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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28
BAB'S BUBBLlNC
PATRIOTISM.
She Temporarily Side Tracks Fasaiops For a
Dissertation on the Lessons Taught
by the War With Spain.

goes. In fashionable restaurants Span
lsh mackerel are never eaten, while Ill
all the comic operas the Spanish dances
are entirely omitted.
But, testing aside, hasn't It been love-
ly to see how the north and the south
have met together and how apprecia-
tive the men in power have been oil our
splendid southern fighters? Why, when
the blograph shows n picture of Fitz-
Hugh Lee and the orchestra plays
Dixie" women bang their umbrellas
on the floor because that makes more
noise than clapping, small boys yell
"Hurrah" and the men-why, the men
Join in the song and applaud the dis
tingulshed gentleman who may occupy
any position that the United States can
give him provided he wishes 1t. The
Lees are gentlemen. and II takes a gem
tleman to be a fighter, even II he Is only
n gentleman of one generation and can
not write his own name. But how sturdy
the Lees have been! They fought
for the colonies in the war of indie
pendence, they fought for what they
believed was right in the civil war, and
now their great representative offers
his hand to fight with and to greet his
brave brothers whether they come
Texas.
But to return to the present war.
Did the Spaniard ever attract you? To
me he always seemed like colored icing
on pound cake. It looks pretty enough.
hut everybody breaks 1t OF before eat
ing a bit of the cake. They have al
ways been traitors and always brutes.
Tenderness In Spaniard is an un-
known quantity. At ordinary times he
is rated as a beast In war he is a
| coward, and when you think how he
treats women and children what name
| Is bad enough for him? The war today
| brings back to me all the stories that
| have been told me of that last war
when brother fought against brother
and friends became enemies. In Balti-
more, as all the world knows, there was
n great deal OF strong feeling. but as
the city was always held by the army
in power some very funny and some
| very sad stories are told. The funniest
I have heard was about young woman
| whose sweetheart was in the southern
army. She hung out OF the window of
her bedroom, which fronted on the
street, what seemed to be black flag
and black flag, as you know, means
sedition, In very few minutes a
company OF soldiers came to the house
rang the bell and asked for her mother
Her mother knew nothing about 1t. The
girl was brought down, looking as in.
nocent as baby, and when she was in
formed that she was to be arrested fol-
daring to do such n thing, for daring
to defy the authorities, she began t.
laugh and said: "Why, captain, that Il
not black hagl That ia only m!
grandmother's shawl pinned on
broomstick and hung out to airl" tn
captain. being human. hid his twitch
ing lips behind his hand and then ad
vised her that in the future when he
grandmother's black shawl needed air
ing 1t would be best to hang 1t on
clothesline in the back yard. And didu
t that girl Taught And doesn't she tie
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that story today to her own children.
and yet-and yet one Of her boys was
on the Maine!
But when n regiment was going
through the city in those days - ah
that meant something, for it was a
company Of southern prisoners being
taken to northern prison. The law
allowed anything in the shape OF some
thing to eat to be handed from the
pavement to any soldier by any person.
but speech was not permitted. When
the word came, my old nanny. who
has told me of this n hundred times,
began to make big tlnfuls Of coffee,
while her assistant baked hot rolls. and
the mistress OF the house busted her
self fixing sandwiches and tying up lit
tie packages of tobacco or cigars. Just
think of 1t! You could stand on the
curbstone and hand cup Of coffee to
the man you loved dearly. and yet you
couldn't say one word. But many n
southern girl sandwiched note in n
biscuit, and many a cup of coffee had,
besides its lump Of sugar, Il good dash
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tune 1t is fine, but the girl who is left
behind ofttlmes suffers more than the
man who. going into battle. has his time
80 occupied that he scarcely remembers
to grieve. | saw her the other day.
She was clinging to great big six foot
or, crying as II her heart would break.
while he was telling her what he would
do when he came back, and L, the look
er on. could not but think, will he ever
come back?" remember that way
down in the southland in little coun-
try cemetery there is simple little
tombstone overgrown with Ivy and
shaded by a magnolia tree that has cut
upon 1t; Here lies boy of is years.
His name Is unknown. but he fought
for what he believed was right, and
God will give rest to his tired body and
peace to his brave heart" This boy had
