The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-03-18
TALKS ABOUT MANY THINGS.
ideas About Aging-A New Fad In Mems
H1ir-CapitAl Punishment Etc.

HRir-Capital Punishment ETC.
EDITOR AND FRIENDs-It is strange how
we notice on-coming age in every person
but ourselves. We do not need to read OF
Little Dorrifs father or the grave-digger in
cold Curiosity Shop" to know this. We
see it demonstrated every day.
Not long ago l was sitting in a public
room. A tall and very handsome lady
came in. Giving her only a casual glance,
Judged her to be not over thirty years OF
age. A few moments after the entrance
of this lady a stout, fussy woman came
sailing-no, came waddling in, with much
clamor OF feet and skirts.
Laws a msssy !" she said, on seeing the
tall woman. rs that YOU, Mandy? Why,
I haven't seen you for years. Where'd
you drop from? My how faded you
look; gettin' old fast, amt your"
Yes said the woman addressed, as
she shook hands with Mrs. Fussy, though
/ saw shade of annoyance pass over her
face as she did so; 81 am old. and go L
suppose do no not belle my looks. am
thirty-fve; just one year older than your
self, if ! remember Alright"
"Oh, never feel that old" said Mrs.
Pussy. I'm as young looking as ever.
Folks say age don't hurt me any"
They went out of the room together,
and from a window l watched them pass
ing up the street together. The tall wo-
man walked with girlish, springing step.
The stout woman waddled along by her
side with the gait of a woman of seventy.
Yes, l thought, you do not grow old,
that is true for you were never young in
looks and actions. You are one of the
women who look old at twenty, and forty
could change you but little.
what is the matter, Frank?" said
young lady clerk. "You look so glum;
seen something don't suit your"
ayes, and heard something, too. It's
pity people cannot keep their imperti
hence at nome, and not bring it into pub
lie places"
Apropos of impertinence, is the new
way the men are wearing their hair. 1t
looks like it might be an extension of the
pompadour cut, but if it is, it is quite an
Improvement on that bristly style. / do
not know what they call this new style; 1
call it the Commodore Perry roach. In
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WAYS had his hair parted on each side of
his forehead. The hair between the parts
being taken up in a curl which laws along
the top OF his head and falls slightly over
his forehead. A young man with his hair
fixed this way only needs a large black
stock around his neck TO convert him into
the likeness of an old time gentleman,
and for the round boyish lace or the full
fieshy high colored one, l must say this
style Of wearing the hair is imme nse, and
makes a man look like man and not like
babboon or a natural born idiot as the
close cut Sing Sing style did. Talk about
women growing crazy over the fashions,
that close cut shows Just what man will do
over fashion, and give him the chance, no
difference how long, round or bumpy his
head is, he is sure to make himself a
spectacle to the world over il, and the only
excuse l ever heard him offer for doing
this was that it was a bangup cure for
headache. A great many headaches de.
veloped about that time, l took notice
Bah" is right about brunettes wearing
white. 1t does improve them, though l
had never thought of it until it was
brought home to me. There is girl here
that has such black hair, ewes and com
plexiOn that it sets ones teeth on edge
almost to look at her. She came back
from the city the other day with some
kind of a new fashioned white feecy
woollen scarf over her head, and now the
men all turn and look after her and ask
who that pretty girl is. III | were that
girl / would extend the wearing of that
wOollen head and neck gear into the sum-
mer If had 10 sweat for il, for the sake
OF my good looks.
L believe in capital punishment. The
punishment OF any crime should be COM
mensurate 10 the crime committed, both
in a spiritual and temporal life Were
crimes followed by swift and adequate
punishment, wrong would necessarily de-
crease. 1t Is the maudlin sympathy and
law that can be twisted and bought
in favor OF crime that keeps it on
the increase. Fear is a characteristic
of most men. Fear of death belongs to
all men when not under the influence of
passion or a befu 1dled brain Life of
others NAV not be dear to them, but their
own life generally is. We put danger
Gus dog where he can do no harm. A
dangerous man or woman should be dealt
with in the same way and that not always
in close confinement, for there is hope in
that j know a man we'll with such muir
derous instincts, that he tried at different
times to kill his wife and children; twice
almost succeeded in killing his wife and
left her for dead Another time would
have really succeeded had not speedy help
been at hand. Ae got in a sQusbble one
night with a brother and hacked him
almost 10 pieces with an AK. Thinking
he was dead, he set fire TO the house and
left things as he supposed to their fate.
But his wife, who had taken refuge with a
neighbor, saw the fiames and with help
hurried to the scene In time TO drag the
insensible brother from tho fire. The
man was arrested, but by some bubble of
the law only got two or three
years, sentence. He came out
OF prison the same bloodthirsty brute he
had gone in, aud few years after shot
and killed on inoheDsive neighbor under
no provocation Whatever. This time he
WAS tried for his life, and 80 great was his
fear of hanging that he forced his wife 10
sacrifice what little property they possessed
20 get defense for him. II ~ said that he
shouted for JOY when he received life
time sentence instead OF the death sentence
which he deserved. For don't you see?
There is hope in this--good behavior.
Some future lenient governor or some UNI