
to her wrists, The material must be
white, either satin or silk, and the ira
ditional tulle veil is not to he omitted.
The bride III the picture Is d good rep
reseiitation of the fashionable average.
Combined with the glossy principal
fabric are often seen silk null, crepe
lisse. and othet Varieties Of lace, and
waist and on the skirt. In a few in
stances the neck opens in N-shape,
showing little more than the throat,
and this space is neither filled in nor
trimmed nt the edges. But, as fu1e,
very high neck waists are worn like
those in the illustration: There are
flowing trains in ptincesse fashion to
some of the bridal dresses, but that is
optional to the taste of the girl. If there
be train, the tulle veil is long enough
to reach to the end of it, but if the skirt
just reaches to the ground, the veil
stops foot or so higher Bouquets made
entirely of some one kind of flower are
carried, with long bows of ribbon at
tached.
What is called the English style of
church wedding is being copied here
pretty generally, The bridegroom en-
ters the church, with the officiating
clergyman, from side door, and takes
his place alongside the minister inside
the altar rail He stands there five min
utes or 50, awaiting the bride. That
seems like the girl going to the fellow
to be married, and SO not exactly right,
but it is the fashionable mode, and that
is sufficient, Bridesmaids are dispensed
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with in at least half of the current June
weddings In their stead, professions
are made up variously In one of this
weeks instances there first marched
up the center aisle six ushers, behind
whom came sister of the bride and
girl of perhaps fourteen, denOminated
"the lady in waiting" Next was the
bride, from whom our picture was
sketched, and she leaned on the arm of
her father. The rear was brought up
by the father of the bridegroom and
mother of the bride. All these grouped
themselves rather picturesquely, and
by careful Encouragement, in the chan
eel, into which the bridegroom came
just at the right moment to give his
arm to the bride as she reached the
head of the aisle.
1t is not every day that one has the
privilege of buying flowers of a great
heiress. Such an occasion was a char
ity picnic on Washington Heights,
few days ago, where the very pink and
perfection of our swell danes and dam
sells condescended to take part in vari-
GUS devices for raising money. This
sketch is from life, and represents
millionairess as she sat by small
stand on the lawn offering punches of
garden flowers at dollar per five
cents worth. Her toilet represents a
style that will be more or less in vogue
this summer at the watering places, its
principal feature being the wide Shout
der wrap of lace.
The ensuing drawing was made as the
writer sat in IL Broadway window, and
it represents two rather poorer but not
less proud young women on the prom
enade. They are little too jaunty,
you say. That may be true, and vet
they were nice girls, costumed quite
within the limits of this summers fash
ions. and good samples of what you will
see if you go to the fashionable summer
resorts, although they are undeniably
somewhat too pronounced for the city.
Their contrasts of black and white
fabrics, as l have pointed out in previ-
GUS letters, are distinction of the sea-
sons style. Speaking of extravagances
of the promenade, the parasols now in
use are indeed fearfully and wonder
fully made, and are quite enough to
strike terror into the male breast. OF
the remarkable productions that are now
being displayed in the shop windows, I
refrain from saying anything in detail,
for I feel afraid that my pen might run
riot were to venture upon descriptions
of the eccentric specimens that have
seen. But it is of the handles that would
speak, for these threaten to become al
most danger this season, and the un-
wary will, fear, suffer all kinds OF
torments from the exceptionally long
sticks affixed to the fashionable para.
sol. Not one woman in ten ever car
ries this article of summer equipment
in proper manner, and / am, there
fore, anticipating that ones walks
abroad this summer will be attended by
the pleasurable excitement of lodging
these very long sticks that are per-
fectly certain to be carried at all kinds
of dangerous angles by their fair pos
SCISSORS believe we also owe this
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

