Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-07-05

for novelties, step down to the quay TO see her.
But the Herald of Mercy, mast move, too.
Evangelical excursions up the Seine, to Bou-
gival and such places on SUNDAYS, would be
he right thing during the summer. Boating
costumes, ornamented with biblical texts,
should make a sensation. The broad ribbon
around the sailor hat would be a capital
medium Tor conveying text in condemnation
OF giodiness for instance. Will these people
make proselytesl / doubt il very much. The
french don't like good young men, and the
money spent on the tracts might have been
better spent at home. II is my firm belief
.na1 there Is more wickedness in one SO. re
mile OF London than in the whole Of PARIS
Oh! the would-be converters OF the world!
Their conduct, If they are better than their
fellow creatures is pharisaical. and il they are
no better II is ridiculous. II they are worse. il
Is. some might say. odious but will saw
ni9hiy amusing. And 50 say We all in France.
ENGLISH SPOKEN.
think that il / were an American. I should
not object to catching the English accent. but
all the same sympathize with the American
who. In New York paper has been exhortins
ms countrymen to avoid copying the mutilated
English affected by some Englishmen There
Is something sIpshod about speech bereft OF
sounding RS. for instance. thu / cordially dis
IKE. IL Is a sign OF efemlnacy and want Of
slnew The lncroyables, under the dlrectoire,
started the absurd trick in France and our
Young dudes have kept II up. Ii is their won't
10 talk OF their honna bonha, &c: but If had
10 choose between the honor" Of two men
would try that of the one who put In all its
letters. Sturdy, honest folks who do not shy
al their r 8 are not likely to shy at other things
Ihere Is something in the speech of a true Scot
or Devonshire man that gives promise of his
energy or falthfulness. IL two men came to
you, one asking for wGck and the other for
"orruk, winch would You be more inclined to
employ?
went one day to see Scotch friend o,
mine married When the bridegroom hold
ing the bride s hand. said Il take thee - for
betterer for worms" thought to myself, IF
were girl l should like to be taken like
that"
woMAS's MISSION
terrible calamity has befallcn man. A lady
has beaten the senior wrangler of the year at
Cambridge by 400 markS 1 aIn almost inclined
TO think after all that it is upon woman the
calamity has fallen. If this manly feat leads
cleVer girls TO see IN themselves possible Miss
Fawcetts the ranks of governesses will swell
faster than ever, and a more lamentable result
could not be imagined The army is a huge
one already. and the rank and file can com
inand but the most miserable pittances. II
had 10 choose profession for my daughter TO
earn her living by would a hundred times
sooner doom her to the milliner's Workshop
than to the school room.
only hope women will no more think OF
Initiating Miss Fawcett's exploit than men did
OF initiating Capt. Webbs when he swan across
the channel She may have proved that
womans brain is not inferior to mans IA fact
which nobody doubted), but a hundred lady
"ranSlers Will never prove that woman's mis-
sion III the world Is the same as mans In the
animal Kingdom, starting from the lowest
organisms, where YOU find the difference be-
tween the male and female hardly perceptible.
inc iurther you go mp the scale the more ac-
centuated becomes the difference between the
sexes. In man and woman the dissimilarity is
most marked.
THE BEST THE LEAST HEARD OF
1he more women seek to resemble man the
farther they will remove themselves from him
Electric fluids of the same name repel one
another; electric fluids of opposite kinds at
tract each other. Most of the women who
have made q great name for themselves by
their brain work have been SO many good
wives and mothers lost to the world, and in
these days OF cheap and noisy notoriety espe-
claiiy sweet are the words OF the poet of an
t!qult! VINO SAID that 1.-THE best women were
those the world heard least Of"
Undergrad. and without any definite rank in
the househo.L. the family governess seems to
me TO have but two possible gieams of gladness
IN her lot Ii she be fond of children their
fresh young affection will keep her heart
warm. and If she have any sense of humor the
gay note occasionally struck by little pupil
III.
/ nave today had sent to me by governess the
following:
Governess-"What is a continent?"
Dead silence.
Governess-"Does no one know"
Johnny (aged eight)-''I know. It's place
where people go when they're married"
CHECK on cABDIEs
What has become of Mrs Podpers2 II ia
years since saw the name of the valiant lady
IN the papers. The police courts know her no
more. Was 1t Pu:ach that extinguished her?
his picture of the cabbieE. all disappearing
under the table of cabmen's shelter as one
cries out: Mrs. Podgers coming" was too
much for her perhaps. IL she sull takes am
interest in Things ''cabbical" she will rejoice
TO hear that IN one country at least the ex-
tortlonate monster who holds the cab reins is
about TO have check put upon him that will
be quleter and more effectlal than her own
plan OF holding out selection of coins and
daring him to take more than his due on pa in
OF being called to account for it before a magis-
trate.
In Iaris reckoning machine is going to be
placed IN each cab TO give the hirer of it an
exact account OF the distance travelled and the
exact iare due the driver. Among the clauses
OF the new regulation L fiud the following:
when the driver is ordered to drive at a mace
the fare Will be reckoned at the rate of eight
klometers an hour, in other words at the same
rate as ordinary pace" This would meet the
| case OF Young spoony couple, whom remem-
Der hearing of years ago. They hailed cabby
and the gentleman gave his directions "You
viii go up the Champ-Elysses to the Arc de
lrionphe, then to the entrance of the Bots
and then-let me see-oh, then back again,
but go very slowly all the time"
Cabby took note of the pair and replied
touching his hat respectfully: "All right
uvnor, only my 'oss is rather tired; if you
don't mind, I'll just stand STILL
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