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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
THE MOURNING HABIT.
Long Grape Walls Are No Longer Worn By
SanSIh,a Wnman

Long Grape walls Are No Longer Worn By
Sensible Women.
There is no matter that is regulated
so much by personal preference, and
about which people differ in taste so
much, as mourning dress. Ostentatious
mourning, like any ostentatious show
of grief, rather suggests insincerity than
any other feeling. Those who grieVe
truly for their friends are apt to lose for
the time all sense of what the world
thinks of their sorrow, and shrink from
parading their woe in public. The ma
jority of people who adopt mourning
now wear simple garments of black,
with little Grape, and none of the elab-
crate insignia of sorrow formerly do
tated by etiquette. The long Grape vail
that muffied the face and stified the
breathing in its poisonous dye, has los
been condemned by physicians, and
women of common sense refuse to wear
1t over their faces. A regard for the
conventionalities of the world should be
observed by those who do not put on
black. 1t would be shocking to any one
to see widow with gay apparel at her
husbands funeral. Even if she does
not "believe in mourning" she should
adopt on such an occasion a garb that 10
In some consOnance with propriety.
Brilliant colors and snowy attire are
always indicative of gayety, and somber
colors of sorrow. The feelings of per-
sons in genu ne sorrow are usually such
that they desire plain attire. Ostenta-
tious mourning is often as dissonant with
their feeling, as gay apparel. 1t is
therefore becoming more and more the
custom of refined people to adopt during
the period of their seclusion from the
gayeties of the world simple outfit of
black with gray and white, a garb which
is entirely different in effect from regu-
lation mourning as any thing can be, vet
which is so simple and requires so little
thought that it leaves the wearer time
and thought for the weightier matters
of life and death, toward which she
turns continually at such times of be-
reavement.
Consistency certainly should be aimed
at when mourning is put on. The pict-
ure Of mother and sisters, who had
put on deep mourning, appearing two
weeks afterward at large social gather
Ing once caused great deal Of gossip,
and worldly people imputed to them
desire to display their grief in their
dress rather than sincere sorrow. Ger
tainly no one in deep black should ap-
pear at any gay entertainment. It is
equally absurd to refuse all recreation.
A widow usually remains out of society
for one or two years. A person after
wearing light mourning for three
months may attend concerts and gradu-
ally accept invitations No person who
was in sincere sorrow would plunge into
social pleasures. A widow who wears
diamonds and other snowy jewelry with
deep mourning is not likelyto paw much
heed to the conventionalities Of life.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04

Farmers have themselves often to
blame for the dislike their sons take to
a business in which they find only the
rough and hard side of life. Farm
work is not so hard and disagreeable as
it used to be before the introduction of
much labor saving machinery that now
lightens it. Still, though less disagree
able, the boys do not like to have its
toughest and worst features put on
them. Nor will it make it any better
for the father, who now shirks whatever
he dislikes to tell his sons how much
harder he had to work than they when
he was a boy. Farm work is easier
than it used to be, and the boys should
be the first ones on the farm to find
this out practically. Then fewer of
them would be led from the farm by
the attractions of city life
So far as possible boys ought to have
a personal and pecuniary interest in
everything they do, and the girls also
for that matter Their labor legally
CSiOllsoo W lIiC llIilll lllCy DGCOllle
of age, but he is indeed a strange father
who keeps his sons or daughters at work
without pay merely to save the wages
of hired help. This working without
pecuniary interest in what one is doing
is too much like slavery. Just as soon
as the pressure is removed, and the
child becomes legally its own master,
all restraint is thrown aside. Every
young person should have some chance
to work for himself on some corner of
the farm, and whatever he thus earns
should be his, to be saved or spent I'M
der parental supervision.
In this way the habit of earning
money, and the knowledge of what it
costs to procure it, as well as the best
means of using it, may be learned. The
farm has undoubtedly greater opportu-
mites for teaching both boys and girls
this practical knowledge of money
and its value than any other business
in the city can possibly enjoy. A great
part of the advantage of living in the
country for bringing up a family Of
children will be lost unless this Oppor-
tunity is utilized as much as possible.
American Cultivator.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.