been taken from the battlefield to the
house of a southern woman, who cared
for him until he died. who buried him
among her own people and who, unable
to find out his name, gave him this lit
tie tribute. as she hoped some woman
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Hussar jackets and soldiers kepis were
worn by English girls when yelling
ton was a popular hero. Garibaldrs
famous red shirt was adopted by admir-
ing womankind in Rome and st. Peters,
burg. in Paris and New York. In Lon
don and in Melbourne. Military frogs
and brails always appear, like an cpl
demic in wartmes.
American women are wearing mill
tary buttons from soldiers coats set
into their parasol handles, mounted as
hatpins or dangling from bracelets. The
visit of the young car and czarina to
Paris, with the cementing of Franco
Russian alliance, has dressed the CIV
ilized feminine world for the last two
years in n garment fashioned like q
moujik's blouse.
Who knows IT, with the freedom of
Cuba. American women may not large
ly adopt those graceful Cuban fashions,
the mantilla, the comb and the single
rose behind the ear? a solitary flower
placed at the back OF the ear used to
be the trump card Of the heroine in
| novels. No man was ever known to re-
sist it,
i Another result may come Of the Unit
ed States going to war with European
power. The great fortunes may remain
in the country in which they were made
instead of being used to pay the BACH
elOr debts OF impecunious French, Eng
fish and Italian noblemen. The rich
American girl may make up her mind
to marry the American young man. De-
prived of her presentation at the court
Of st. James. her London season and
her English country house visits. she
may have leisure to make the ac-
quaintance at Newport and at Lenox Of
her own more eligible countrymen.
The American woman's passion for
! luxury, for jewelry, flowers. dress. pic
/ lures. special trains. horses, yachts
mansions in town and country and all
that they entail is not a desirable sign In
so young a country. Les Americains?'
| said pessimlstic Russian as he leaned
! over the taffrall Of homeward bound
| liner and gazed his last at the soft
wooded shores of New Jersey. "C'est UT
peuple qui Sc perdra par lie luxe" This
| from the lips of IAN effete European
/ who had lived long enough in Wash.
1 ington and New York to know what he
was talking about was a sufficiently
| startling ultimatum.
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Gus Americans takes place to Europe,
where they spend their hard earned DOL
lars decking themselves in the flnery of
the foreign milliners, mOdistes ana tai
lors. Every year the craze for foreign
made clothing has been increasing, an
evidence being seen in the protest that
the DinEley tax brought out, a tax
which many of the American trades
people insisted should not be removed.
As most of the American milliners
and dressmakers are women, they will
be especially interested in the trade as
pect of the war. The fashion of going
abroad for the seasons wardrobe was
started by that leisure class in Amer
lea whose great aim IL to ape old world
modes of living. Fashionable American
men are just as anxious that it shall be
known that their clothes are ordered
from Poole as American women are 10
refer to Worth or any of his fellow
Frenchmen. There are indeed many
London and Partisan firms who depend
almost exclusively on the American
trade A season without an American
invasion, as in the Chicago exposition
year, is a serious thing for the two
great capitals of Europe. Yet in the
| almost inconceivable possibility of a
| blockade of New York harbor by q
| Spanish fleet Americans would only be
able to cross the Atlantic sailing under
4 the British flag and by the Canadian
route.
There Is no reason, however, to sup
pose that on this account American wo-
men will he less well dressed than usu-
al Most of the great foreign milliners
tailors and dressmakers have repre-
sentatives in this country who are quite
able TO do as good work as the Partisan
or London houses If the customers could
only be induced to believe 1t. Ameri-
I can tradesmen competing with these
people side by side will have a bette,
chance than ever to win the hearts OF
the fashionable world away from
| Worth, Redfern and Virot When n wo.
man has a chance to compare the hats
| and bonnets of the American millinel
with those of his next door neghbor. O
| Frenchman, she can see that the Amer.
can Is If anything n little more skillfu
than the foreigner and more REASONABLE,
as to charges. The competition between
foreign and domestic trade then be.
comes an equal one. The war there.
fore will mean more business for Amer.
lean tradeswomen and more work ant
better prices for American workwomen
The demand for patriotic garments 1,
one that no foreign workers are likely
to satisfactorily meet.
Political stress and warfare Away,
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copyright. 1881

