The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-15
LOOKING CLASS.

glories by the roadside and In the com
mon fields in the country. 1t is regard
cd a. O nuisance bv the farmers, but 1t
appears that 1t may soon be OF CONNER
cial value. IL haS been growing In favor
for several years. until now IL is regard
cd as the proper artistic caper tn appre-
ciate golden rod and rave over its beauty.
So popular has it become that those
shrewd people who make fortunes by
selling flowers and the like on the streets
of the larger cities have turned their at-
tention to it and have begun this year to
contract will farmers TO gather and ship
the blossoms daily. Boxes are provided
which preserve the freshness Of the fow-
ers, and they are shipped daily to the
ci ty and there put on sale on the streets
and flower stands.
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A short time ago the Corliss Steam En-
rine company built an improved gas
motor for q. B. Wattles. an inventor
from Elizabeth. N. j.. but formerly of
this city. The manner In which the ma
chine was constructed struck Mr.. Wattles
very favorably and he has since induced
the comp any to take up the manufacture
of nu iber of spccialties, mainly auto
matte machinery. The works, which I r
so ne time have been prac ically idle. are
now running on full time, and
the manufacture OF Mr.. Wat
ties specialties Is progressing quite
rapidly. Mr.. Wattles is brother OF l..
II. Wattles. who. with George +. Corliss,
invented an automatic regulator some
time ago. Mr.. l.. ii. Wattles. together
with Mr.. Corliss. have been conducting "a
number of experiments for the improve
ment OF the machinery, which, up to last
year, was manufactured by the: concern.
The specialties, the manufacture OF which
has recently been commenced, are the in
vention OF Mr.. c. R Wattles and are
considered to be very good.
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'T should like the Looking Glass bet
ter" writes Providence woman, "if IL
occasionally had something that pertains
expressly and solely to women. Men
can't appreciate, suppose. the fact that
women like to see paper cater somewhat
to them and he things that interest
them. aud they do not understand how
women look through the papers
to see IL they can't find some new idea
that pertains to their work or their life. !"
Surely 30 old a person as the Looking
Glass does not need to be told these
things, and yet the corn Is acknowledged.
So / called on u dressma ser this morn
inR aud asked her to help the out OF the
difficulty. Here is what she said: white
petticoats are supplanting silk skirts In
good fashionable society. and there is a
sweet and dainty grace to the hutter OF
lace fiounces qui unknown TO the ele-
CANT rustic of silk frills 1t is unfortun-
ate that fashion ever goes by extremes,
for once the muslin petticoat prevails we
sholl be called upon to dra its soiled bor-
ders over the pavements, when q
silk skirt Is much moro suitable.
White is the approved color for all lin-
gerie again; the day of color has pissed.
Lace fiounces, sometimes four deep. edge
everything. Even the slumber gowns
and the petticoats are made like the bal
let dr ce IS skirts, with two deep flounc es.
zach mp lied generously with lace wed
to ne deep yoke at the Top, or gatn-
cred on TO the skirt at the knees"
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"What can not understand in this
ime of currency strIngency," said an mp
own grocer tnis morning els. why do
not the banks, the big mill corporations,
railroads and other people who have large
sums to pay out in psy lis take some Of
the coined silver that Uncle Sam has
stored away in his capacious
vaults There isn't one man out
IF hundred who would not
prefer silver to the check system. There
is coin enough to pay off every pay roll
In the United s ates for weeks to come
locked mp in the. treasury and sub treas
ury. Yet banks right here In this city
are insisting upon giving clearing house
certificates iustead of cash. Tney
absolutely refuse to give up cash.
or at least some Of them do.
I'd like to see some one who had nerve
enough to accept any clearing house cer-
tificate and demand cash, and il it was not
for Incoming apply for a receiver. II l
deposited $1,000 in cash today. and in my
business or for any purp sc have need
Of mouey tomorrow / have a right to de.
mand cash, and a failure 10 give it Is not
different than the failure of the Stat bank
to u Get the checks issued against it. The
banks are fully as much responsible for
this stringency as any one else. They
proceed like bankrupt concerns and ex-
pect you to pay your bills, meet your pay
rolls with wind aud set af ,at hundreds
Of checks so that a merchant who &C.
cepts them rs cash is mighty apt to get
LETT and find that he has taken
bogus checks and is out their face value
1t is an incentive to crime that will
readily be taken advantage of by sharpers,
and indeed / understa ID that in some
cities bogus checks are flying around
very freely.
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But for the fact that IL has the Boston
Ira script for a sponsor, the Looking
Glass would be tempted to doubt the
authenticity of the most recent St ory Of
Hawt horne's connection with Long
fel ow's Evangeline. There has been the
generally accepted We rsion that Haw-
thorne found the incident recorded by the
,oet unavailable as the foundation Of n
,rose romance, and then placed it at
tongfellow's disposal. Bnt the Boston
Transcript has an interview with an old
Salem gentleman named Horace Inger-
soil. who gives a different version. He
has had notion of telling in print how
Ha thorne missed writing the novel. but
says he never got round it." AS he ,ve
the story to the Transcript it is as follows:
"The facts of this story were originally
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