The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-22
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iucuob, put III uTtlhIiS Deaupy "isp' ; :
an etching on glass and represents a mos
beautifully proportional woman r~eclinins
o II the banks of a stream among the reed
and rushes, with ono foot dipping into tn,
water. Clouds are floating In the distance
the brook lows along with a gentle ripple,
and graceful reeds bend above her. On
arm is thrown above her head while thu
other lies gracefully at her side. Agreat
deal of ability is required to produce sucl
q piece. as a single misstroke would destroy
the whole from an artistic standpoint.
The etching is lone in glass, and the
process is as follows: The glass is covered
on the back with a coating of soap and
then with a sharp instrument the subject il
mind is sketched on this prepared surface,
then a solution OF sulphuric acid is applied
which eats into the glass in the lines made
by the artist. after which the soap is re.
moved, and in turning the glass over you
have the etching. The back of the glass is
coated with mercury, thus bringing out the
picture more distinctly.
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Looking over a Chicago paper yesterday !
came across the following, which l thought
good enough to be repeated. quite agreed
with the person writing it and could readily
note the sarcasm found in each line:
Mr.. Moody says that the rarest excuse
for staying away from services he ever
heard was that given by a Boston woman,
who said she could not attend the Moody
meetings because she had to remain at home
to care for her pug dog. East and west
there are not Il few homes where the central
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species or other. Colonel George w. Balm,
of Kentucky, exclaims against the same
fallacious tendency of fashionable society
upon seeing an elegantly dressed lady on one
of the main boulevards of the city carrying
and caressing a poodle dog. The same wo-
man, he says. would not be caught carry
ing her own baby in her arms down your
fashionable avenue, and yet the highest
type of creation is a true mother with a
babe in her arms; and | believe it would be
a blessing to our country if some agenging
angel would 60 through the cities of the
land and smite every English pug and
poodle dog bought to take the place of a
baby.' That sentiment was uttered before
a Philadelphia audience and roundly APP
plauded."
There is a bare possibility hat babies
may supercede as fashionable pets the pam
pered lap-dog. An English duchess has
taken an odd and perhaps aim ost unac.
countable fancy to be very proud of her
baby daughter.
Whatever is English seems "to co." and
why not thfs?"
wen to a dry goods store recently and
asked for three whalebones to put in a
dress waist, and was not a little astonished
when | asked the price to be told by the
obliging clerk that it would be 81. won
dered at the rise in whalebone and thought
that some Massachusetts firm had a corner
in whales-for I remembered that not long
ago our corsets were all ribbed with them
and there was a time when they were used
in hoop skitts, when each maiden's stays
could have told wondrous tales of how the
dauntless sailor had thrown his harpoon into
great leviathans and from the monsters Sc
cured the sheets of whalebone; of the suffer
ings endured by these men, who risked
their lives that women might be properly
Stayed
l di scovered that the canse of the rise in
whalebone is due to the fact that the whale
tribe is fast being annihilated. The price
of good bone has risen from a mere moth
ing to IS per pound. Fine whalebone is
worth it's weight in silver, n the price
h]uctuates worse than the stock market,
owing to the fact that it is impossible to
calculate upon a seasons catch until the
Done has actually been extracted. Horn is
largely used in the place of whalebone
,,nu l,,% - :, ,N pnor1- n 20 ~~DI Loo,-,a
heat and cold cause it to break. This horn
is made in France. and much of it is con-
tributed by the l%ong-horned steers of our
plains. The horn is shipped to France,
there made into, imitation whalebone,
shipped back and sold to the Americans as
real whalebone.
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A gentleman standing in front of one of
our drug stores the other day was leisurely
peeline a banana while opposite him on the
curb was seated one of the rising genera
ton in the shape of a small boy in a very
ragged pair of trousers and a blouse waist.
The small boy watched the process of peel
ing attentively and a longing to possess a
portion of the yellow fruit came into his
mind. At length he asked for a bite. The
man, thinking to put him off, told him it
was half rotten. Nothing daunted the
youth replied: "Well, give me the rotten
half"
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A man came staggering down Main street
on Saturday afternoon 80 full of fire water
that he could see two moons and several
stars. although it was the middle of the
day, and leading him by the hand was a
little fellow not over five years of age and
still wearing dresses. The child endeavored
to propel his father through the crowd,
lodging arst the car, then a delivery wagon
and lastly several women carrying large
parasols. Once he stopped in despair, then
gathering courage started again, in a de-
s~pairing tone exclaiming, Come on, daddy,
let's go home to maj Sights like these are
met with every day in the crowded portions
of the large cities, and even there we turn
and cast a pitying glance at the poor chill
dren, but here in our pretty town
where there are no dark alleys and ten
story tenement houses. where the deepest
degradation is not stamped ON the faces of
half the population. we do not look for
sights like those.
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All day long on Sunday last might have
been heard the steadytap of the carpenters
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