Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-01-10

abroad. rot o. a refined and well dressed
laEn he Dir. Lowell OK AT Lincoln. bar
temporarily. perhaps. by such nan as
IralA.iR,-s nE;l with deep and tzstsng
eo1EelHpt for the r. 5. v. F. business. =
uaa wns would attend a german al tie
qEeen's place dressed IA little brief az
thor1ry and favnskia vest. talking u
ths best time of ths year in which 70 as
sasslsate the beg and other matters for
watch her majesty did not thsn. and
does Mt now. care continental.
imagine. tasa. II yea please. . man
hike Franklin at the ROYAL table sweet
ening his consoEnme. taking OF ths To-
tatson of esops and putting Worcester
shire sauce On his tsrrspsn- Now we
can do this sort OF thing with iuaponity,
because We are great n2tion But az
thai TINE. whsn our currency was print
Ell on Gordon press and oar standing
army ha.t rot lad a new pair Of boots
for SIX inoaths. tie American minister
attending ROYAL doakey party with his
pantai0ons tied down over ths legs Of
his bsootst0 keep TIRE snow oGs and rab-
Biz skin ear tabs sewed on his MacAinaw
hat weail naturally injare Tire s.,oiss
Etzn<ssas os cur nation with foreign
powers.
Here dzeis Sir Bulwer Lytton. who
wrote Iis iaost celebrated poem. "Lu-
ellie" On this ground. Colonel John
Hay lives across Sixteenth street. so also
does Henry Adams, a grandson Of John
Quincy Adams
Imagine. II YOU please. the mighty
contrast between the Washington ri the
present-fun OF elegance. refinement.
difficult words, settled MP with . nice
class Of people like Mr.. Blaine-com-
pare. say. the Washington ~ today.
where | ST. environed by everything
H.. can environ one; compare, say.
such 4 city with the low. wet, SHINE
infested fats where once the rank thistle
nodded in the wind, and the low, some
what valgar Indian. on whom there is
! nothing but shell necklace anda jag.
We live. indeed. in rapidly growing
age, an age og wonderful development.
And this reminds me. though possibly
the reader may not see exactly how, Of a
young inaa whom met in the cars OF
the justly celebrated Richmond and
Dauville Railroad yesterday. He said
that the practical education OF young
people Of both SEXES was subject which
hs thought ought TO be looked into.
s.zst winter lac boarded at the same
house with 4 bright young school mis-
tress whose intelligence was out Of 81
proportion To her extreme youth. for sac
had read and claimed that she could eS-
plain. with the uss of blocks, one OF Mr.
Browaing's earlier poems.
Noticing that the young man of whom
have spoken was wearing at the time q
pair OF trousers around the heels Of
which slight lambrequin seemed 70 be
forming. she suggested, as they became
better acquainted, that as she had been
taught very thoroughly in all branches
of needlewor.z she would be most happy
10 repair tho trousers at any time when
his business was such that he would no.
actually need them.
IL IS needless to say that with beat.
iag heart he one night reached them
through the sparsely opened door of his
apartments and left them III her hands
TO deal with as she might see lit. hes
itate 10 90 ON with this account. bu,
now that have begun it | must not
turn back. When he received the pan
ties ne found that they had been mos,
inseniofsly IaSn2ed where they needed
} il most fct while tho trousers appar-
emily had not suffered in any way, hs
fCuad when he came to examine them
.has the repairs in the foyer had been
made at the expense of the seating ca
pacity.
That is why he says he thinks that the
practical education of women, he fears
is not always in practical hands.