The Arkansaw traveler. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1882-1???, 1889-06-22

tle II could not have cup, or best of all could
not he fed nature intended me to- had rather
lie back and suffer than 20 have that nasty India
rubber tube In my mouth. You never heard OF al
man drinking his mint Iulep out Of IN India rub
Der tube. They give him clean fresh straws, bat
am offered one Of those long black things which
the first tastes and then she maker the remark
that Il In turned little, but not enough 10 hurt
and am expected to take that stuff In my poor
little stomach. Talk about the young men drink
ing absinthe at DePsi There are more babies poi
soned drinking sour milk and being pranced about
In the sun over In Madison Square. do not won-
der that we are q weak Drained generation. A gen.
Grafton fed on the milk from q hundred cows and
summed, as IL IL were dsh that needed TO be dried
is not likely to be healthy over wise. Then
IL were Q baby, should like to have my sex rec
ognized and not be spoken of as he or she indis-
criminately. But, thank goodness will never be
baby again, and the Lord help the little ones who
have got to suffer the heat, worry and bad treat
ment of O hot summer.
About chairs | do not know that chairs ever
get into fight, but think they have been the
cause OF more family troubles than any other article
of furniture. / used to think the day would come
when women would make chairs, and then they
would be comfortable, but have seen two chairs
made by women, and while both were very artistic,
IL must be confessed that both were too fine TO st
on. You q short woman and 20 out to pay o
visit. Your hostess insists upon your having .
comfortable chair, and you sit on one from which
your legs dapgle and only by strenuous efforts
you make them touch the ground. You q tall
woman, with an inclination to be dignifed You
go to see Clementine, your dearest friend, and she
announces that che has the very chair In which to
make you feel ut ease. You are launched then In
what seems . comfortable looking couch because Il
has % many cushions In IL. Your legs sprawl
nothing else expresses It. You not used to get
ting them in artistic positions and they several
feet too long for that beauteous place. You are
big, stout man. You land In the lady's drawing
room and are danced into one Of those delicious
abodes Of the blessed which rock back Immediately
and give you a feeling that at last your hour has
come and that you either made ridiculous for
life or else dead. After this you grow wise
and never take anything but q small cane seat
chair, because you know what that is, and the
worst 1t can do is to break down. Until we learn
how to make comfortable chairs suited to all condi-
tons Of people, there Ia no use saying that we are
civilized nation.
About truth. There Ia nothing in the world that
should be handled with such delicacy. 1t deserves
to be regarded as perfect crystal, and IL gets the
treatment of great, heavy stone jar. l am not an
advocate of telling what is not true but regard
as the vice of the day the telling Of unpleasant
truths. My dears, they always come to US In time,
and you have only made enemy for yourself and
made another woman unhappier than she would
have been by telling her the unpleasant truth that
you regard as your duty. You have gone out of
your way to do 1t. You have constituted yourself
decided busy body, and the fact that You told the
truth rather adds to your sin than takes away from
it. Why need you tell mother what you have
heard of her sons gambling debts? Why need you
tell wife what you have heard of her husbands
inhdelity, and why need You tell the truthful
words that bring hurt and do no good? l firmly
believe that the good God will set that down as
scandal mongering just as much If you told q
lie. Be careful Of all truths but pleasant ones.
Give of them generously, avishly, and behold your
truths will return unto you just as the waters Of
the fountain returned to the fountain again.
About the unlucky woman. Start her out on q
hot day and her face gets red.
Start her out on q cold day and It gets blue.
Let her use q little powder and touch Of rouge.
and women who are hand painted until you don't
know where 1t begins or where 1t ends speak of her
Is % disgustingly made up.
Let her buy frock on her own responsibility