Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-11-01

clerk in haberdasher shop could down
him. There are men who, all their
lives long, are known by initials, be-
cause they realize the folly or having
been given fashionable name. rata-
er like the Southern fashion Of giving
to the oldest daughter her mothers
maiden name; It doesn't Undue her WIN
any masculine instincts, and it seems,
in pretty way, to make her cling 10
the girlhood of the past.
A hunt through dictionary of names
has proven to me that Barbara means
"a foreigner" or somebody who Is
strange; l don't believe in that diction-
airy.
BARBARA AND PERSIMM0NS.
have heard people say that Barbara
reminded them OF unripe persimmous,
but they were people who didn't like
somebody named Barbara. I like the
name quite as we'll as If my godfather's
had asked my advice before bestowing
it upon me. By-the-bye, its funny how
little the average godfather thinks OF
his duties a silver mug, a case con-
tanning a knife and fork and spoon,
either of silver or silver gilt, and be-
hold! the gentleman who has promised
to stand between you and the devil
thinks he has done all that is necessary.
I wonder if he expects you to prod all
emissaries of his Satanic Majesty with
your fork? Perhaps he concludes that
his duty Is done in offering you the
weapon necessary for conflict and that
he is not required to stand by you as
an active second. 1t would seem TO
me that a godfather or mother, If he
thought about it at all, promised good
many things, and that it is a position
that is really Of great importance.
But there! Have you any doubt of
THE REALITY OF THE SEA-SER-
PENT?
It may be that he is not known in the
flesh, 10 whatever olOgists would natur-
ally hunt him up. but Il is very certain
that commercially, he has an existence.
A piece of him, his skin, made into a
bag mounted in silver gilt, was offered
to me by a talkative salesman for the
moderate sum OF twenty-five dollars
asked the glib young man who exhibit
ed this bag if he was sure that It was
made of sea-serpant's skin, and he said
he was just as sure as II he had skinned
the serpent himself by the sad sea
waves. The leather looked like ordi-
nary snake skin, but as tTuth-tellers
alone are behind counters, gazed with
admiration at the piece Of the sea-ser-
pent, so degraded although l did not
purchase him. Ny reason was that /
thought if l waited long enough the
CHI n
made Of the skin Of a mermaid, and
that would be something rather unique.
The unique rules in all the small be-
lOngiGgs. jewelers. are showing, as the
latest in cuff links-that is, the London
jewelers.. for l don't believe these links
have reached New York yet-what ara
known as the
"ROAD TO RUM CUFF LINKS.
They are oval. and on them is enam-
elct the easy ways by which TO follow
the rake's progress. On one link Is a
champagne bottle, opposite Il Is a ballet
girl. The other pair shows on one side
a court card, and on the other the heaG
Of a horse So you have offered 10 yol.
In a picturesque way, wine, women, hor-
ses and cards. ANY one Of them IS cal
culated, II enough IS taken, 20 ruin the
average man. but all four of them, in
dulged in 10 excess, means quick ruin.
wonder If he cuff links viii teach any
body a lesson? ! am afraid not the
Prdciigal Son is usually so wei satisfied
with himself that he thinks he could
learn nothing.
BY the by, the advanced woman who
wants 70 ride a. horse or her bicycle In
man fashion, doesn't realize that her d.
vided skirt, about which she likes 70
talk, is almost as Obj as the hills.
THE DIVIDED SKIRT
As far back as 1889, the deyantiere,
which is in reality the divided skirt,
was worn by the women Of the Court
O France TO whom the side-saddie, un-
iii it was introduced by Catherine dc
Medici, was unknown. Many ladies'
did not care TO wear trousers, and so the
divided skirt was arranged for them.
Seyer,E fur-trirnmed devantieres are
cound in the wardrobe list Of Isabel OF
Bavaria. the wife Of Charles VI. ! tell
vou there IS absolutely nothing new.
In those days OF long ago men might not
have cultivated their brains quite as
n,ch from the hook standpoint as they
DO now. but how they did know hu-
,rerilv! What diplomats they werei
How they grew 10 read the meaning OF
laugh, OF a smile, OF Il iroWn' ana now
thew could talk aud never finch, WINE
they handled a poisoned sweetmeat' or
realized that an assassin was waning
in the corridor to kill chem. Those were
the DAYS when men had to keep their
wits about them and sharpened by use.
The man of to-day, who understands
many languages, who counts himseh
very wise. laughs at the courtier VINO
played with cup and ball; but he 1T
lie knows how the mans mind Waa
working as he tossed the ebony ball up
ami s;rived to catch It as It fell. The
game NAV have seemed u child's play
hat life in those days needed not on.y
the trained mind, the wits ever on the
alert, but they needed a perfect KNOW
edge Of
and today diplomacy Is almost an un-
known art. Some one said IL cleo out WIN
Beniarnin Disraem. There is not half az
much I'm knowing people and their minus
for the book is always the same ouI Ihe
neople change from day 20 day ana he
whom YOU thought you understood yester-
dav. may be a wonderful puzzle to you To-
dav, And the great book Of the world new
or Tolls "a interest that reader who takes
.bo time 10 study It. The why's and tho
,,,terafores the everlasting changes the
fall Of the curtin when sleep comes ana
tho certainty that YOU nevoS eau count OF
the climax being reached until death ap-
t.ars. makes fl book that demands d
wondrous knowledge in reading. There
must be an appreciation Of influences an
understanding of the emotions compre-