There are over 80 600 children in the
Presbyterian Sunday schools.
No man will ever feel right until he
believes right and behaves right.
There are ass Lutheran ministers
resident in the State of Minnesota.
Lady Iiopetoun laid the foundations
stone at Melbourne, on March II, of the
first college for ladies established in
Australia.
The University of the City of New
York has decided to admit women to the
classes of the law department upon the
same terms as men.
Reported benefactions to forty-two
American colleges during the last year
amount to S3,675,000, the gifts ranging
from 500 to $500, 600 each.
Those two lovers, grace and assur-
ance, are not by God so nearly Joined
together but that they may, by sin on
our part and justice on Gods, be put
asunder.
tod has given man two eyes; if he
loses one he hath another. But man
hath only one soul; if he lose that the
loss can never be made up again. -Chry-
sostom.
The total number of students ma
circulated at the German universities
during the last winter session was
9,103, this exceeding the number be-
longing to any other faculty.
An aged Clergyman met a man who
was declaiming againstforeignm missions.
why" asked the objector, doesn't the
church look after the heather at home?''
1--WE do" said the clergyman, quietly,
as he gave the man tract.
For the first time since Harvard Col
lege was founded, the quinquennial
record of it's alumni is issued in Eng
lish instead of Latin. During its Pa
years of existence Harvard university
has graduated 1880 pupils, of whom
little more than one-half (S,G27) are still
living.
In doing good we are generally cold
and languid and sluggish; and of all
things afraid of being too much in the
right. But the works of malice and in
justice are quite in another style. They
are finished with bold mastery hand,
touched as they are with the spirit of
those vehement passions that call forth
all our energies whenever we Cypress
and persecute.-Burke.
Several wealthy Hebrews recently Of
| fered $500, 600 for the Vatican's copy of
the Hebrew Bible, but the Pope
wouldn't sell it. A similar effort to buy
this Bible was made in 1872 when julius
ii was greatly in need of money, but
still he refused 500, 600. They do not
seem to realize that the treasures of
the Vatican are the heritage of the
Papacy, not the property of any single
Pope.-New Jersey Catholic journal.
-Vassar College owes its existence to
a woman, Miss Lydia Booth, a cousin of
the founder, Matthew Vassar. Mr.,
Nassar was planning hospital on the
plan OF Guys Hospital, in London, as
his bequest to the community, when his
klnswoman suggested the founding of a
college for women which should be to
them what Yale and Harvard were to
men. Immediate application was made
Tor charter and in 1861 there came in
to being Vassar College, which on each
18th OF June celebrates Founders
hav
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
1t All Came Rack.

"Some clothes today" he asked, as a
young man halted before his place on Jeffer
son avenue and began stroking the right
hand leg Of pair of pants.
do you remember meF was asked in
reply.
''Vhas dere something's wrong, my frendtT
Don't you remember3 | was here and
bought coat of you last fall"
Last fall Fhas dot coat all rightF'
''You asked Sc for it and gave you S..
1t was q Prince Albert You remember,
don't yAF
"Vhas dere some moths in itl Did it fade
outp
Il asked you if you remember met While
we were talking the fire engines went by"
Ibid somepody say dot coat vhas not wort
tree dollarsP'
do you remember or don't your"
"My frendt. did some crock come of on
your hands in a wet dayT"
mo, sir. The coat was all right and worth
the money, and now want a pair or
''Vhas 1T all right Rememper you'll Ger
tainly dol Dose fire engines vhas going py,
und gift you shange for ten dollar, und you
ask me where to buy refolver. und you al
most buys a sachel of me- Rememper you'll
Well, shall shmile if | don'tI How you
vhas9 Come inside vhas shust wondering
oafer you, and it pleases me dot you vhas in
good health How odd dot | don't shake
hands init you hull block AWAY Detroit
Free Press
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
CRUEL SLAVE-DRIVERS.
Narrowing Sights of the Inhumanity Prac-
tIced by Arab Slavers

