Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-04-19
INFLUENCE Of THINGS.
a Good Story OF the Present Day With th6
Moral Omitted.

h Good Story Of tho Present Day with thO
Moral Omitted.
There was once q lady, sober In
mind and sedate in manner, whose
plain dress exactly represented her de-
sire to be inconspicuous, to do good,
to improve every day of her life in
actions that should benefit her kind.
She was serious person. inclined to
Improving conversation, TO the read
ing of bound books that cost at least
a dollar and half (ffteen cents of
which she gladly contributed to the
auther), and she had distaste for
the gay society which was mainly
iutter of ribbons and talk and pretty
faces; and when she meditated, as she
did III her spare moments, her heart
was sore over the frivolity of life and
the emptiness Of fashion. She longed
to make the world better, and without
any priggishness she set it an example
of simplicity and sobriety, of cheerful
acquiescence in plainness and incon-
spicuousness.
One day-it was iii the autumn
this lady had occasion to buy a new
hat. From great number offered
her she selected a red one with
a dull red plumb. 1t did not agree
with the rest of her apparel; it
did not fit her apparent character.
What impulse led to this selection
she could not explain. She was not
tired of being good, but something in
the jauutiness OF the hat and the color
pleased her. If it were q temptation,
she did not intend to yield to it, but
she thought she would take the hat
home and try it. Perhaps her nature
felt the need of little warmth. The
hat pleased her still more when she
got 1t home and put it on and surveyed
herself in the mirror. Indeed, there
was new expression in her face that
corresponded to the hat. She put it
off and looked at it. There was some-
thing almost humanity winning and
temptations in it. In short, she kept
1t, and when she wore it abroad she
was not conscious of its incon gruity to
herself or to her dress, but of the in
congruity Of the rest Of her apparel to
the hat. which seemed to have a sort
OF intelligence of it's own, at least a
power of changing and conforming
things to itself. BY degrees one article
after another in the lady's wardrobe
was laid aside. and another substituted
for it that answered to the demanding
spirit of the hat. In little while this
plain lady was not plain any more, but
most gorgeously dressed, and possessed
with the desire to be in the height of the
fashion. 1t came to this. that she had
q tea gown made out of d. Window.cur-
tain with a hamboyant pattern.
Solomon in all his glory would have
been ashamed of himself in her pres
ence.
But this was not all. Her DISPOSE
ton. her ideas, ner whole life, were
changed. She read nothing but stories
in paper covers. In place of being
sedate and sober-minded, she was
frivolous to excess; she spent most of
her time with women who liked to
'frivol." She kept Lent in the most
expensive way, so as to make the i'm
preston upon everybody that she was
better than the EXTREMIST kind of Lent.
From liking the sedatest company she
passed'to liking the gayest society and
the most fashionable method of get
ting rid of her time. Nothing what
ever bad happened to her. and she is
now an ornament to society.-Charles
Dudley Warner, in Harper's Magazine.
"A good meat soup needs no thick
ening, but If more body is liked flour
is the simplest addition. Most impor-
tant Of all additions to soup are those
which need IL little more time to pre-
pare, but are worth the trouble if the
soup is to be the principal part OF the
dinner.
---Lawyer-"You want suit brought
against defendant for branch NJ