The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1895-09-19
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hepds most of the characteristics noted in
day spent in shopping there. Mind that 1t
was only one day, and that the observation was
merely incidental to the great business of shop
ping.
One can buy things very cheap there; also.
one can buy very cheap things there, which IS
good for the discriminating shopper and most
sad for the ignorant one.
The small boys essay on girls was: "Girls
are pretty and afraid of guns They wear toe
rubbers and look at the clouds and say. Oh,
how perfectly lovely" or course it does not
do complete justice to the sex in its youth, but
1t has large element of truth in a small space
IS
A milliner who Inhabited the second story OF
a building in one Of the business blocks, right
down among the electric cars, told us solemniy
that the grasshoppers ate her carpets. She
said she continually bothered with them,
and that was why she did not come immedi-
ateiy in the front and shop end OF her apart
ments to wait on us. She had been chasing
them out all morning because it was just be-
tween seasons and there wasn't much going on
In the millinery limo, and she didn't think we
meant to buy anything. She did not say the
grasshoppers came in from the fields On tho
electric cars. We guessed that We never be-
fore heard of grasshoppers making dict OF
carpets, bat she told US so. We were strangers
in the city, there appeal, so we be-
lieved her. If the story be not true, then 1t is
someone elses fault.
1t is funny fact that in all Of the stylish
eqnipages and tagging after the prettiest petit
coats were pug dogs. After watching with sat-
isfaction the craze for these ugly, little, con-
ceted beas,ies die out In other places. it was
exceedingly melancholy to come across it there.
Whether the good ladies there have Just ac-
CURED the fad, or whether they have had it
from the first and only more constant in
their affections than the women of other cities.
is query. Anyway, it was sad to see Mon
sieur Pug so much petted.
They are showing the gayest of the gay
Scotch plaids, aud some that are not clan plaids
at ALL but gayer yet though modelled on
the same plans. These silks are for waists this
Winter-to DO worn with dark skirts and dark
stylish, and il not too Overwhelmingly gay are
also both pretty and becoming The real
Scotch plsids are beautifully blended in their
coloring. The Land black and tho red and
white ones are not so pretty-except the Stuart
plaid, which is very dainty-but the dark
blue and green with crimson and yellow in fine
Iines-hsrdly more than a thread Of tho
yellow-is exceedingly handsome.
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There is great deal in the account of the
woes of the brotherless girl. She may not
have had to endure endless tcasings but there
is some knowledge that she has not that if she
had would make life easier, as the account
goes on to say:
\ THE girl who has grown up among girls
alone, who has had no brothers-terrible loss
| Of delightful intimacy-no brothers friends,
! is very sincerely to be pitied. Her mind in
| this case may be wholly feminine: in it there
| is no touch Of comprehension of the MASCULINE.
| Yet she Iaay marry and have to learn by sx-
| perieBce what she might have known by q
| kind OF instInct-that men are not the same as
| women. 1t is impossible for q man to realize
| how deeply wounded such girl may be before
she learns to accept facts as they Before
| the honey moon is over she discovers what she
| considers an unaccountable want of sy pathy
OH the part of her husband. In all matters re-
| lzting herself he is genuinely interested. but
! the home letters seem to bore him. or he shows
| frankly that he is only Interested in them
because she is reading them aloud to him. He
forgets things she tells him about her friends
| and is curousiy iRattentive to details. He
| even leaves the little pin that she bought as
surprise for him lying carelessly about, and
| whom she makes him up Aswer for his but
| ton. hole he laughs, aud asks her il she wants to
| l.
! She discovers one of the silk handk erchefs,
which she herself has embroidered with his
| initials, has been used to clean q pipe. She
| hides her feelings. but she is used to en-
| larrng the Importance of little things that
| these seem to betray the fact that her husband
| does not care for her as he did. When the honey
| moon is over and they are settled at home, the
same want is apparent For one thing, the
| man never says ke loves her he did at first.
| He may show 1t in hundred ways that are
| far more costly than words, but woman who
| is wholly woman and nothing more WAITS
words. She is always imagining things. She
wants him, and him Alone but he often goes
off for a whole day hunting shooting, and
seems to enjoy it, though sire is not there. The
! bitter thought that she is learning by expert
| ence that a mans love Is but part of mans
| lifo' makes her miserable. aud If she is jeal-
Gus woman she will end by making everyone
| else in the household miserable, too. But if
| she - Sen5l0lo the hc2rtache Will pass away,
| she will get to understand her husband, and
| learn herself to become seif.controlled aud re-
| frain from worrying him about the small mat
| tiers that up till then have formed her world.
| The girl with brothers will probably learn her
| lesson before marriage; she knows that men are
| different from women, neither better nor worse
| butI a iffsrenk aud she will have cherished no
| ideals to overturn in the honey moon." -Argo-
nad
III town in New York State, Montour Falls,
| there is mn association so excellent in its plans
and works that it would seem desirable for
other communities to take hold of the idea for
| the benefit of their swn towns. It is Evil
| Iage improvement Association" aud its MEM
bers are the citizens, young and old, men and
women. who are interested In the welfare of
their town. Most towns are far from beautiful,
| and are in many ways even incoRvenient, and
they need just such an association OF citizens.
| WE'LL this association has already done good
| work in Frightening the streets and in tear
| ing down shabby and useless barns, fences and
| sheds. OF course. they must first buy these of
their owners. They raise money for their
work by subscriptions and by giving concerts.
| Then, they themselves are interested, and try
to interest their townsmen in every effort to
| make the place clean, com Portable and beauti-
| full They use their influence with the Legis-
| lature in favor of reforms, and constantly