lCopyTlg0t, 1888
had always said there was not one
drop OF patriotic blood in my veins. At
one time even belonged to peace so
ciety. and should still be member;
but alas for me-or for them-they rails
ed the fees. and l, not having had much
fun In peace for nothing, concluded
there would be even less In paying for
it. You see, there was little trouble
ABOUT me when / made my original bow
into the world. 1 came just at the end
of the war, and my maternal parent has
fashion of referring to me as "a peace
child" which means that / was depriv-
ed of all pleasure, as far as fighting was
concerned. and that never knew the
delights, except by hearsay, OF being as
defiant and bitter and as altogether
warlise as only woman can be. II Is
hard not to have been born either in
1912 or 1860.
In days gone by 1 have listened to
war stories from men and women who
We're some black, some white. The one
who told the most interesting story
gained my ear. color having no lnnu-
ence. Then, too, / possess hand or
gan that plays Maryland, My Mary
land" Dixie" and "The Bonnie Blue
Flag" and whenever l have felt a
weakening toward the land we live In
i have literally ground myself into n
noble state of patriotic feeling. But
now--now / hang out of window in
my dressing gown and wildly cheer at
regiments that have gone to seek Vic
tory or--no, there is no Tor" about 1t.
They have gone to seek victory and
they mean to have It. We maynt
have the clear hidalGo blood In us,
but we have got such n splendid mix
ture of good fighting material. coming
in direct line from the kings OF Ire
land, the fine middle class of England
and the big, strong, determined Ger
mans, all of whom make native Ameri-
cans, that do believe, with Sousa lead.
ing the band. we could lick any natior
except-well. no, l won't except Eng
land. because she is so fond OF us jus
now that rather than see us In trouble
she would step forward, with Tommy
Atkins and all her wonderful ships by
her side, and we would have an Anglo
American alliance that would own tn,
earth and the fullness thereof.
When women are patriotic. they ar,
intensely so. There is nothing In tn,
way of a middle course about them
Just now they are wearing red, whit
and blue belts, red. white and blue rib
bons on their hats, and have heard
whisper 1t gently!-that one fearles
creature wears a red, white and blu
garter, with "dadger' stuck througl
1t in such way that more harm ca
come to her and less, l think, to tn
Spanish spy for whom II Is intended
since In moment of excitement an
considering the difficulty of raising
rufiled skirt she might mistake the han
die for the point. Another girl VIII
loved her country with Ill her heai
endured agonles of pain for which
mustard plaster was OF no use, and sh
Iuffered and was strong rather tina
ave Spanish flies put on her, and so
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of the north had done for the boy she
loved.
Patriotism is great virtue. 1t brings
out all that is best or worst in you and
In me, 1t makes people true - true to
the land in which they have made their
homes and true to all men who. like
them, know what 1t is to love the very
ground they walk on and which they
call my country" But there are good
and bad patriots, so called patriots, who
do an immense amount of yelling for
| Spanish blood, read all the extras pub
| lished and then when another soldier is
| needed to 80 to the front pay substi-
tute to be brave for them.
There are good patriots who are not
afraid 20 fight, but who have sense
enough to know when the hour for the
| battle Is at hand.
There nre had nntriots who have finn
HES Of the size of the ancient Hebrews,
great In number and appetite who
throw up their posts as shipping clerks
that they may chance getting gold
epaulets and gain glory, while the fam
lily finds that glory is not hlling when
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

What especially attracts the atten-
ton of travellers to the Philippine is
lands is the intelligence and superior
refinement of the native women. These
include those of the old Indian race that
first inhabited the islands and of which
there are now but a few left in the high
lands; also the Maloynns and those OF
mixed race The Malayans form by far
the larger part of the population. A
Malayan belle is even by Caucasian
standards an attractive looking crea-
ture. Kind and gentle, with never
failing fund OF good humor 1t is not
much wonder that Europeans who have
lived in the Philippines say that the
Malayan women make the best of house
servants,
Not all the native women are unedu-
Gated. The padres have schools in the
vicinity of the churches. where all who
| wish may learn to read and write. The
| native women are very expert with the
needle and have great taste for mu-
sic. Languages they learn readily and
speak in very sweet and musical tone.
| Sewing machines are used in the is
| lands, and on these some of the wo-
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