MttttoNAIREss ANb FLOWER GIRL.
ing gowns with tile shapelin,ss of reg
ulaf dresses: In other words,
the. waists have the hour-glass
outlines deniatided bT present notions
of symmetry, while the arrangement Of
the loose portions of the robe conform
nearly enough to the ancient modes.
In the matter Of the humanl form
feminine, dressmaker of this city de-
clares she has made the interesting dis
covery that women are both taller and
bigger than they were some quarter of
century ago. She bases her belief
on the measurements kept by her
mother and herself IN tile way Of bust
tiess during long stretch of years:
Twenty or twenty-five years ago, ac-
c6rding to this authority, tile average
waist of d young woman was
twenty inches; while eighteen was
"genteel" size, and some went
down to seventeen, sixteen and
even fifteen inches. Quite a buxoR
matron generally measured twenty-ona
inches. But, Notwithstanding the con-
tinual cry of mankind about tight
lacing; we have changed all that.
olIIS, HOWauaNs, VI twenty VI t"O-uhu
twenty years old, average waists about
twenty three inches; while; If other
wise proportioned they are rather
proud of twenty five and tweiity-six or
even more. This observing dressmaker
also assures us that women are taller
by two inches than their grandmothers
were. l am told, also, that it is fact
that the Americans are the biggest
people in the world, taking the average,
with the single exception of the Pata-
gonians.
However superior to tile vahities and
fOllies of our ancestors we may imagine
ourselves to be growing in these prac-
tical, matter-of-fact days, fear that we
shall never persuade ourselves to res
tlounce all attempts to improve upon
Dame Nature in the matter of personal
appearance. Not only are we invited
nowadays to add q cubit to our
stature" when necessary, by means OF
artfully contrived cork heels Worn in
side the boots, but We are actually
called upon to correct such defects as
we may believe to exist in the shape of
our very features themselves. l. saw i'll
the Office of an expert surgeon an app
paratus that he had made for the good
of a particular patient, an apparatus
for Strengthening crooked nose. 1t
consists of skull cap, to which is at
tached machine which is able to apply
the desired amount of pressure to the
wrong" side of a crooked nose, and so
to persuade the refractory organ to oc-
cnpy its proper position in the middle
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04
Gayety Among the French.

The Irish are the gayest and most
underfed people in the world, save the
Spaniards, who are happy on crust of
bread, an onion and cup of water.
Goldsmith remarked that the gayety of
the Frenchman was in an inverse ratio
to the weight of his purse. This is true
in our time as in his. Nothing is more
dull, more formal, more insipid, more
inane, than social evening gathering
of French who usually dine on trente-
six plats. They have no life in them
selves, and have to get bouffe opera
singers to stir them up. And even at
laughing at these they are dull. On
the other hand, there is always fun and
go among the poor, hard-worked French.
1t is this class which furnishes priest
esses to the laughter-loving goddess,
who sweep here the wealth of the world
to her altar. Mile. Schneider, Jeanne
Granier, Leonide Leblanc, Theresa
Judic and Milly Meyer rose from poy-
erty to opulence.-LOndOn Truth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04
Chicago and Her NEWSPAPERS

