The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-09


cealed, but the gilded and hollow pretext
is pompously placed in front for show
Cotton.
Many people In modern society, especial
~ young men, seem to choose as motto
''ff not amused not 10 appear amused"
This lack OF concealment OF boredom does
not appear TO strike them as not only in
bad taste. but also evincing a total forget
fulness OF what is due from them as
guests. Indeed, IN accepting hospitality
the presest idea seems 10 be that it is a
give and take affair. where no particular
obligation is conferred by the host or
hostess; II there be an favor bestowed the
guest seems 20 think that he is the oblig-
ing party. II the entertainment is not TO
the taste OF these spoiled children of soci-
ETY. they do not attempt TO conceal their
sentiments.
II do not understand young men now
adays." complained recent hostess. You
know my little cousin has just come out.
and although / have not entertained for .
long time having been in mourning and
out OF IT. all for years, / thought | would
like to do something for the child. So I
gave her little DINNER dance and asked
all the sons and daughters OF my old
friends. After a reasonable time had
elapsed after the dinner / set Lander's man
going at the piano, expecting of course
that the evening would end up in a jolly.
successful little dance. Ny dear, almost
all OF those wretched young men shut
themselves up in the smoking room and
never came out till the party broke up!
Perhaps, in my ignorance. I had not
brought the right set together Perhaps
IL was just modern swagger. but whatever
1t was IL was dreadful The men simply
wouldn't dance, so the girls just sat about
till their carriages came and then went
home. OF course / would never ask any OF
those young men TO my home again. and
my husband says he would like TO catch
any OF them asking him a favor down
town. And yet dare say that not one of
these youths realized in the least that he
made anything but an agreeable impress
sion" Indifference, or perhaps selfishness.
continues the New York Tribune, seems to
be the order OF the day and yet even from
a purely selfish motive it pays to be agree
able. The most successful persons are
those who never allow private anxietes
or worries to affect their manner when
they are in the world. and who can chatter
on gaily even though threats of failure
and home troubles are hanging over their
heads like swords of Damocles. Women
in these instances are more adroit than
men; they have more social conscientious
ness. or PC haps a more innate desire TO
please. But. in any case, cares and ennm
should be left at home. and really good
manners call for forgetfulness apparent
If not reaD of self and kindly consdera-
ton of others.
Lady in Central Park Ito baby in car
riage)-Why. you pretty little thing.
Nurse (proudly)-Yes. it's q good thing.
Policeman, approaching-Wel push it
along then. You're blocking the sidewalk.
The Countess de Castellane tricked out
in all the bravery of Paris. is making her
entree into the aristocratic circles, which,
as the wife Of Count Castellane. it is now
her privilege to enter. Perhaps it would
have afforded some slight consolation to
jay Gould. as he trundled his wheelbarrow
over the Catskills making maps of the
country as he went If he could have fore
seen that his daughter would some day
consort with the Talleyrands, the Tagans
and other families illustrious in the his
tory of France.
IT was Thoreau who advocated walking
10 drive OFF fit of the blues. He says.
Walk, walk, walk. walk rapidly and as
long a distance as possible; walk till you
are tired enough to drop, and walk in the
country If possible. Then home and TO
bed, and ten chances to one when you
awake you will be able TO look at life once
more with a broad, cheerful vision"
The graces of manner and conversation
are gifts Of nature. or the fruits of an edu-
cation begun at the cradle. The grandeur
of desires is in proportion to the breadth
of the Observation-Disclosures.
DR. Lame. a French West Indian physi-
clan. has come 10 the defense OF the much
abused rocking chair. lie has been talking
OF what he calls the good effects that the
lullaby chair exercises on subjects affected
with atony OF the stomach.
Lame says that a course Of rocking chair
after each meal, the oscillations being
quiet and eglIlar, assists gastrO-intestinal
peristaltism. and that dyspeptics should
take notice. The chair ought 10 be light.
so that rocking requires no effort, and suf-
flciently inclined backward. so that the
person may lie rather than sit In II. We
Americans have always been ridiculed as
a nation OF rockers We have even been
pictured as 81. 0l00o0 persons seated in Co.
OO0 900 rocking chairs. We are also known
10 be the worst sufferers from indigestion
and dyspepsia in the world so ii would
seem that we turned instinctively TO that
which has been proven TO he our best sys-
TEN OF relief. At all events Il is a matter
for felicifation that We can return TO our
rocking chairs without being termed yul-
gar by polite society.
An exchange SAYS: THE proper position
for Il bicycle rider is an upright one. He
should push nearly straight downward
with his legs not backward. as one must
do who leans forward. His arms should not
he rigid and extended 70 their fun length
hut a little bent and the handles can be
easily adjusted 10 bring this about. The
reason for the bent or slightly bent arm
IS evident after a moments thought II
the arm is stiff. rigid and extended to rs
fun length the pulp which you give the
handles on going mp hill or. indeed. while
running along a level road is a dead pail
There IS no life In II. Each Jar to the ma
chine is a Tar 70 your body. your head and
neck. and consequently a lar TO YOUR whole
system ON the other hand il YOU ride
with your arms little bent ana acting as
q Kind Of buffer 10 all Earring influences
they III save YOU an injurious though I'M
noticeable shaking up every time you go
ont. The only way you viii notice a
change is after you have become aocus-
toned 70 the bent arm method. Then you
Will ind YOU can ride longer without be-
coming tired.
4 new thf7S for underwear IS called tns
combination trimming" II IS used ex-
te0sively for white uuderskirts. and Is
made OF the finest white lawn. II has
about five inches Of plain goods 70 he fast
ened 70 the skirt with feather stitching.
~ the bottom is a rlfIie az finest ernb-oid-
cry about FIVE inches. making a very e1ab-
crate IS vel as useful trimming. and is
easily adjusted 70 any skirt, making the
p,alnest OF them fancy.