San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-08-24
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The Fair Sex.


When two women are bosom friends or
deadly enemies, you may always ask, Where
is the mann
Women live and die by their passions.
Men kill their passions, but not themselves.
The love of certain women is deadly; but
most men become accustomed to it, as they
do to slow poison.
Some men take women as they do cham
payne; but others indulge in them as they do
in absinthe
The lives of women can be divided into
three epochs: They dream Of love; they ex'
perienCe it. and they regret it.-To-day.
------t-&ty VS.. Horses.
The whole running expenses of electric
cars are one-third less than the expenses Of
horse cars. Besides, the nuisance of large
stables is dispensed with, and there is no need
of storage for hay and grain Cars need
less space of track, and the pavement is not
broken up by the incessant tramp Of horses.
But the point of perhaps most importance to
the general public is the decrease of noise.
With rubber pavements, the use Of electric
cars, the abolition of the steam whistle in
city limits, the suppression of bell ringing in
church towns and the restriction of hucksters'
cries in the city it becomes far more inhabit-
able for well people and less intolerable for
the sick-St. Louis Giobe-Democrat.
johnson and Lamb.
johnson did not look on himself as solemn
man. ~ sometimes say more than mean,
in jest" he said, land people are apt to be-
lievs me serious" Rather oppressive to him
must have been the serious spirit in which
most Of his contemporaries were inclined to
take him. And nothing did Charles Lamb
more deprecate than to be literally inter
preted when in his testing moods. ''f you
wrest my words beyond their fair construc-
ton, it is you, and not /, that are the April
fool" is one of his protests on the matter.
In both this native buoyancy of spirit, ex-
isting along with constitutional melancholy,
was apt TO break forth inopportunely, in in
considerable sallies which with billiards might
pass for want Of feeling-as when Lamb
would jest upon the subject of insanity, that
black and ever threatening thunder cloud
from which the bolt had fallen which de-
stroyed his peace; or as when the old doctor,
after that extraordinary frolic with his young
friends, Beauslerk and Langton, the details
of which have been brought out for us in
such life like relief, turned off Garrick's sub
sequent remonstrance with the sly comment,
"He burst not do such thing His wife
would not let him." an allusion which to
almost morbid regret he so long had felt for
the lost of his own wife.
1t was with more reckless abandon, but
at the cost of a heavier conscience than
Charles Lamb, that DR.. johnson INDUCED in
such rambles; the sorer stricken nature pos
sessing the art, as few Of the sanest spirits
have ever possessed it, of distinguishing be-
tween what was allowable for him in the way
of diversion and amusement, and what his
better angel absolutely forbade. Yet both
considered it a duty to be gay Entertain
yourself as you can with small amusements
or light conversation" writes johnson to a
lady who had been ILL., land let nothing but
your devotion ever make you serious" 1t
was not his devotion that could make Lamb
serious. Nay, rather, it formed perhaps
part of his devotion to be merry. Speaking
of an actor who had exchanged the surplice
of a cathedral chorister for the robe of
motley, he supposeS that cheerful heart, if
kind and humble withal, may be part of
sanctity-a remark in perfect keeping with
.ohnsons eulogy on Garrick: ''Garrick was
a very good man. the cheerfulest man of his
age. "-Temple Bar.