San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-14

ency in modern English buildings
Is to do away with stairs in favor
OF inclined planes. Certainly this
is good news to men who invari
able take twenty-one or more
steps in the dark on a twenty. step
stair.
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Feathers are coming IN fashion
again. Though no other trimming
is quite so becoming for ladies'
bonnets, yet none are so capable
of dowdiness. Indeed, the dowdy
woman is never so happy as when
her bonnet mods a feather. And
as you follow fashions dictates,
pray exhibit your womsnly kind
ness Of heart by refusing to wear
feathers that have cost the lives
of birds to minister to feminine
vanity!
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Ten million dollars is the sum
spoken Of as the price the house
of Vanderbilt will pay for that
ducal title. 1t would be dear at
one-hundredth part Of the money.
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United for Life," is a favor
lite newspaper heading for mar
rage notices. Meanwhile the d.
vorce courts continue to grind out
their reg ular grist.
Oh, the distressing condition of
our streets and sidewalks! What
more prominent features of a city
or town do investors, travellers
and visitors wish as guide to
judge progressiveness, enterprise
and self.satisfied population than
by its streets and sidewalks
None. In San Antonio they are
simply in such terrible condition,
that the city is disgraced enough
without further defamation by
properly describing.
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One of the first lessons that the
majority OF naturalized American
citizens need to learn is that of the
importance of personal cleanliness.
Judge Nelson, of Boston, in refus-
ing the other day to receive in
court a candidate for citizenship
who presented himself in filthy
and disreputable attire, laid down
precedent that should be gener.
ally followed. AS Judge Nelson
pertinently observes: "If a man
does not know enough to do what
ordinary decency requires, he does
not know enough to become a citi.
zen ofthe United States. 1t is with.
in the power of the poorest man
in America to be respectfully clean,
no matter how poor his clothes"
This may not be law in accord
ance with the statutes, but it GER
tainly is common sense.
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Why do so many people who
cherish notoriety act so disgrace
fully? Take for instance, some of
the prominent characters who, for
"sweet charity's' sake, promul-
gate and engineer different events
personally, and when the business
is wound up, withhold enough OF the
funds procured by that means to
pay them handsomely for their time
and trouble? Then go into print
as philanthropists, when, truly,
they did not contribute one dollar,
but merely prosecuted a scheme
whereby they could accumulate
money. Then fiatter themselves
as being smarter" than the ignor.
ant public.
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Women who dread gowipg old
and what woman does not?-should
remember Charles Dudley Warmers
remark when asked to address the
girls of a young ladies' school in
st. Louis. After glancing at the
800 fresh, expectant young ladies
before him and then at the group
Of teachers, many Of whom were
gery-haired, he said: at is beau.
tiful thing to be chaming young
lady, and the best of 1t is you will
some time have chance to be a
charming old lady"
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Man seems content to admire
the beautiful; woman is content
only to be the beautiful; and SC
whatever goes to make or mar
the beauty Of her personal appear.
ance Is Of more vital import to her
than to man and that which il
sometimes named vanity in
woman, may be, after all, her un
conscious tribute to beauty itself
by seeking its likeness in her owr
fann and form Tho nHort "a a.aa.