The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-04
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

The Rev. Mary T. Whitney presided at
a gathering of preachers in Boston the
other day.
1t is said that 1t used to take the late
Laura Schirmer Mapleson half an hour TO
make up her hands and arms for the stage.
Some of the social clubs Of the young
Roman Catholics of Paterson, n. j.. are
in a state OF semi-revoit against Bishop
Wigger because OF his new rule that their
evening dances must stop at 1890 O'Clock
sharp.
Sir Harry verney, Miss Florence Night
ingale's brother-in-law, although he is
ninety-two years Old, attended "A meet OF
the hounds in his neighborhood in Eng
land recently. Last year he enjoyed the
skating.
Joseph Jefferson and his wife are getting
ready to go South for the rest of the win
ter. The veteran actor says he has no idea
of retiring from the stage, out will CON
tfnue To act as long as he has thei requisite
strength left.
DR.. w. II. Kerwin, three years ago. in
oculated eight consumptives with the Koch
lymph in Milwaukee. Four of the number
have died since, the others have scattered
and the only one remaining says that he
regards the lymph as a failure.
A Boston lady who brings her children
up very carefully. and never allows them
to see a newspaper, found them, on going
into her nursery the other day. singing:
LIZZIE Borden took an AK,
And gave her mother twenty whacks;
After seeing what she'd done,
She gave her father twenty-one."
The elder sister of Cardinal Manning,
Mrs. Austen, has died. Unlike other men,
bers of their fathers family, she remained
a member of the Church of England. Yates
writes TO the New York Tribune that che
took an elder sisters privilege to write
him piouS little homilieS and was solicitous
for his amusements, trying to persuade
aim Nxrhan hn xH~nU NJ e. n1>AA 4~l LII
IN the Shop windows of Regent street.
Queen Victoria is said to be very par
ticular about people being called by their
correct names. She smartly snubbed IL
certain lady who spoke to her Of the late
Duke OF Clarence as prince Eddy" II
why the Prime and Princess of Wales
give their children nicknames. In my pres
ence L prefer not to have them used. The
Dukes name was Prince Albert Victor"
Emperor William of Germany does some
surprising things. His reconciliation with
Bismarck is only one of many. Recently
his brother Henry with his wife, was Civ
ing a ball at Kiel, when the Emperor,
whom they supposed at home in Berlin.
appeared suddenly among the guests. Be
ing so unexpected, there was no room va
can't for. his Majesty, and so the ruler of
impromptu bed in his brothers study.
A Washington paper tells of a delightful
Mrs. Malaprop, who recently spoke OF an
invali daughter as indicate. Members of
her family, she said, are in the habit of
riding to Baltimore on communion tickets.
Another lady referred one day to a spinal
staircase, hearing which, a bright girl re-
marked: Perhaps she refers to the back
stairs" Another lady refers occasionally
to nashua OF the stomach. and to her suf-
ferings from neurology; and still another
once described the visions which she saw
while IN a state of prance.
"a letter Whittier wrote in 1927, full of
admiration for a young woman named
Bray, who came to Haverhill to have her
portrait painted, shows that he really fell
in love with the painted image, and after
suit OF deepening the feeling. But he
never allowed himself to follow this or
other te temptations of the sort. He is said
ton, n young woman, that no Whittier
ought to marry, for the hereditary temper
was such that no wife could be happy In
continual contact with il.
The accompanying lines, written some
years ago, first appeared in the Toronto
Globe:
When Rosina gives her head a shake and
- pulls her skirts aside,
When she jumps upon the sofa for her
daring bareback ride,
When her slippered toes go twinkling in
and out beneath her dress,
And the queer uncertain motion agitates
each golden tress,
You behold in me a being who all else in
lie IeNOheS
To worship at the flying feet Of Miss Ro-
Sina VokeS.
Well l know that she's a 'Missus," hat
Vokes is not her name,
But l worship her, and love her, and adore
her, just the same;
And although I've never met her; though
perhaps / never will,
From before the footlights' glitter 7 will
idoliZe her still;
And my vision Of Elysium is to leave all
baser folks,
And spend existence dancing round with
Miss Rosina Vokes.