The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-27
THE GosSIPPER.


cup, saucer and toast rack combined,
and makes charming gift to an in
valid or friend who breakfasts in bed.
1t is presented in fine china, the cup
lovely in shape and with handle. The
plate saucer, as it may be termed, has
a socket for the cup, while one side is
with a rack for toast or muffin, little
butter plate, together with knife rest.
Things of this sort are usually heavy
and awkward to use, but this, for
tunately, is not so.
In another year, if sleeves had kept
on growing bigger, we might have had
proclamation such as this, ordered
by the court of Massachusetts in 1853:
Hereafter, no person shall make any
garment for women or any of the sex
with sleeves more than one-half an ell
wide in the widest place thereof, and so
proportionably for bigger and smaller
persons" And now ohio attempts to
regulate the size of women's headwear
/ by legislating upon its unreasonable
proportions at the theatre. Pity It's
that women's good sense and good feel
ing are not sufficient to make such
legislation unnecessary.
One of the seasons fancies Is college
tankards and mugs, which were used
as commencement gifts, and which Will
form a pretty present in the fall to
freshmen as they are entering upon
their four years course. The drinking
sets are of glass and richly colored
with flags of the college colors, sur
rounded by rhyming couplets in old
English lettering, introducing the col
lege yell" The tall, slender glasses
are of the same general character, and
the two form most ornamental side
board appendage, or will grace consid-
erably the side table of the under
graduate. Girls with sentimental pre-
objections for certain institutions of
learning may use the same sets for
iced tea or for lemonade.
I always think, when some pitiable
failure of Christian" life proves the
| old proverb of faith without works, of a
story which I translated from French,
| at the mature age of 10 years. 1t was
| the story of two monks who lived in a
| little cabin surrounded by a small gar
den. They both had flower gardens,
and as they were holy men, never COM
planned when the crops were poor or
when it failed to rain or when the
river rose and drowned the beans and
| potatoes and melons because they said
sit was the will of God" Nevertheless,
| the garden of one old monk was always
| in a more flourishing condition than
that of tn. other. The roses bloomed
| and the melons ripened and the hedges
were never choked with weeds. One
! day the unlucky gardener said to his
| brother: How is it that your flowers
and fruits grow better than mine?
| pray every morning in my cell for
rain. But your green things seem to
thrive in the heat"
And the second monk made answer:
ST. too, pray, but still l am wedding
and watering
This little story was recalled to me
by an amusing tale which comes from
England about a brave soldier of the
Church Militant: "He was six feet
two in his stockings. He had once
been wounded as midshipman on board
the Spartiate at Trafalgar and after
ward got commission in the Fifteenth
Hussars, where he was one of the best
lightweight bruisers in the regiment.
Subsequently he took holy orders and
| went to do duty for a friend in War
wickshire. The ribbon weavers in the
congrega ton were an excitable lot of
men, and when he got up to preach
they evinced their dislike to him as a
stranger to the parish by catcalls and
| unpleasant epithets. Thereupon, adj
dressing them, he said: You are a
pack of cowardly fellows, who would
not dare to act as you are doing if you
thought I could defend myself; but
have served the king in his navy
and army, and if you will pick out
your best man I will go into the
churchyard and have it out with him
They did so. Their champion got Sc
verely the worst of the encounter. Then
they took the parson on their Shout
ders set him again in the pulpit, and
| listened to his sermon as quiet as
mice, and when the old minister died
petitioned to have him appointed to the
vacant charge"