The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-02-05


short, people say she is reformer;
but if man wears his pants too short,
they say he is guy.
Ambassador Bayard denies that he
ever said that he would resign IT the
House passed the resolution of censure.
Few die and none resign.
In the light of Gen. Harrison's letter,
his friends in Washington do not doubt
that his decision regarding the Presi-
dencv. which seems explicit enough,
was prompted as much by the wishes
of Mrs. Dimmick as by his own per-
sonal inclination, says the Post.
[ will be impossible for the Senate
and House to fix up a compromise sill
YER bill this time as they did in 1890.
As Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota,
SAYS. there is no common meeting
ground left now for the silver and anti
silver forces. Compromises are at an
end.
The population behind the AZ Sena
tors who voted for free coinage is 49,
599,e43. The population behind the IS
397 .629. But both votes from Illinois
and Ohio were cast against free coin
age when everybody knows that at
least two-ffths of their population IA
vor free coinage.
Talking about dress reform, the di-
vine Sarah says: Tight dresses ne
yaire. if YOU would be graceful. Al
III IL
you would be artistic. / wear no cor
set, nor do / commend any substitute.
BE free, easy; and do not tightly girth
yourself about and the poetry of mo-
ton is soon acquired"
Little Ruth Cleveland is reported to
have said with an air of Importance to
the little daughter of a White House
policeman. whose uniform she greatly
admired:
my papa is President; who is your
papa"
The policeman's daughter defiantly
replied:
my papa is a policeman"
Ruth glanced up at the burly form,
ornamented with bright brass buttons,
and, hanging her head in an abashed
manner, replied:
Il wish my papa was policeman"
As is known, the Argus has hitherto
held unswervingly to the jury system;
but we are free to confss that, with
recent verdicts before our eyes, in the
face of the plainest and uncontro-
verted facts, our faith in the purity
and equity of the jury system is
shaken-and we see rank injustice
stalking at noon-day in our court
houses, which we were wont to regard
and proud to look upon as Temples of
Justice. ''-Goldsboro Argus. And yet,
with its imperfections, there is moth
ing ever yet suggested to take it's place
half as good.
"Bab" talks a heap of sense i'll the fol-
lowing: II heard a clever woman give,
as her idea of the best method of hold
ing a man. this answer: Make him a
creature of habit" Do you know how
much truth there is in that? If you
are in doubt about man try IL. Get
him in the habit of sitting in certain
chair. and he finds most others uncom-
Portable; get him in the habit of seeing
your face smiling at you across the dim
he is opposite another woman. Thatwo-
man who understood man who had
loved many women, that woman who
was neither young nor beautiful,
Madame de Maintenon, said of Louis
the Fourteenth: He is used to every
chair in my room, and if their places
were changed it would annoy him. He
is used to walking a certain distance
every evening to see me, ana TO go fur-
Their or less would be trouble to him.
] know the things that please him, the
food he likes, / know what annoys him,
] know the people who are pleasant
and those who are unpleasant TO him,
and ! never contradict him unless |
feel that he is in remarkably good
health and anxious to impress upon me
how much more he knows than | do.
Then ! start little discussion, but in
il | never give hint of the great
Wedge | possess. j permit him to
coiae out conqueror, and he forgives
me and loves me all the more because
of my seeming ignorance. After man
has passed forty, the woman he loves
is the woman he is used to-"