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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-14

Correspondence of THE SUNDAY HERALD.
NEW YORK, June 12.-The New York woman
of to-day is nothing If not literary. She either
writes poetry, novels, hymns, essays on how
be happy in various states, or else she
translates. For my own part, Pm afraid of
ner. She is impertinent to the last degree,
for she has an idea that she knows more than
anybody else in the world, and that you are
yearning to be informed of this fact. A very
condescending young woman said to me the
other day: "Don't you even translate? 2" With
a weakness that was new to me | confessed
that did not, and she said that it was
great pity. / thought it was, too. A very
fashionable woman is given over to writing
hymns-hymns which are, as she describes
them, spiritual, with sufficient amount of
material to be appreciated even by sinner"
She showed me one, and, as a representative
sinner, must confess the meter was very
much like Swinburne's "Faustine" and that
the whole thing was simply bosh. This was
the first verse:
When the essence divine looks out from your
OH Believe;
And the downcast soul is impelled to arise,
Oh! Believe
That the worldly joys do, dear, this day,
Fade like the suns last warm sweet ray.
WHERE RELIGION is SHIELD.
The misguided woman, who, like Mr. Silat
Wegg, has "dropped into poetry" is having
her hymns printed for private circulation, and
the covers are the most beautiful things you
ever saw-of white with leur de lis in gold
upon them, and clasp that looks more like
the three feathers Of the Prince of Wales
than the French flower. 1t is rather interest
ing to know little about the life OF a woman
Of this sort. Curiously enough, the hymn
writing being is married, and speaks Of her
husband as "kind but SHINING soul,' and of
her marriage as Zone where there is no sym
pathy, but mutual agreement to let each
seek that which seems best unto his soul"
Now, respect eyerybody's belief, but l re-
gard that woman as a proper candidate for the
whipping post. Her home is full of fine fur
niture and yet is altogether such wretched
place that the SHINING husband has been driven
10 finding what is good for his soul at his
club and in the affection Of other women.
The lady who does the hymns find prayer
meetings and pet preachers sufficient for her,
and consequently her husband is not needed.
Some day she will have to die, and when she
does don't think that hymns will be as sat
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-14
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isfactory to her as she thinks, and it won't be
very pleasant to have recalled to her all she
might have been to the man she swore to
love, honor, and obey until death did them
part Doesn't your heart throb when you
think of the women who use religion as
shield for their own GOODNESS and selfshness
And don't you feel like having them taken
some place and killed in some horrible way?
They are the women who injure the cause
of loving kindness and make men the worst
of sinners. get very enthusiastic about this,
because despise hypocrite.
SOULS OUTSIDE HER HOME.
Every afternoon there drives up the avenue
a handsome, bold-looking woman, superbly
dressed, whose turnout is in the very latest
style. Men refer to her in low tones and
women pretend not to see her; but everybody
in New York knows who ''pays the freight"
We will call him Mr.. Brown. Mr.. Browns
sons are wild, fast men. His only daughter
eloped with man whose character is more
than merely questionable, and his wife, a
ratherneutral, ,delicate-looking woman, has the
sympathy of all New York-even the sinners
among men feel sorry for her. Now, she
don't deserve it. She is the cause of all
the trouble. Years ago, when her children
We're babies, she became a religious enthus-
asst, and got general taste for saving the
souls of all the people in the world, which
usually means meddling in other peoples af-
fairs She grew so spiritual (?) that her hus-
band was driven from her room in order that
she might be better able to pray or sing a
hymn or two, at all hours of the night
man may stand this for a little while, but he
is pretty certain to rebel, and, of course, this
one did. He fought desperately for time
to keep his wifes interest in his soul and her
love for him, but he gave in after awhile,
and sought somebody who was less inter
ested in souls generally and more in him per-
sonally. She had no time to attend to her
children they never knew what it was to be
with their mother, and hear all the dear,
sweet stories, and learn to sing the merry
tunes of childhood at her feet.
HOW WOMAN breaches BEST.
Oh, dear, no They were let alone, and, as
children always learn wickedness easier than
they do virtue, they simply went to the devil
in their own way. Now, she means over their
condition, but goes on in her own path, being
specially conspicuous wherever a woman can
most effectually make donkey of herself
Blessed be St. Paul for advising that woman
keep quiet in the churches! And blessed be
st. Paul the second time for the other good
