Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-10-05
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Queen victoria's favorite color is blne.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt pays her
physician $40, 900 a year.
Emily Faithful decries the ''shabby
genteel" idea that work is degrading for
women.
Miss Edna Dean Proctor has given a
drinking fountain to her native town,
Henniker, N. II.
Miss Ames, daughter of the governor
of Massachusetts,, is said TO look wonder
fully like the Princess OF Wales.
Jenny is one of the baptismal names
of the new empress of Germany. That
has pleasant, homelike sound.
The death of ex-Empress Carlotta, Of
Mexico, may occur at any moment in
Belgium. She is rapidly sinking and has
become entirely helpless.
Some forty three descendants of Re-
becca Nourse ''the pious witch of 1602,'
picnicked in her honor at Danvers Gem
ter. Mass, the other day.
Miss Agnes Brown Blackwell, daugh-
ter Of Rev. Antoinette l.. Brown Black
well, was awarded the highest prize in
the life class at Cooper Union at its
late annual examination.
A school of housekeeping has been
started in Brussels by the countess Of
Flanders. Forty girls there receive a
practical training in domestic economy,
marketing, cooking, mending and laun-
dering.
An Englishman thus describes Queen
Margherita of Italy in the Pail Mall Ga
zette: Her face is SO spontaneously in
teresting and yivacious that it might be-
long to any high born lady untrammeled
by cares of state. Her smile, her bow,
her ready words are the perfection of
royal art, or, perhaps rather the I'M
learned perfection of royal nature"
The Journal du Havre has found the
acte de naissance of Sarah Bernhard.
She was born in 1S43 at Havre. Her
mother was the daughter Of Berlin ocu-
list, and her father was governments
official, who afterward committed sui
eide. Sarah's original name was Rosalie.
This disposes Of the story that she was
Dutch.
Princess Irene of HeSse, who has Just
married Prince Henry Of Prussia, has re-
ceived a thorough housewives training.
She can sew, make bread, and do every.
thing she would have to do were she
fated to become the wife Of a poor man.
All the Processes of Hesse were trained
In this way by their mother, the late
grand duchess, daughter of Queen Vio-
toria
The French minister Of war has de-
cided to award the cross Of the Legion Of
Honor to Nine Drouan at the coming
July fete. She was the faithful attend
ant Of the Fifty ninth regiment Of in
fantry during the war of 1870, behaving
with the utmost valor during the battles
about Metz and attending to the officers
and men, even W zen they were under
heavy fire, until he was taken prisoner
Candio.- - CoE. payera.
There is one important test which, as
far as memory serves, we have never
known applied to candidates, VIZ;
Prompt payment of debts. Does he pay
his debts? But, as some men would pay
who honestly are unable to do so, the test
may be expressed somewhat differently.
Has the candidate the reputation of be.
ing good paymaster, or, If from mis-
fortune or mistreatment by other men,
he is unable to pay, does he give suffi-
cient proof of willingness and purpose
to pay, and that as soon as he can hon
estly do sol A man who will evade,
dodge, refuse or decline to pay just
debts should not be sent to the legisla-
ture or congress, or pat in any office of
honor or trust, high or low. In sitting
candidates it would not be out of place
for voters to inquire: Does he pay his
debts? Does he try TO pay9-Columbia
Is. O. Christian Neighbor.