The record-union., 1896-10-04

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it once. It's not pleasant. oh, no! but
it's very unusual, and variety, you
| know, is said to be the "spice of life. "
| speaking of cement walks an orig
| inal minded citizen who has a family
| OF children has conceived the idea of
| laying out his sidewalk in a hop scotch
| design for the benefit of the little ones,
| and further suggests that it would be
| a brilliant idea for others to follow, as
| 1T would prevent the marking UP of
walks with chalk. Girls are bound TO
| play hop-scotch in season, just as boys
| play marbles, mumbly peg and the like.
| There is a pleasant home in Sacra-
mento whose family consists of-We.l
never mind how many; that doesn'
''cut any figure" as the saying goes,
and I don't intend to give you clue
to work upon, but simply wish to relat te
a few facts in connection with the sub
ject, that may be of benefit to wives and
mothers in like case.
Of all detestable characters scandal
monger is the most mangey, morally,
and most thoroughly to be despised.
| Far be it from me to circulate any re
port that might bring no end of trouble
and misery to some family in the tell
ing. But in this particular case I want
to bring one misguided little woman to
see how the world and particularly hyp-
ocrtical Mrs. Grundy, who smiles ncr
graveyard-y smile in your face, While
she rolls her wicked eyes and lifts her
ey ebrows behind your back, looks upon
1t ALL
This little woman is not happy in her
domestic life; indeed, like so many
other unfortunates who have made
! marriages unsuitable, from disposition,
taste and many other causes too nu-
merous to mention. she is truly misera-
BILE Her husband Oh, yes she has Il
husband, but whether he doesn't ua-
derstand her. doesn't want to under
stand her, or-understands somebody
else far better, is the question 1 am un-
able to answer What does it matter?
oh. promise you it matters a great
deal Under these circumstances the
heart feels very barren and alone, but
when there are children growing up, as
in this case, future men and women.
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er's, whose example par excellence she
Is in all they do, and whose only real
| knowledge of heaven lies within the
light Of mothers eyes. Mother, that ho-
! liest Of names, next to that Of our
| Maker, that our tongues can know or
! speak, ought II not to make a differ
ence? I think so. A mother has the
immortal souls of her children upon her
| conscience until they come to years of
| discretion at least-a true mother feels
| the responsibility all her life and theirs.
| the little woman in question has evident
| " not thought it out in just this light;
| she loves her children, oh yes, but IN
| her heart hunger for a love that is on an
! equality with her years, comradeship
such as she has missed where she should
! have found it, in her husband she has
! turned TO a young bachelor, who was
once but a pleasant caller at her home,
1 and he, after the manner of single men,
/ who have no one to answer to for their
! shortcomings, was not at all 10th to re-
! ceive the favor and homage Of a woman
| IN her position in life-at first. Now
1 well. L think from the indications his
( Irritation begins to pail upon him-is be-
! coming too serious very likely; that is
! natural enough. It could hardly be ex-
pected to last as a healthy, Legitimate
/ affection between two people who ex-
| pect in the natural course Of true love
/ to marry eventually would do.
This will meet her eye in all prob
ability / hope it will, and in the read
/ ing / hope, in all kindness. that it will
/ convey to her the fact that her name
the name of an honorable woman, the
mother of sons and daughters who are
daily growing toward young man and
womanhood, which surely she desires
| above all things to be beyond reproach
/ is being coupled in no very fattering
terms by her intimates dts the way OF
! the WORLD with the name of the young
man whom she believes she adores, and
whom she further believes entirely re-
| ciprocates her affection for him. Can
| she be made to believe that her former
| friends are beginning to look at her
askance: that others laugh at her: still
! others handy her name about like smut
! tlecock? Yet ] know there is no rea
| harm in this woman. Affectionate
| warm hearted. impulsive, she has sim
ply obeyed unreasoningly the impulses
| Of a too-loving heart If she will but
take warning from this she may yet
save herself, for her children's sake
If not for her own, from Il POSITION "IilCL
cold world only makes mock Of ano
| for which no allowance is made by
either friend or foe.
| At the matinee last Saturday after
| noon during the presentation of by
Order Of the Gar" several very funny
| things occurred which were observable
only from very close proximity to the
| stage. In the first instance, where Mr.
| Lonergan, as the Count, Ill of Siberian
| fever, and in a very realistic condition
| Of delirium, is tossing and mutterine
upon a sick bed. he raised his foot. and
| striking out took Mr.. Stockbridge
squarely in the middle of the back. I'm
Intentionally, oh, of course. AT another
| time the fevered call for water,
| water,' was responded to by nurse and
friends, and his head tenderly raised to
receive the cooling drink, thereupor
making him feel so silly that he was
forced to turn his head aside to concea
the laugh that would not be restrained
Again during the church scene which
was truly very realistic, a young person
in the audience, when the priest lifts
his hands on high to bid the faithful tc
| prayer, and the wedding party all bow
themselves before him, forgetting where
| she was, bent forward and was about