tIced by Arab Slavers
M. Menon, of the Island of Reunion,
who was formerly engaged in promot-
ing what he calls the African emigra-
ton to the French colonies, describes
the following scene on the River Lin
die, on the eastern coast: IAN Arab
chief told us he had, in the forest at
some leagues distant, a depot of eight
hundred men, whom he would bring to
us the next day. l asked the chief to
conduct US to his camp, and at first he
stubbornly refused. But when | prom
Used him ritle-musket, which he eager
ly desired to get, he consented, and led
us thither. After three hours march we
arrived, but could see nothing.
"'Where are they lodged?' we asked,
and he pointed to a palisade of bamboo
open to the sky, where they were ex-
posed, at the worst season of the year,
to fiery sun, alternating with torrents
of rain, and sometimes of hail, without
any roof to cover them. A man of tall
statue, with a spear in his hand and
poniard in his belt, pulled up three
posts, which served for a gate to this
Enclosure, and we entered. There they
were, naked as on the day of their birth;
some of them with long fork attached
to their neck-that is, a heavy branch
of tree, of fork-like shape so arranged
that it was impossible for them to step
forward the heavy handle of the fork,
which they could not lift, effectually
preventing them from advancing, be-
cause of the pressure on the throat; 9TH
ers were chained together in parcels of
twenty. The expression is a trivial one,
but it exactly expresses the idea. The
keeper of this den utters hoarse cry;
it is the order for the merchandise to
stand up. But many of them do not
obey. What is the matter? Our inter-
prefer, who has gone among the groups,
will tell US; listen to him:
The chains are too short; the dead
and the dying prevent the living from
rising The dead can say nothing; but
what do the living say? They say they
are dying of-hungerr But let US leave
the consideration of this traders pict-
ure as a whole, and let US look to some
of the details. Who is this creature
WHO uOluS OlS nbIy III HOI aims d SAOCP
less object covered with filthy leaves?
On looking close you see it is a woman,
lying in the mud, and, holding her
dried-up breast to the child of which
she has just been delivered. And those
little girls, who totter as they strive to
rise, and who seem to ask for pity, on
what are they leaning? On dead
body. And this man, who is working
with his hands piece of mud, which
he is continually placing on his eye,
what is the matter with him Our
guide tells us: He is a troublesome
fellow, who set a bad example by
throwing himself at my feet this morn
ing and saying, in loud voice, Il am
dying of hunger" and 1 gave him a
blow which burst his eye; he is hence
forth good for nothing and, he added,
with sinister look, he won't be hun
CRY long To the question addressed
o the Arab chief, why he dealt thus
with the men, his reply was: L do as
my father did before me. '"-London
Times
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
FAMILY FASHIONS
suits for Little Boys and Wraps for n.
tie Girls-ChiIdren's Hats.