talkings to he gave women, and which mean
love and take care of your husbands and babies
and your own kin. "Oh," says Madame
Prim, 'then we are not to look for the sinners
outside" My dear, l think not. That is,
not until the sinners at home have all been
reformed and are willing 70 help the preacher.
woman breaches best by deeds, not words,
and the success she makes in her own house
hold will give her higher position as mis-
sionary than that which she gains out
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there had been the least talk. forgot to say
she didn't know where she was going when
she started, and 1t would have been impossible
for her to have buried the cup or to have it
ready beforehand, for the people who invited
her were divided as to where their picnic
should be, and it was only at the last moment
that they concluded exactly where they would
go. Queer, wasn't it?
woMAN's HAPPIEsT BELIEFS.
But there are lots of queer things in this
world. And between you and me. | think
it's just as well not to dabble too much in the
queer things, or to make efforts to explain
them. To take life simply is the happiest
state for any human being. What do | mean
by that E?
mean to be able to believe that the good
God is over us all, and is going to do the best
for us.
mean to think that husbands and wives,
parents and children, love each other.
/ mean to believe that all flowers smell
sweet, that all women are good, and that all
men are honest.
mean to believe in hope, to have faith, and
to cling closely to charity.
mean to be hospitable, to be honest in your
greeting, and to give to the stranger that
which you have.
mean to try and think of things at their
best, and to try and do your best.
mean to have some of your kindly feeling
and some of your charity for woman, who,
If she sometimes is enthusiastic and sometimes
doestnt agree with you sometimes says such
things that are of little worth is, after all,
trying to DO her best to please you. Who is
she? She's BAB.
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will not deter the young woman who wrote to
me from joining the club. Her salvation or
the other state is in her own hands, and I
wouldn't interfere with her for worlds. Let
her do as is customary in the plunge in the
Russian bath, tumble in and risk drowning.
STORY OF MADAME BLAvATsKY.
Nobody is anybody to-day who hasn't got
story to tell about Madame Blavatsky. Mine
may be old, but some chestnuts are agreea-
BILE. The story was told to me in London.
1t appears that number Of years ago, when
the mysterious madame went out rather more
than she did lately, that she suceumbed to
that diabolical something known as a picnic,
and was one among many OF party of clever
people who were inclined to disbelieve her
theory but We're too polite to say SO. Luncheon
was spread out, and, as is usual at these
doubtful feasts, cups and plates were not
alike, and every woman with real feminine
vanity had brought her very best
china. AS they were drinking the tepid tea,
man dropped cup. 1t broke into two
pieces, and the woman to whom it belonged,
not mistress Of herself when china fell. called
out: "Oh, that's one of my Royal Dresden
pieces" Madame Blavatsky inquired If It
were very fine She was told that 1t was that
1t could not be matched, and that there were
only four Others like it in the world She
said: "And you'd like to have 1t back ?'
And the woman to whom 1t belonged simply
looked at her tearfully and said nothing. The
madame sat there, looked at the ground for
awhile, and suddenly from somewhere three
cornered note fell at her feet. 1t seems to
come from the skies. She picked it up, and,
without moving, asked: "Where were the
pieces of that cup?" Everybody looked;
they were gone, vanished.
MADAME OPENED THE NOTE,
read 1t, and passed it around. On it, written
in ink that was scarcely dry, were the words,
"Search for the cup under the oak tree at the
left" and the name signed to 1t was that of
the Indian astral body, or whatever 1t was,
who was always Madame Blavatsky's good
spirit. At first there was an, inclination to
laugh, and at last one man said: sim going
to try and see what is under the tree" So,
getting spade from farm house near, he
began to dig. After while the fine roots of
the oak tree, those queer little ones that spread
out like wires, were reached, and under them,
with other roots grown through its handle and
around it, apparently unbroken, was-the cup.
Now, that tree was hundreds of years old;
there wasn't human being in that party who
knew Madame Blayatsky but her hostess; the
cup belonged to woman who had never heard
OF her, and the man who broke it really did 1t
by accident, and was horribly mortified at his
awkwardness. The cup was taken out with a
knife. and it was mended exactly through the
centre, where it had been broken! l don't
ask anybody to believe this story. confess
to thinking it very strange myself, but it was
told to me last year in London as being really
the most marvellous thing that Madame Bla-
Vatsky had ever done and the one about which
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-14
WOMEN WE'RE NOT MADE FOR CLUBS.


