The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-08
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

eve are inundated with n flood of weak
writing Charles Dudley Warner asserts.
Take the Sunday-school literature. large
ly the product of women: it HASN'T as much
character as drieG.a pie
JULIA MARLowE. the actress. il said to
have wonderful memory. As a test. not
long ago. she committed to memory and re-
cited the entire letter of Baron Fava to
Secretary Blaine after 1t had been read but
twice III her presence.
THE Emperor of China rises every MORN
ing at 3, and, after light meal. goes to the
Palace Temple for prayer and meditation.
Breakfast il served at z, and dinner at in
the afternoon. He goes hard to work again
after this meal. and at sunset his Majesty
retires to the land of SOmnus.
The devotion Of the Prince of Naples to
his lovely mother. Queen Margherita. is. at
present, the strongest attachment the
young man knows. Her influence over
him is great and his culture. refinement
and thorough preparation for the position
which he is to fill are all largely due to her
ennObling influence.
FANCY Mrs Wanamaker's correspond
ence! In her Sunday-school class in Phila-
delphia there are $50 members Mrs. Wana-
makers residence In Washington compels
her to give over her class to a substitute.
but by no means has she lost track of her
scholars. She corresponds personally with
nearly every one of the 49,
KATE FIELD relates In o way that admits
of a suspicion that she was the young lady
in question q bon mot of Walter Savage
Lanaor: He having dropped his spesctacles
one day, an American girl picked them up
for him. whereupon he exclaimed with
much grace, "Oh. this is not the first time
you have caught my eyesn'
AMERICAN Methodists will be interested
to know that the Rev. Hugh Prince Hughes
editor of the Methodist Times, and leader
of the forward movement" will arrive in
this country about Sept. % and engage in q
lecturing and preaching tour through the
States He will find wide field for his
labors and big crop to harvest.
JUDGE PRUDEN, of Ohio, who has been
making an extended tour Of Alaska, says
that he thinks the natives of that land are
of Chinese or Japanese, rather than of In
dian descent. They have many of the pro-
nounced mental characteristics of the Mon
golian race. while they bear absolutely no
resemblance to the ty pical Western Indian.
THE claim that the Empress of Austria is
becoming insane should be taken with a
pinch of salt. The same reports were
started about her when she was hunting in
Ireland. and showing her talents as horse
woman in different parts of Europe. but
they were laughed down by those who
best knew the strong-minded woman who
cannot bear the restraints of.court life.
THE singu lar confusion of names which
led the Providence Journal to mistake the
late ex-senator PomerOy, of Kansas, for the
once notorious Brick" Fomeroy, has called
to mind the fact that the latter once wrote
to the former asking to what branch of
the Pomeroy family the Senator belonged.
lyon may claim whichever branch You
please" was the reply. land put me down
at once as belonging to the other"
SOME very sensible rules are summed up
by Dr.. Louise Fiske Bryson as ''the great
secrets of beauty" Moderation In eating
and drinking; short hours of labor and
study: regularity in exercise and rest;
cleanliness and, above all. equanimity of
temper and equality OF temperature. To
be good looking and to be physically we'll
ono must In general be happy. To be hap
py is q duty, just as style is duty, and
both are in a great measure an affair OF IN
tellect and management. The ardent pur-
suit of good looks sums up the best there is
in hygiene, and is a legitimate means of
health "ol