NNANS avn D'ttso hPogN ana w rams
tie Girls-ChiIdren's Hats.
The first colored dress which is mt
on little boys after they are a wear oId
is of bingham, and is made with =
plated waist with rows Of insertion bo-
tween the plaits and skirt laid =,
side plaits. When the boy is about
three or four years old, according tn his
size, he is considered large enough 10
be put in a suit with the kilt srnarata
from the waist. These suits are mad
OF Scotch plaid and plain woods of LIGHT
weight, white pique and white flannel
The skirt is laid in fat. broad kills
and If of wool is ornamental with
decoration of squares of braid. The
jacket is square and short to show the
blouse vest of white linen or white or
yellow China silk entirely around
Short white socks, which disDlav tho
bare leg, are worn with black or tan
colored boots.
long coat of pique or white wool
with cape, is worn by little girls IN
to five and six years of age, when the
child is considered old enough to wear
a reeting jacket of dark navy bIua
cheviot, or of the pretty striped Han-
nels that are now used. A great mapv
mothers, however. retain a lone coat
till the child is at least ten wears old
because they find there are manv cool
days when the light REFER Jackets are
not enough protection in the country
The long wraps made for little girls ara
usually loose in 'front.' reaching to the
bottom of their dress-Skirts. They ara
made Of plain and fancy cloths and
rough cheviOt cloths in navy hines
browns and also of light drab and gray
coachman's cloths. Dainty little lack
cts in mixed covert cloth, in stylish
Oxford and Cambridge mixtures, are
imported for little girls The fayorite
wrap for older schoolgirls is a tailor
made Jacket of serge or mixed Enulish
tweed, finished with stitched edges and
plain bone buttons.
Considerable difference is now made
in the first hat worn by a baby bow and
girl. The little girls bonnet is a yari
ETY. of the French cap, fitted closely
around her head, while the little bow
wears hat of shirred lawn or crepon.
made with pulled crown, and ruche
OF lace next the face. As soon as the
boy puts on separate kilt, he wears
sailor hat of white straw. The little
girl OF three, when she is too old to wear
a cap, has leghorn straw fiat in
white or in some of the various colors
which have been brought out this sea-
son, simply trimmed with ribbons and
flowers. For schoolgirls there are large
bats, with brim5 projecting over the
eyes, to be trimmed with tips or ribbon
bows. Sailor hats are worn by girls in
their teens" and are now more popu-
lar, it possible, than ever before
Helena Rowe, in Good Housekeeping.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
HER HEELS HER RANSOM.
How Carmencfta Danced Herself Out of til
Rripand. :, [ lntcIn-

now CarnlencIta Danced herself Out OF the
Brigand,' Clutch.
My first dancing for money was before
band of brigands, and l had no idea
what my salary was to be, either writes
Carmencita to Kate Fields Washing
ton. When l was fifteen 1 was living
with my aunt and uncle, who had a
produce farm not very far from Madrid,
and equally near to the palace of the
Escurial.
The stretch of country between the
capital and the wonderful palace of
Philip II. was at that time infested with
banditti. l was in the habit of loading
a donkey with fresh eggs and vegeta-
bles for the priests On one particular
morning 1 not only had heavy load of
provisions for the fathers, but nearly
! 1000 reals beside hidden in my bosom,
which were to pay for masses for a rela-
tive of mine.
was proceeding slowly with my dom
key when l was suddenly surrounded by
fierce-looking men, and in few m nutes
was hurr ed down a rocky path into
some dark woods.
Well, sat down and watched the rob-
bers making omelets of my fresh eggs
and crunching my crisp onions, and how
| wished every mouthful would choke
them! After awhile the chief glanced
toward where l was crouching in a cor
ner, and calling me to him made me
drink large cup of wine.
Then somebody began playing man
dolin. For a few minutes every body
listened, and whether it was the wine
had drunk or something else, l began
tapping the ground with my feet and
nodding in time with the aria.
"Ah, you dance" cried the chief.
snow, come, little one-see if you can
not earn back your mass money"
Silently 1 followed the band to a
smooth piece of grassy ground just be-
yond the cavern. Round this the rob-
bers squatted tailor-fashion, excepting
two of them, who stood on one side
stunning their instruments. l danced
as l never had before, and continued
for nearly an hour, until l had to stop
from exhaustion.
But, when l had finished, the robber
chief lifted me in his arms and kissed
me, while he handed me back the purse
containing the mass money. Then he
told one of his men to bring out my
donkey, and next he took off his hat
and went around among his band say
ing: ''Now, let US pay Carmencita for
the good breakfast she brought US
heard the clink of money falling in
his hat, and in a few minutes he came
to me and poured into my hands sum
far larger than l should have received
from the priests for my farm produce.
He then escorted me to the gates of the
Escurial, and before he left he gave me
small, curiously-bent piece of iron.
s'This," said he, will save you from
all molestation in this part of Spain if
you ever have the fortune to meet any
more gentlemen of my profession"
told my story to the fathers at the
palace and a troop of dragons were
sent in pursuit of my friend, whose
name proved to be Antazio. l am glad
to say they did not catch m. I always
wear the piece of iron he gave me. 1t
has proved a mascot.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
Haunted Hotel Rooms.

