Middletown transcript., 1895-02-09

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that were either
49, masculine or had
no sex seggestion. Nobody could tell
whether or not Currer Bell was man
or woman. In fact, there is reason to
believe that Charlotte Bronte on the
title page would have handicapped
"Jane Eyre" George Sand, too, won
an audience that would have been
impossible to Aurore Dudevant,
as did George Eliot one that
would have whistled Marion
Evans quite down the wind.
Coming nearer our own time there is
John Strange Winter-who is in pri-
vate life Mrs. Stannard-and John
Oliver Hobbs, the sensation of at
least London week, who is really
Mrs. Perry Cragie. Then in America
| there is Octave Thanet, known to her
friends as Miss Alice French, and
| Charles Egbert Craddock, whom all
the world has heard of, though only
about half would recognize her as
Miss Murfree. .r. s ID.
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Mrs. Charles II. Spurgeon refuses
to contribute in any manner to church
bazaars, alleging as her reason the
following: 81 have seen so much of
the evil they bring in their train, the
heart-burning and jealousies they
| create, the worldliness of spirit they
foster, and the love of dress which
they promote, that on these accounts
| alone must judge them to be not as
becometh the Gospel of Christ, and
therefore not to be permitted or in
dulged in by the true Christian. Ba-
zaars are essentially of the world,
worldly; they suit its tastes, its habits,
its weakness and its vanity, and fit in
admirably with the present terrible
mania for betting and gambling"
~
Mrs. George Gould is very kind to
beginners and wouder fully symps
thetic and helpful to any woman
whose life is not the bed of roses
W hich hers has been. A bright and
gifted girl recently came from the
South. Her name was Miss Jean
Wilson, and although she had gained
a name in Washington by her clever
recitations-full of Southern fire and
witchery-she was stranger in New
York and knew no one. She had some
letters; one was to Mrs. Gould, and
this gracious woman, after hearing
the elocutionist recite, engaged her
| at once to entertain her guests. Miss
Wilson, as it happened. was not onl
a wage Garner but took care of a
blind mother. There is nothing ex-
traordinary in the case, but it only
shows how far a little gracious tact
will sometimes reach.
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Mrs. Wilcox, a clerk in the Treasury
Department, is grandniece of An
drew Jackson, and the first child born
in the White House. In this latter
connection she tells quaint anecdote
of her childhood days. Her uncle
always spoke of her and referred to
her as the little one who came to them
in the White House. Regarding this
as a meaningless and empty honor,
she took him aside upon one occasion
when he was about to address mum
Der of his friends. "Now, don't tell
them," she said, THAT was born in
the White House. Tell them that
am twelve years old and that am
head of my class and that I am study
ing Latin.n He did as she bade him,
quoting her verbatim. She was in
her infancy when the cornerstone of
the Treasury was laid, and beneath
it there is a curl clipped from her baby
head. To-day she is a worker in that
same department. Who can tell when
the wheel of fortune turns what fate
will befall?
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Mrs. Grannis is not the first crusader
against decollete bodices, AS long
ago as 1916 the New York Weekly
Museum republished from London
paper the following important eau
ton:
Ladies who are accustomed to
wear their dresses extremely low in
the back and bosom, or off the shoul-
ders, are particularly requested to be-
ware of a person who has for some
time past frequented all places of pub
lie amusement and many private
parties. He is an elderly gentleman
of venerable appearance and correct
manners. His constant practice,
when he observes lady dressed in
the manner above described, is, with
an apparently accidental and almost
imperceptible pressure of little in
strument which he carries in his hand,
to imprint the following words on her
back or shoulders: Naked, but not
ashamed The stain is like that pro-
duced by lunar caustic; washing will
not remove it, and it becomes more
visible upon exposure to air, SO that
nothing but covering can conceal it.'
There's an idea for the reformersl
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Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt may be
an heiress to paltrv $35, 900, 600 or so,
but she has been brought up in the
practical ways which her sensible
mother thinks a proper part of a.
girls education. She has a little suite
of apartments in the new palace, her
boudoir, bed room and bath tub and,
of course, very lovely brushes and
boxes and furniture, which delight all
girls hearts. but she has to keep her
own frills and laces intact, and keep
her rooms in order. She has no maid