The Critic and record., 1891-04-30

A. JACKSON
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Taking hold of the handle of this re.
markable vehicle and trundling il along
as does the scissors grinder his dscordant
engine, or the patient Dago his box of
ancient melody, Mr.. Jackson goes forth
upon his errand of reireshment. Wher-
ever the man and brother may congre.
gate there will the alert and strenuous
Jackson be found exploiting his wares
and adding to the tishballs intrinsic
charms the enhancement of vivid and
seductive eloquence. Mr.. Jackson does
not stop at fishballs. He deals in a liqud
which he calmly but firmly denominates
coffee and his commercial venture runs
riot over the whole boundess field of
sandwiches. Heis a blessing, messenger
OF cheer, disseminator of sustenance a
commissary and a purveyor without an
equal. To the solvent citizen engaged
upon job of work he brings a iive.cent
banquet that tightcns his wastband and
makes his cheeks shine with silent ecstacy.
To the poverty. stricken and dilapidated
coon roundcr he opens mp a three-Cent
vista of fulnesS and two hours siesta
during which he NAV dream and snore
and accumulate wind ON his stomach
with as large liberty rs the most bloated
IuOk OUT lot n JACKSON,
Keen your eye open for Mary the Wild
Cat"
The Critic had been nveighing against
the fashion of calling girls by such names
as Kittie Mollie, Gertie Susie and Salle
The Critics views were acquieSced in by
everybody but the Curbstone Philosopher
"Oh, why don't YOU fellows give the
girls show?' he said, as his hand de-
scribed circle through the air in the
manner peculiar to him and lazily drifted
down from above to remove the after
dinner cigar from his lips. THE pet
name controversy has been altogether too
one-sided from the beginning. It's only
fair to hear what the subjects of the con-
troyersy have to say. Don't you think
so ?"
His listeners admitting the Justice of
his claim, the Curbstone Philosopher con-
tinued
"Thegirls might plead, for instance, that
the custom of fastening a name on baby
Tor life before its character mental and
physical, has been formed is benighted
and unfair in any case. And this would
apply to such appellations as Susan and
Sarah, Elizabeth and Gertrude, as well as
to Susie, Sallie, Bessie and Gertie. If this
is such an important matter they might
ask why would it not be well to inauglt-
rate the custom of waiting until the child s
development has gone far enough to fur
nish at least hint by which those who
have the naming may be guided2 1t is
true, that the diminutive 'Kittie' would
sit on stately, self-poised woman like a
new spring bonnet on the Goddess of Lib
erty. But why should the dainty bit of
woman'fiesh who has won the name of
kittie by divine right of sprightliness and
jolility and song be burdened by the in
congruous, heavyweight name of Kath-
arine? Fashions in the matter of names
may run to bad extremes, but, these fair
pleaders might continue, is it not a bless
ing that women's names are flexible
enough to yield to the harmony which is
demanded by good taste here as well as
i'll the domain of millinery?
Let's see, didn't one Of you object to
the formal use of pet name, because it
should only be mouthed by those who
are bound to its owner by the closest ties ?
DO you think womankind are apt to
tolerate to rate, such "a beggary shred
the proper thing tor the wrong man
to call woman by her pet name. if
that is what you mean. But, if there is
any difference, the son of Adam is even
more culpable, who, without proper au
thority, rolls one of your good, old
fashioned, minuet-rhythmed appellation,
under his tongue as sweet morsel in ad
dressing its fair owner.
at strikes me that you fellows would
do we'll TO let well-enough alone i'm tn,
sphere of fashion, whether il appertain!
to feminine front names, the shape ant
garnture of bonnots, the manner o.
wearing the back hair, or what not. AnC
you must admit-and I'm glad of it
that, although they haven't done mucl
talking back, the subjects Of the net
name bobbery have shown their usua
marvellous inability to be convinced
against their own sweet wills in matter
relating to fashion"
Absent mindedness often results no
so much from a wandering mind as by
sudden change or break off. might SAY
from habit, drinking alcholic o
course, remarked the drug clerk tn
other night.
''To illustrate. Yesterday there stoot
before the gleamin spigots Of q soda waite
fountain young lady attired in thu
latest swell costume, swell gray, with TIN
pleasing adjunct of mutton-leg sill
sleeves and bewitching dotted veil
Her escort was gentleman whose ap
pearance indicated the retired rounder
Chocolate and cream, said the summe
glri, nothing for me- remarked th,
former rounder. A commanding lool
from the fair one. Same, same hastily
calculated the stern sex. When the twt
SidcstS NtI6 pidCeu Oh TIE marble SlaD IN
lady took hers daintily in a small laven
der gloved hand and slipped the brown
beverage lightly as butterfly drops on
flower
ITO the CONSERVATION of every one VIII,
witnessed it, the ex-rounder picked M
his glass and deliberately blew the frotf
OH, scattering his patent feathers anC
spottlng the dainty dress of his com
panion, who in voice of ill.represset
rage, said Come with me- then shad,
lower! You brute The brute went on
the door, forgetting the change due hin
out of dollar bill"
For nearly quarter Of a century Mr.
Russ has been baililf at the Distric
Jail, and il he cared to do so he coulC
write book about his experience witt
noted crooks that would be read all oYel
the country.
81 notice, he said to The Carrie re
porter, THAT confinement in the Jail inn
proves the average man to a very great eX
tent. They get fat down there. Blu
Cross, who killed his wife and was sen
fenced to be hanged is an exception to thi
rule. Instead of gaining flesh he loses it
But he is a plucky fellow in his way anC
one OF the most resigned men to his fat
ever had charge of.
There are three other murderers nov
now in the Jail. Seventy year-old JOIN
Heath, who killed Tan with sho
knife, is doing very well. Fred Barber
who killed woman ana threw her owe
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