The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

in that family is that the sister is good swim
mer, can drive tandem, plays tennis like an ath-
who had reached the age of twenty would be
TON" to his family. or else he would apply to
the Legislature and have his name changed. This
sweet specimen of humanity also writes poetry,
and he sends no end Of it to his lady friends at
the different watering-places. He was presented
to me, and regret to say that, though come of
several generations of gentlewomen, could not
be civil to him. Even my maternal parent, who
has heart that goes out to sick children; and
and love stories. admired his fancy work, but
said contidentially she didn't think she would
like boy of hers to be like that, and the that
was said with the emphasis that only Quaker
training can give.
WOMEN WHO CARRY "REFREsHERs."
Who else is here? Well will you be Mortified
if tell you that have seen more women with
TASKS who didn't hesitate to drink whisky than
have ever seen in my life2 Whisky is not drink
for women, especially when it is taken straight
and mouthful of water after it. There is some
thing about it that would seem to indicate that
in her own heart, If in no other way, the woman
who drank whisky had gotten pretty low down;
To be sure, / don't like it mysef.its smell
being about the worst thing know of-but this
flask business is getting to be little too much Of
a good thing, and what's more the women are
showing It on their faces. Just remember, my
draw out a daintily engraved silver flask, pour
out drink of whisky, and toss it off, there will
certainly follow intiamed eyes and nose-well,
powder will not hide its color
whisky shows on women quicker than any
it draws the eyeIids up until the eyes become
mere specks. One young woman who thought
she would pack her TASKS in her trunk had her
most beauteous tea-gown ruined because one
flask broke, and plush and whisky do not form q
desirable combination. One would have thought
that after this she would have foresworn the
tempting drink, but, bless your heart. that isn't
the American girl. She simply declared she
would never be such fool as to carry a glass
flask again, or IL she did 1T would be in her
pocket and not in her trunk.
WHISPER OF A SUMMER EVENING.
The feather boas are very much worn here.
They certainly are becoming, but the other even
ing when sat in the dark trying to make out
what TolstoI wrote "Kreutzer Sonata" for,
whether it was to show he was a crazy man. or
that the world was crazy, or simply to advertise
how nasty mans mind could be- heard a
precise tones that only Philadelphia girl can
reach, Charles, II you will kiss me must take
forgot f ali about the S Sonata began to
laugh, and was glad that there were people in
the world who kissed and made love and who
found life worth living.
A woMAN's IDEA OF ToLsTOI.
have stumbled across that vicious, wicked
book every place have gone this summer, and
| have felt as if 1 would like to condemn the man
who wrote it to doing nothing else but reading il
all his life. Naughty? No. Nasty? True
True perhaps of some people, possibly of Tolstoi
himself for no man writes so OF married life
unless he is writing out his own story but while
we hare a President and Congress and all sorts
/ OI BON6IuOIS anu dblOilC9 oL1 Sio dhu uOS'
! tors and other people who lay down laws and eX-
pect the people to obey them, that they don't eX'
purgate this book is something cannot under
! stand. That it should be sold on the news stands
! is disgrace not to these United States particu-
larly for they are not overly respectable, but to
! decency in general. It's just this way; you may
! admire the great beauty of perfect statue in
marble of Adonis, but that is no reason why you
want the man who is shaped like Adonis to &c
/ walking up Fifth avenue in the buff. The move
! that comes out in the spring is the one that
! women read all summer. The one that is shown
| conspicuousy on the news stands of the hotels
! and railway stations is the one that your sister
and mine buys to put in her satchel. Now dc
! you think you want her to read such book al
that? Just bring this thing home, and then you
Why do l drink Tannhauser beer2 Becaus,
1t is the best in the market.