The country gets it's impression 6f
Chicago tatgelF from the Chicago
newspapers In my observation, the
impression is wrong The press rs sble'
vigorous, voluminous, full of enter
prise. alert, spirited; its news columns
are Marvellous in quantity, if not in
quality; nowhe+e are important events,
public meetings and dettioast rations
more fully, graphically, and satisfaftot'
ily reported; it has keen and competent
writer's in several departments of critl-
cism-- theatrical, musical, and occasion
ely literary; Independence, with less
Of personal bias than in some other
cities, She editorial pages Of most of
the newspapers are bright, sparkling,
witty. not seldom spiced with knowing
drollery, and strong, vivid, well-in-
formed and well-w1itten, in the discus
sion Of public questions, with an
allowance always to be made for the
personal equation" in dealing with
particular men and measures-as little
pkovinciSl in this respect as any press
in the country.
But it lacks tons, elevation OF pur-
pose; it represents to the world the
inferior elements of a great city rather
than the better, under a mistaken no.
Il Il in the press and the public, not
confined to Chicago, as to what Is
news" 1t cannot escape the charge of
being highly sensational; that is, the
elevation into notoriety of mean persons
and mean events Ivy every rhetorical and
pictorial device. Day after day the lead
ing news, the most displayed and most
conspicuous, will be of vulgar men and
women, and all the more expanded If it
have in it spice of scandal. This sort
Of reading creates a diseased appetite,
which requires stronger dose daily to
satisfy. And people who read it lose
their relish for higher, more decent, If
less piquant, news of the world. OF
course the Chicago newspapers are not
by any means alone in this course; 1t Is
a disease of the time. Even New York
has recently initiated successfully this
feature of what is called Western jour
nalism.
But it is largely from the Chicago
papers that the impression has gone
abroad that the city is pre-eminent in
divorces, pre-eminent in scandals, that
its society is fast, that it is vulgar and
pretentious, that it's tone is "shoddy, "
and its culture sham. The laws OF
Illinois in regard to divorces are not
more lax than i'll some Eastern States,
and divorces are not more numerous
there of residents according to the
population) than in some Eastern
towns; but while the press of the latter
give merely an official line to the court
separations, the Chicago papers parade
ali the details and illustrate them with
pictures. Many people go there to get
divorces, because they avoid scandal at
! their homes, and because the Chicago
courts offer unttsnal facilities in being
open every month in the year.
1t is curious also that the newspa-
pers, or some of them, take pleasure in
hooking at the culture of the town.
Outside papers catch this spirit and
the Culture" of Chicago is the butt of
the photographers. 1t is a singular atti-
tuds for newspapers to tlke regarding
their own city.--Chdrles Dudley War;
ner, IN Harpe,'s Magazine.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

"I1l tell you what We'll do, Bessie
said Mabel, nothing dautted bv her sis
ter's repellaiAt airt "let's sit in the ham
mock td44etAeT and make little nest for
kitty between us. I'm sorrv didn't
think of it before" Pussy purred with
all her might, az though she understood
and Quite approved of the plan. and
Bessie's face frightened, but still she
did not move.
Come" said Mabel. who by this time
had grown very enthusiastic, i'll her gen
erous attempt TO make peace, ''you get
ia hrst with kitty while / hold the
hammock"
BESSIE fou!,i not resist her any longer.
and The smiles broke all over her face
as she ran to Mabel's side and said,
"No. sister. vop cit down first. then
+ can climb In. and Won NAV hold nv
Kitty If Won want to-
Bessie's forgiveness was slow in com.
ing, but when it came it w:s whole
hearted and comrl4ie. If was the
kind of forgiveness that also foreets.
So they sat side BY side, and if Nc,,
have ever sat with SOME ,,re else NJ A
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

From classic times, down to the conl
mencef1,ent of this century, it can hardly
be said that this branch of meteorology
made any advance. Few, ii any, new
prognostics had been discovered, and
neither their physical explanation nor
their meteorological significance had
been found out. But about eighty years
ago some physical explanations were
given. 1t was found that the air al
ways contained q certain quantity OF
uncondensed vapof, and means were
invented for measuring this amount ac-
curately. From this the nature and
conditions of the formation of dew were
discovered, and also that before many
cases of rain the air became more
charged with vapor This latter fact
gave the explanation of several rain
prognostics. For instance, when walls
sweat, stones grow black, and clouds
form on hill-tops, rain may be expected
almost all the world over.
But even when these reasons had been
discovered the science tagged. A large
number of ain-prognostics could rot
be shown by any means to depend on
an increase of moisture, and, as vapor
cannot grow in the air, SOME explana-
ton was needed to account for its vari-
able quantity And even when, in a
general way, the prognostic had been
explained, no clew whatever had been
found for what we may call the meteoro-
logical significance. What was the re-
lation of the damp to the rain? Why
did the prognostic sometimes fail?
WHY are there many rain-prOgnostics
associated with tolerably dry air?
Why is not all rain preceded by the
same set of prognostics? To all these
questions no answer could be given.
Prognostics had almost fallen into dis
repute; they were considered no part
of science, and had been supposed to be
only suitable for ruStics and sailors.
So the subject remained till the in
PRODUCTION of synoptic charts. Then it
was soon seen that in temperate regions
the broad features of weather depend
on the shape of the isobaric lines, and
later on it was shown-the author be-
lieves, mainly by himself-that nearly
all prognostics have definite place in
some shape of isobars, and that all the
above questions, formerly insoluble, re-
ceive a ready explanation. 1t has also
been demonstrated that prognostics
can never be superseded for use on
board ship, and that even in the high
est developments of weather forecast
ing by means of electric telegraph,
prognostics often afford most valu-
able information. Popular Science
MOnthlU.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04
She Knew Him.