Somebody took the trouble to write to me
about my opinion of women's clubs. 1t was
very nice letter, but 1 still maintain that
woman is not clubbable creature. One dear,
little dot told me that she didn't join club
because she didn't like the president. Isn't
that q delightfully."- feminine reason /? And
isn't it entirely different from a mans He
would have joined to be one more to put out
the disliked president or else would have
taken all the advantages of the club, ignored
the president entirely until election time, and
then be an ardent worker in the opposition
To be personal, must say that l am bit
conservative. With that, and with the fact
that like slight leaven of masculinity in
my amusements, as / do lump of sugar in
my tea, l know l should never do for a
woman's club. l have never heard such lot
OF milk-and-water speeches in my life as did
during the time that belonged to one, God
forgive me and / never heard, even in a sew
ing society, that you couldn't give a reason for
something, because the president and secre-
tary, or whoever the grand mogul might be,
happened to object to your having reasoning
mind. But they do that in women's clubs.
ASTRAL AND MATERIAL BODIES.
interesting places, but women always want to
make them pulpits for the promulgation of
philanthropic ideas and markets for the in
terchange of extremely large words. 1 like
large word when know what it means but
when it comes to microbes and the unforeseen
OF the how, and the management of the astral
body as superior to the material one, l am
in the minority-I am, so to say, frozen out.
would rather see the dimple in Della Fox's
shoulder than all the astral bodies that ever
pranced around the earth, when they ought
to have been enjoying themselves in a place
dedicated to astral bodies, and the name of
which l have forgotten. womans club
seems to be place where there is an immense
''B" for brains, an overwhelming "W" for
woman, a small 'm'' for man, a very small
sd" for dress, and a general belief that If
woman has on very pretty gown she rep
resents total depraVity, and her morals are to
be doubted.
LITTLE WOMAN OF SENSE.
l once sacrificed pair of gloves to woman
who said what she felt like. She was small
herself, and she spelt man with a large NJ
She loved him with an extra-sized H for a
heart, and she looked pretty because he liked
her to. She was frightened out Of her wits,
and it was only the consciousness that her
tailor-made frock came from Redfern's that
gave her courage to say anything at all. But
she told them that she didn't want to com
pete with men, and she didn't want to be
treated by men as man, but preferred to be
treated as a woman, and as long as she did
good work she wanted to have all the fayors
possible shown her, because she was a
woman. Now, that's good sense. But it's
something we seldom hear in women's clubs.
trust most earnestly that what / have said
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-06-14
Bah DISLIKES HER.
SHE SCORES THE RELIGIOUS HYPO-
CRITE IN PETTICOATS.

A New York Woman Who Writes Hymns
While Her Husband Finds a Place in
the Heart of Another Woman-WOmen
Were Not Made for C1ubs-Astral and
Material Bodies-A Story of Madame
Bla vatsky.
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Innnortant.

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ONLY
Three Minutes Walk to
Railroad Station,
Ten Minutes to Bright
wood,
To Which Point Rapid
Transit is Insured.
Thirty Minutes Drive
On a Fine Road to
Washington.
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nage of the bultup community of the Park
haed for less money than would be paid for adjacent
low price of cents per square upward
nsideed liberal We advise delay There but Iots
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-11
HARDY JUSTICE.

