Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-06-09

the latest dirty scandal, and for some
mean purpose OF his own wishes to
promulgated. He tells 1t by shrugs,
by innuendoes and by smiles; he raises
his hands IN depreciation, but tells the
story just the same, and he spreads it
so well that women are made unhap.
Ply, that men do not know what to
do to protect them, and that house.
holds are thrown into CONSERVATION
and all through the low taste OF one
man. Sometimes, and ! regret verv
much to say it, he manages to get his
scandal put into newspaper, and
then-wel!, what can q woman DO? Ii
she stands before the public and has
husband, brother or father to back
her, she may sue this man for libel,
but If she is simply an ordinary wo.
man, and certainly they are the hap.
piest, she can do nothing but endure
IN silence. One woman not long ago
had the courage to take a case into
court, and congratulate her on win.
ming her suit. That woman was pref
ty Geraldine Ulmar--as dainty 8 bit
OF femininity rs ever existed. When
she was singing the critics had
right to say anything they
felt like about her voice and
her acting, but when she got married
they had no business to touch on her
married lite. She is and always has
been marvelously happy in it, and
that any one should have been mean
enoug b to have started such story
as that she was wretched is something
her friends cannot understand, and
which her own happy looks ought to
deny. The tattler was a man, at least
nature intended him for that when
she built him, but unfortunately she
gave him the mind OF mischief max
ing monkey. That's another type to
beware OF.
Then there is the man who, having
met you once, claims an intimate &C.
quaintance, the man who, having had
business note from you, shows your
signature without telling anybody
what is in the leeter. There is the
man who looks very knowing when
somebody remarks how you are al
ways dressed, and there Is the man
who would eat poor bread and salt
and SANDER you for his thanks. Oh,
there are plenty Of bad men that is
Just as we'll to be thankful that there
are as good ones.
ECHOES OF THE ACTORS FAIR.
By the by, at the actors fund fair
there were three things that did not
have proper attention shown them,
and yet they we're excessively inter.
esting. One WAS the dress worn by
the beautiful Mrs. Jordan, the un.
acknowledged wife OF George III. To.
day this gown is as fresh.looking as
when it WAS new, ana thesi and gold
thread used in the embroidery glitter
as they did when the needlewoman
first put the threads in them. Mrs.
Jordan. by the by, was an ancestress
OF the duke OF Fife, and SC after all
the4e may sit upon the throne OF Eng
land direct descedant OF hers, which
will, of course, unite the stage and
royalty even closer then ever. The
other things were two quilts-one
made in England, and the other here.
The English one had embroidered in
the center the picture OF q church
with a cheerful looking graveyard
about it, and all around were en-
broidered the names OF great English
actors who had crossed over the 81.
lent river; then every actor of any
standing in England has contributed
an autograph. The American quilt
had the names OF all the American
actors, and had been made by a
young woman as she Travelled through
the country. 10 me these three
things were more representative OF
the stage than anything that was
there.
THE MOST POPULAR ACTORS.