The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-29

A Main Street JeweIer: Four times to-
day have 1 been asked by ladies for gentle
mems wedding rings, and judge from this
the practice of exchanging rings is becom-
ing popular here. In some European coun-
tries not only does the bride receive
O ring, but she also gives one
and among the Anglo Franco mariners
in the east the practice is said to be get
ting least fashionable. The rings are
sometimes set with stones with special
significance. There seems no reason,
other than purely sentimental, why ring
should not be received, as well as given,
by the Bridegroom. and if a distinctive
form were adopted, and the ring made to
fit so tightly that it could not be removed
without difficulty, falling off in divorce
court business might be the result.
A Bookkeeper: There is no question
about the feminine antsgonism to the
feminine typewriter. Married men in this
city who have the typewriters of the
feminine gender in their Offices have only
succeeded in installing them by virtue of
deceit or vigorous crusade at home.
Printing ones name in the newspapers
in complimentary connection is the
broadcast kind Of tiattery and of the most
material sort, and l think l shall say,
without consulting authorities in the case,
that people do like to see their names in
print | remember reading an anecdote
OConnell used to tell on himself He was
just then rising into fame, and in passing
shop window where periodicals were dis
played a picture caught mis- eye and he
stopped to look closer. 1t was the first cut
of the Liberator ever printed and the sight
of it filed him with emotion. He frankly
said to his companion that since he was a
mere child he would stop to gaze at the
pictures of noted men displayed in the
windows, and that he had dreamed and
imagined and prayed for the very emotion
he had just felt. Human nature is the
same everywhere, but some men won t
admit it.
The office and the club are the only
places which a husband frequents from
which his wife is most always barred. 1t
would be Interesting if the exact stats tics
could be gathered to find ont exactly how
many men in this city misrepresent the
sex of their typeWriters in the home circle.
A politician: There has been, in recent
years, much talk about political bosslsm.
My remedy for bossism in election times is
! compulsory voting. We have got manhood
suffrage, and Pm in favor of going further
and making the ballot an obligation as well
as privilege. l would compel every man
| to vote, or, at any rate, make it to every
mans advantage to do SO. The neutral
voters would then be brought to
the front, and these are the men
| who can make corruption in politics impos
sible. Now they don't vote because they
imagine they will be out-voted by the pro-
/ fesBional voters. If the candidate knew
that the men it is impossible to control
would vote they would never buy noming-
| tions, because the slatemakers could never
deliver what they sold. [ am not so old
believe, but 1 may live to see this reform
| carried into effect.
We noticed not long since an assertion in
one of the daily papers to the effect that
there were no good dress makers in Salt
Lake city. No statement could be more
erroneous. for there are thoroughly com.
petent, as well as artistic filters and trim
mers in the city, more too, than can be
found in any place of its size in the Union
and only just lately has an enterprising
merchant engaged an artist from Paris
some people have habit, and tits a very
bad one, of decrying everything that does
not come from distauce-but did YOU ever
notice IT'S those who h We seen the least oil
the world. They are like the blind, never
having been able to see, imagine the
world far more beautiful than i,
is. The friends face the poor by
unfinished rooms are beautiful to
the mind of those who have never looked
upon the face of nature. No class OF
women try harder to please than do dress
understand they take pride in turning
out excellent work, are pleasant, and al
ways accommodating. Then let US en-
courage those in our midst.
What do you thing Of paper, said 8
citizen to HERALD chronicler, that abuses
such spleneid system as our city street
railroads, running in every direction as
they do to reach all, stopping at either side
of our streets, and in the middle of the
block to take on or put off passengers
Such service can be found nowhere else
if now aud then one finds surly or dis
obliging conductor, as 1 did yesterday in
car No. 81 of the Rapid Transit, the Off
Gals must not be blamed, just report the
offender.