TAADI J JOSIACEs
 It sometimes takes a long time for this great, glorious and free country to do an act of justice. For instance, look at the delay in settling the French spoliation claims. Another class of claims that have been neglected for forty years will be dealt with by the Mexican Land Grant court established at the last session of congress. The treaty of 1s4s provided that valid grants of land which had all ready been made by Mexico in the terri tory she then ceded should be respected and that the titles thereto should be con- frmed.. Of course it became necessary to determine what were valid grants, and congress in the year 1854 reserved from settlement all tracts subject to such claims. But on attempting to exam inc these alleged concessions it found great obstacles in dealing with foreign laws and with the ancient documents and still more ancient customs of Mexico and Spain on which they rested. After a long time it confirmed 8 few claims on the strength of a report from a committee that it had not been able to in vestigate them properly and that congress never would be able to make such an in vestigation. Then it's efforts slackened, 80 that only about one-fourth of the titles, most of which are in New Mexico and Ari- zona, are thus far confirmed. That is not keeping good faith toward Mexico, with whom the stipulation was originally made, nor is it just toward individual owners, who cannot give good titles to lands they may wish to sell.
 The new court will unravel the compi- cations. It ought to have been established long ago.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-11
Making Money From Peaches.


 Notwithstanding the many years and the wide extent of territory occupied with peach culture in this country, while few persons make heavy profits, the great ma jority either lose by its culture or make small or moderate returns. Every man who owns half acre of land should have at least few peach trees for his family supply; and if cold winters destroy half the crops, the labor will be worth its cost for the fruit afforded. If the winters are so cold that the fruit buds are destroyed every year, then it is well worth the trou- ble of laying the prepared trees down for every winter, according to the modes which we have described on former occa- sions. These are for family supply.
 But when the planter comes to raising large crops for profit, and expects to ob- tain ample sums of money, there are seve- ral requisites for success which he must observe; O. In the first place he must select a locality where the winters will leave him good crop, at least half the time or more frequently, and where there are railway or steamboat facilities for con veyance to market, or good carriage roads near sLuHlieE tOhus. A~-I 4Ac Soii huSk admit of cultivation and manuring, using such fertilizers ss have proved beneficial in the selected locality, among which wood ashes, ground bone, nuriate of pot ash and superphosphate are variously ben eficisl, the quantity depending on the pre- vious fertility of the land. (3.) After set ting the trees keep the ground well culti- vated as long as good crops are wanted. 4) Shorten in the smaller shoots or the larger branches, as circumstances may re- aufre, so as to keep the trees in a mode rately compact and symmetrical form; which will aid in thinning the otherwise crowded fruit, the rest of which should I be sufficiently picked off to reduce the original number to about one third, to be done by the time or before the peaches are as large as cherries. (5) Pick the ripe fruit carefully, choose only handsome specimens and put them up neatly in at tractive packages, with fruit equally good throughout. With all these requisites, the raising of peaches for market is re- garded as the most profitable of all kinds of fruit culture, although some times cut short or annihilated by the yellows.
Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-11
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS.

Last fall the difficulties of English fnan- ciers made themselves felt in very un- pleasant way in this country. There was panic in the stock market, and general panic was only averted by the action of the associated banks in the principal money centers. There has since been 8 very pronounced recovery in confidence and prices, and month ago it looked very much as if there might be at least small boom. But since then the European have been calling for large amounts of our gold, and getting them too. So much has been taken that the stock market has felt the loss materially and during the last week the decline in prices has been rapid. The indications are that more gold will be re- quired.
 What is going on in European financial circles is not yet clear, but it is evident that the situation there is not very encour- aging. Gold is eagerly wanted in Lon don, Paris and Berlin. There is decid- edly shaky feeling in Paris, which went through the disturbance last fall with fly luS COlO1b anu lIloIlCy eo iSho. 4>o", tilo United States seems to be the only coun- try on the face of the globe that can spare gold. But if the precious metal continues to go out as fast as it has been going halt will have to be called. The course of Euro pean finances appears to depend upon the action of Russia, which has large deposits in the European money centers. She needs her money now. and if she should make a sudden and peremptory call for it there might be trouble. She probably will not, as she cannot afford to have any more trouble than there is if her new loan is tc l be foated.
 1 Time will tell. England, France, Ger many, Italy, Russia, Portugal, the Argen.
 tine Republic and Brazil are all in more
 or less financial trouble. This country
 is in safer position than any of them
 and it has crop prospects which would l make pessimist smile. Of course Ii
 there are any more crashes in Europe ",
 shall suffer, but business and speculation
 affairs here are in a pretty sound condi
 tion, and there will be no irreparablt | shock