The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-08

a woman who, though ignorant OF books,
was more than commonly clever and had
seen good deal of the world. In some
way misunderstood her name, and when
the check of the first week S board was due,
my husband made it out to, say Mrs. Egg
bert instead of Mrs. Shields. Mrs. Egbert
was the lady who sat next the landlady at
the table, and when | saw that we had con-
fused their names l apologiZed, saying,
| feared she had had some trouble in get
ting her money. oh, no, said Mrs. Shields,
looking up with pride in her own intelli-
gence, i knew just what people do IN such
cases, so signed it with Mrs. Egbert's
name!n
There is a woman in New York who pub
fishes two tiourishing periodicals who re
lates an even more amusing experience.
An acquaintance of hers, she says, went to
bank with check which the teller re-
fused to cash until she was identified.
With beautiful simplicity and confidence
the lady, responding to the official Il don't
know YOU with an offsetting, Neither,
sir, do know you," produced her visiting
card This not being accepted She was
nonplussed, and the difficulties in the way
being finally explained to her and settled,
she carried the check to her FREUD, the
woman publisher, with a confidential,
''Now they say this is certified; won't you
please tell me what they've done to It, any
way!'
HASHEEsu EATER.
There are always new fashions in intoX
icants and none of them tend toward
sweetness and light Occasionally in
the search after novelty somebody goes
back to an old fashion. A woman
who had been reading an cid book
containing "Fitz Hugh Ludlow's
Confessions was moved by it to expert
| nf wit 10.
sheesh, which produces the Hindus dreams.
She says she rirst took, don't dare to Say
how many Ittla pills, for don't want any
body to follow her example. These pro
duced no particular effect except that the
world suddenly began to look rosy and
beautiful.
| She doubled the dose and took walk in
Central park, where she laughed to see
that all the people she met had noses three
yards long. The third time she lay on q
couch and described to another woman
who sat beside her her waking visions
She was walking in a tropical garden,
where slender, lofty minarets and the tur-
rets of mosques cleaned through the trees
Every color was intensified. White
flowers were dazzling in their intensity
and her eyes ached with the luxuri
ant greens. She could see her own flow
ing Indian costume. A moment ana she
ing in ashes. She saw herself now in an
old green sunbonnet and a pink frock with
pantalets, and every time she tried to de-
scribe to the friend, whom she still recog
nized as sitting in the room beside her, heI
grotesque appearance, she laughed till the
tears came. Another minute and she was
walking through an avenue of sphinxes
under a black sky, where stars CLEANED
Each sphinx had torch on its head and
the lines of fires blazed weirdly.
Before the kaleidoscope of visions had
done turning the bell rang for dinner, and
she walked down stairs with the feeling
that between step and step there elapsed
an eternity. There were lifetimes between
bites of bread and butter, though all hel
motions were under control and nobody
observed that she did not act and converse
as usual. A fourth experience on close
afternoon after thunder shower brought
her picture of clouds, of a golden bal
resting on them and of three figures float
ing in space and singing.
The woman who dared venture on these
curious experiments says that the strongest
impression they left on her was a new con.
ception of the possibilities of music anC
color.
THE REAL AMERICAN HOG.
The crusade against bad manners in pub
| lie conveyances is interesting. There
are women who claim to have been con
verted to woman suffrage by the consider
alton that going to the polls could never be
worse than trying to board an elevated cal
with emphatic masculine elbows delivering
blows on every part of ones anatomy
But all these things are as nothing to The
scenes that used to be enacted before The
platform of the city hail station on the
Third avenue line was fenced, openings be
ing left only at the car gateways. On one
occasion, remember, as the train drew III
at the station | had no chance to rise
from my seat before the car window beside
me was hastily opened from the outside ano
three real American hogs, bent on OBJ
tanning seats in advance of those who
| trusted to such conventionalities as doors
for entrance, clambered over my somewhat
demoralized person. But that to which |
believe women object most strongly is the
too assiddous stranger or the street car
conductor who puts his arm about you
when he, unasked, helps you aboard.
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS CONVENTION.
The 1000 people, mostly women, who last
week assembled and discussed the propo-
sition that ''Better demonstrations of the
instantaneous healing of the sick are
needed made the most curious conven
ton. They took themselves so seriously
that for minute one might have imagined
| himself in fad ridden Boston.
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
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