The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-08-16
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

When Schumann was in love he wrote.
I wish l were a smile, tina. i might play
about your Cheeks"
The Queen of Servia. it is said. eschews
soft bed and avoids the down pillows as
she would the plague. She sleeps on a mar
Tow divan spread with a hard. unyielding,
mattress, and without the vestige of a
pillow.
Queen Amelia of Portugal. the lovelicst
crowned head in Europe, and eldest daugh-
ter of the late Comte de Paris, has turned
the application of the X rays to a novel
and praiSeworthy purpose. Her Majesty
has been taking sciographs of the trunks
OF the various court ladies exhibiting them
TO the subjects of the experiments, with
the purpose OF demonstrating the evils of
tight lacing.
Menelek, the Emperor of Ethiopia and
Negus of Abyssinia. has promulgated sew
eral sumptuary laws. Among them is one
forbidding any woman to wear jewels of
gold. This privilege is reserved exclusively
to Empress Taitu. Another law prohibits
tobacco smoking. This Is explained by the
fact that Menelek noticed one day that a
tobacco plant had grown over the grave of
one or his ancestors.
David Starr Jordan, president of Stanford
University, was telling a fairy tale TO his
little girl as hey walked in the garden.
But the practical little maid objected.
lHere ain [ any SuCn tn1ng as a larry.
Perhaps, Barbara" said her learned ia
Their. mindful of certain philosophers, per
maps there isn't n such thing as any
thing. Oh yes. there is cried the child.
there is such a thing as a squash" 4
India is a nation of pawnshops, according
to General Booth. The people think the
cleverest man is he who devises the larg-
est number of ways by which to borrow
money. They put in pledge their lands.
oxen. jewelry. themselves. their children
and their grandchildren, and cases have
even been known where a father, TO obtain
money to defray the expenses of his augh-
ter's wedding. has pledged as collateral
the first child to be born of the union.
European journals report that Henry
Brest, through whom the Venus de Milo
came into the hands of the French In 1878,
has just died, over 100 years old, on the ISL
and of Milo, where he had married a Greek
wSman; He happened to be on the spot
and, struck by its beauty, induced them to
keep the discovery secret. notified the
French consul and arranged for the deliv-
cry OF the statue TO the crew of the French
man-of-war that came to Milo to carry it
away.
Among the Migrants caught on the re-
cent raids on the Bots de Boulogne was a
man who proved that he had an income of
5000 franc a year. He declared that he
had not slept under a roof in ten years,
and that he could not breathe behind a
tional Library. went to a theater in the
evening. then turned into the Bots or un-
der a bridge to sleep; He kept a trunk
went into the washroom there to change
whenever he felt il was necessary. The
police say that he spends a good deal of
money in charity. They had to release
him.
Il pretty story of Professor Herkomer is
told in one of the London papers. His
aged father, who lives with him in his
splendid home at Bushey, used to model
in clay in his early life. He has recently
taken 10 it again: but his fear is that soon
his hands will lose their skill and his work
will show the marks of imperfection- IL
is his one sorrow. AT night he goes to his
early rest, and when he has gone, Herko-
mer, the talented son. goes into the studio,
takes up his fathers feeble attempts and
makes the work as beautiful as art can
make It. When the old man comes down
in the morning he takes the work and
looks at it. and rubs his hands and says:
"Ha. L can do as we'll as ever 1 did,"
Mr. Walter Damrosch, the distinguished
musician and composer, of New York. SON.
in-law of the late Hon. James G. Blaine.
now summering at the Blaine cottage, Bar
Harbor, says of the women's clubs of the
West: THE especially interesting features
Of the artistic life in Western towns are
the women's clubs. and In these the Gull
ture and intellectual life seems to be CEN
tered. They have a tremendous influence,
and 1t is through their efforts that fine
concerts are given and that the artists
are persuaded TO come there. We know
very little in New York of what happeR
in other cities of the country. but it would
surprise New Workers to see the activity
with which the club women advance the
interests of culture in Western towns"
Come. gentle rain. We pine for thee:
The world is blisterin';
Oh, syoOp in torrents wild and free
And fill our ciStern.
Chicago Record.
The boomer girl, with winsome grace,
ConfuSeS one and all,
They look an instant on her face
And then their glances fall.
Brooklyn Life.