Yes, a man who commits suicide in
a MOTEL causes vast deal of trouble"
said an old hotel clerk. IF the num-
Der OF the room in which the deed was
committed gets out we always have to
reminder the room before we can get
anybody to occupy it. l recall an in
cldent OF a few years ago that is inter
esting. A well known Richmond man
had committed suicide in one of the
Indianapolis hotels About the time
the corpse was removed some of the
electric wires in the building got crossed.
THAT afternoon a travelling man was
occupying a room several doors from
the one in which the suicide had oc-
CURED. Every time he would call for a
boy the register on the clerks desk
would point to the number of the room
in which the suicide had occurred and
from which the corpse had been re-
moved only few hours before A bell
boy answered the first call and came
back white as a sheet, with the an
nouncement that no one was in the
room. 'Tinga-ling-a-ling' went the
call bell again, and once more the regis
ter pointed to the room in which the
suicide had occurred. A second bell boy
was sent to the room, and he came
back as badly scared as the first, with
the statement that no one was in the
room.
1T is the dead mans ghost, said a
guest who had become interested in the
proceedings.
again the bell rang, and for the
third time the register pointed to the
suicides room. | ordered third bell
boy to go up and make sure that there
was no one in the room Not much;
he wouldn't go, Said l wasn't going
to steer him in among spOOks | screwed
up my own courage and started up
stairs to make an investigation myself.
My breath was beginning to come short
when | met the travelling man on his
way downstairs, Tuning because his
calls had not been answered. 1t oc-
Cured to me in moment that the
wires had become crossed. "-Indianap-
oils News
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
A MUSCULAR HEN.
She Vanquishes Biddy and Adopts Family
of Kittens.


At Stafford Springs, Conn, deter
mined old hen wanted to sit Her owner
removed her eggs, whereupon in queru-
lous mood she quit her nest and clustered
about the homestead, finding a great
deal of fault with life. While she was
doing that the family cat discovered her
artistically wrought and rounded nest,
curled upon it and deposited live kittens
in it, Then biddy came back, pitched
into pussy, fairly drove her off the nest,
few in and sat down on the kittens,
evidently inferring they were a new
kind of chickens, she had Matched in
moment of mental abstraction. For
day or two the hen brooded away and
the unhappy cat stalked about the
premises watching for an opportunity
to get back her own. At the end of
three days the hen had to quit the old
stand for food and water and prompt V
the cat slipped into the nest and taking
the kittens one by one by the cuff of
the neck, transported them all to the
distant part of the hay-mow.
Then came biddy home again. When
she found the f1edgings flown she raised
another no sy row all about the farm
She looked allow and aloft vainly for
awhile, for the missing brood, and final
ly found them ranged like pegs, on
telegraph pole arm alongside the parent
cat. Again another battle and the old
cat had to fly from the furious hen
pecking, but she took along one kitten
in her teeth, while the hen held the
field of battle, and four feline spoils
With the kitten in her teeth the cat
scaled high scaffold and made for her.
self new home, with her one offspring
by her side. The old hen is still en-
camped on the rest of the kittens in the
new-made nest. She lays not. neither
does she cackle, but it really looks as if
she was going to bring up the four kits
in spite of all drawbacks and setbacks
The Stafford Springs man has watched
the proceedings impartially, but with
interest, and he fancies he is proprietor
Of the only case of cat and hen abduc-
ton and reabduct' on. Who can beat
this novel SiDht?-Oh;O Farmer
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
PITY the Waiter

An amusing incident at the Niagara hotel
Is vouched for A well known gentleman
was required to dine with party from whom
he wished to escape, as a more important
matter awaited his attention but they would
net accept his excuses, and the dinner was
waiting He had to go in, but awaited him
self of a momentary opportunity to put up
job with the waiter to call him out A quar-
ter OF an hour passed, and he began to feel
uneasy lest the plan should mlscarry, when
in came the obliging waiter, and did the
thing completely by announcing. There's a
gentleman calling you by telephone sir. and
here's his card Boston Courier.