"You know the defendant in this
case, do you?" asked a Kansas lawyer
of female native of the soil.
"Know which 2" she asked.
"The defendant, Jake Lynch"
"Do know Jake Lynch?"
yes"
"You want to know if 1 know Jake
Lynch-well, if that amt a good one.
Why, mister, the Lynch family am"
Cant you say yes or no."
"Why, Jake Lynch's mother an my
stepdad's father was once first cousins,
am"
"Then you know him.
"Who-Jake Lynch? Me know Jake
Lynch? You're stranger in these
parts, amt you?"
THAT has nothing to do with the
case. If you know Jake Lynch, say
so"
"If I know him! Lemme tell you
that Jake Lynch's birthday and my
brother Hiram's is on the same day,
AMI"
You know him, of course, then?'
"Who-Jake Lynch? Ask Jake if l
know him! Ask him if he was ever in
terdooced to Betty SHELTON"
II don't care to ask him anything. |
simply want to ask you if Jake Lynch
is known to You personally.
"Pussonly? Well, don't know what
you mean by 'pussonly,' but if you
want to know if I know Jake an if he
knows me, can tell you in mighty few
words. Jake Lynch's father an my
father"
Now, 1 want you to say yes or
no."
Thought you wanted me to say If j
knew Jake Lynch"
chats just what do want"
"Well, then, femme alone an I'll tell
you all about it. Jake Lynch was born
in IHeeany an l was born in the same
county, am"
"And of course you knew him?"
"Who-Jake Lynch Do know Jake
Lynch, when the very boss he rid here
on was one he traded my man span OF
Young steers for? Why, man, Jake's
wife was Ann Elizy Skiff, an her an
me is the same age to day am
"That will do. / see that You do
know him."
know him? Know Jake? Why,
man"
"That will do"
"Why, I was married on Chewsday
an Jake was married the next day. an
his Oldest boy an my oldest girl is most
the same age, an"
"That will do. "--DetrOt Free Press,
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In ROStOn, Mass.

Miss Cult hear that you are an ad-
mirer of Russian literature, Mr.. Hub
son.
Mr.. HUDSON - Why, really - pom
honor, you know, l haven't read q
word
Miss Cult@rhat's strange. I was
told the other day that YOU just de-
voured Caviare with the greatest de-
light, Puck,
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Older and Wiser.

Confirmed Bachelor GLOW time does
fly, Miss Seaside! Why, it was ten years
ago that you refused me on this spot"
Miss Seaside (who wishes she hadn't
$50 long as that! ! was young and
foolish then, Mr.. Smith"
Bachelor-"But we are both olde- and
wiser now. "-Haroayd Lomp0OH.
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The Inquiring Mind.

'apa, don't men pray fo- sue
cess before going into battle?
Papa-Yes, my son.
B.-Well, do pugilists pray for sue
cess before going into the ring?
P.-No. think not.
A.-Why don't they?
P.-When men are going to merely
pummel each other, prayer is not con-
sidered necessary. 1t is only when
they are going to kill each other that
Heaven is appealed to for help'--Ros-
ton Courier.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

Now IS the time when we take up
our once wild animal rugs and put
them carefully away.
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A GOOD many women who have mar
ried dry-goods clerks have got two
yards of illusion as premium.-Pitts-
burg Chronicle,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

UNDREssED kid gloves, embroidered
on the back, have taken the most &C.
centric turn of late.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-08-04

SOME new conceits in correspondence
cards and fashionable stationery are al
ready exhibited.
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formidable fashion to Parisian fad,
the Directoire craze on the other side
of the ocean having suggested the re-
Riva1 of latge-headed, canes for ladies'
Use, Of which these elongated palaso1-
handles are evidently the precursors.
Matin robes are house dresses that
combi1e the loose drapelias of morn