The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

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no wines served, aud really after all it's bet
ter to inform you OF this beforehand and to
let You know that you will have to come down
to Apollinsris water, not having even glass
Of clsrct to take with your dinner, so give
you an opportunity to decline. When will
people understand the real meaning OF tenn
perupce, aud when will people comprehend
that the taking away of glass of light wine
and the giving of tumbler of ice-water will
not reform single drunkard and will make
no end of dyspeptics Have you ever lived
with anybody who had the dyspepsia and
didn't you feel that you hated your kind after
a week of it2 Well, this is apt to be the re-
suit if the nation is given over to ice-I mean
melted ice in the shape of water.
GOTHAM HAS THE BLUES.
New York is dull-inexpressibly, insuffer-
ably dull A few dinner parties are heard OF,
more card parties, but the same moan
is made everywhere, that the season has
come to an end Why in the world
don't New York women follow the fash
ion of the French and English ones, and
when they drive to the park stop their car
riages get out at some given spot, selected
for the purpose, and walk for a little while?
There would be marvellous exhibit
ton of pretty women and fine gowns.
There would be an opportunity for people
who know each other to have a little chat,
and the monotonous drive round and round
would cease. Women from all parts of the
world live in New York, consequently there
are many beautiful ones, and many we'll
dressed ones, and this part of the Park would
grow in time to be the living flower garden
hat all fha ha tn
NEW YoRK's NEW SMART GAME.
Sometimes you get tired of playing hearts,
sometimes you get tired of playing whist you
don't often get tired of playing poker, but
once in while it is just as well to stop, and it
has gotten to be the fad, since the smart
women have taken to literature, to get up an
intellectual game. The men don't like it very
much, because it causes them to think, and
man always resents this when woman is
about. The most amusing one is game
called ''Queries." Questions are written on
slips of paper, sufficient room being left for
answers They are all folded, dropped into
basket, and as thoroughly mixed as a good
punch. Each person draws one, opens and
reads it, writes the answer, folds it again, and
drops it into the basket. Then whoever is
good at deciphering strange handwritings is
appointed to read out loud the result of the
intellectual efforts of the assembly. There
have been some good answers-usually they
have been stolen-but if people can steal good
things it's much wiser than giving original
ones that are stupid. ''What is love?" is
funnily enough oftenest written by man and
answered by woman.
SMART REPARTEE BY CLEVER PEOPLE.
laughed over one answer given to this the
other night. A bold masculine hand had
made clear that never-ending question
''What is love ?''-and in a woman's hand
writing was the answer, ''The selfish desire on
the part of man to make one woman un-
happy" Another that was written by woman
was, stWhen is woman at her best ?'' and the
answer, from a man, said, "When she is like
salad-tender, young, and well dressed"
Somebody was idiot enough to write, ''What is
the best book read 2" and somebody was imper-
tinent enough to answer, in bad pun, ''The
Scarlet Letter." A gentleman with views as
to thcosophy wrote, in a very cramped hand
s'Do you think Barnum went to heaven ?''
and the answer, written by woman, was,
sWhy should he? He had the best show on
earth.n The thing that broke up the game
that night was the question, written by another
innocent young man, s'Should women smoke?'
and the answer, written by another man, was,
"Not il she was my wife, or my sister, unless
she yearned for horse-whipping afterwards" !"
This was discussed to such an extent that all
intellectual efforts were given the go-by, and
'ssassng back" became the order of the even
| ing until peace was brought about by supper.
| However, knowing it is the vogue to be a
| little bit blue, and to be decidedly analytical
| and that it is fashionable, makes the trying OF
the game of queries worth while any place.
DRUG STORE AFTER NEW IDEA.
It's curious thing among the various things
hear of a woman keeping drug shop Could
anything be more delightful than those lovely
little boxes and jars, perfumes and powders
stamps to sell and telephones to hire, higl
prices-in fact, the combination found only il
drug shop? You know, really, if any young
woman wanted to be counted benefactor Il
her race it would be proper for her to have
drug shop and tend people after the theory
which claims that the emotions can be gov
ened by the various medicines. Just fame,
the excitement that would be caused in con
seryative households. If a man came will
some medicine for the dyspepsia, and yor
knew he and his wife hated each other, yol
would give him something that would caus
him to adore her, and then, of course, sh
would grow very fond OF him. If fast youn
mah came in to get some medicine to ward OF
the ID. T.'s, youcould put something in it tina
would make him grow saint-like and thirs
only after spiritual nourishment. If