men are able to do great quantity of
sewing.
The houses are, as rule, little two
roomed huts, but owing to the summer
temperature that almost always pre-
walls the family spends most OF its time
on the piazza. The womens Jewels are
rich and rare in their way. Not all the
natives are poor. Those of mixed blood
especially are often in very prosperous
circumstances and have an aristocracy
of their own.
Bracelets of gold, with o bangle some
thing like a small bedspring. are fash
ionable. as also are the earrings OF al
most crude gold. Sometimes these or
naments have been handed down in the
owners family from generation to gen.
Grafton. Sorle of the handsomest are
shaped like stars and rhomboids. Like
all slightly civilized peoples, the Phil
ippine native women are very proud OF
their gems and Jewels and don them
with pride for the dances which occur
almost every evening on the piazzas OF
the larger village houses.
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ried by a clergyman, who propouhuee
| the important questions by the ala Oh
| typewriter.
| Long engagements are rather eNpen
slve affairs in Russia. The bridesroo"
elect is expected to send his haneee
| present every day.
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finely carved, that holds her goodly
store OF linen.
While the wedding service is proceed
Ing in Japan the bride kindles a torch
and the bridegroom lights fire from 1t
and burns the wlfe's playthings.
Two deaf mutes We're recently mar
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through the indlsposition of the bride
groom. and not long since one OF these
heroes was wrapped in wet sheets and
kept in quiet, dark room to settle his
nerves.
on her wedding day the Danish peas
ant girl wears q simple crown Of myrtle
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

1t inconvenient to remain with their
elder brother, so they generally take the
hint-and their departure.
English brides are becoming more cool
and self possessed every day. 1t is DIFF
ferent with the men. on several occa-
sions q wedding has been postponed
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AND TIE WAR.
The Present Trouble Will Aid Ours, While It
Will l1jure the Business Of the Lon
doDers and Parisiaps.

largely influence the fashions of both
men and women. The French revolu-
ton found ladies' willing to drape Them
selves in the scanty, close clinging gar
ments of the Goddess of Liberty.
semimilitary dress was often affected
by women during the wars of Napoleon.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

OF brandy thrown in 1t. while many a
warm cape was handed over. permis-
sion being asked of the officer in charge
to some poor fellow who looked as II he
could not stand the cold much longer.
There is where the sadness of war
comes in. To hear OF that girl left be-
hind makes your blood Jingle. AS a
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with her national costume, varying with
the district, but always charming, and
pots of myrtle are carefully cherished
by girlsh hands through the long win
tiers In anticipation Of the great event.
Her sole heirloom is the great oaken
dover chest, heavily clamped and often
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

The Spanish American war will make
n vast difference in the receipts of the
shops of Bond street and the Rue de
la Paix. Already the London and Pa
rlslan tradesmen and tradeswomen are
lifting up their voices in complaint. Ev-
cry summer great hegira of prosper
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MARRIAGE THE WORLD OVER.

by the wife as so many Junior husbands.
Although the Tibetans are not subject
to jealousy in the proportion as other
nations are where polygamy prevails,
yet the Junior husbands generally find
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

In New Guinea the single young wo-
man let's her hair hang about her Shout
ders in all Its glory, but Immediately
after marriage she must have it cut
short.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-28

Only one out OF every thousand mar
ried couples live to celebrate their goiu'
en- wedding.
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records or relies of warrior haunt the
bargain counter sales where nowadays
enterprlsing tradesmen are rcaping q
golden harvest out OF ancestral sabcrs,
decorative blunderbusses, dirks and
swords. ANTICIPATES stores have been
rined by martial curiosity seekers, and
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-16

Cheerful Antipodean Trut11 Teller.
An ex-sea captain, now living in Sgd
ney, many years ago was in charge of a
ship carrying some conyicts. Tine con-
victs mutinied, murdered the crew and
ordered the captain to navigate them to
the islands, and, being a prudent man,
he did SO. When satisfied as to their
course, the convicts deliberated, decided
that he had behaved himself we'll and
put him ashore on the first large island
they came to. He was a musician and
took his violin with him. A threatening
crowd of savages greeted his arrival,
bat Orpheus played to them till they
thought him god, brought him unlim-
tied pigs and yams and bowed in adora-
ton. Finally he married the chiefs
daughter, succeeded him and ruled the
island for years, till a ship called in and
he sailed away.--Sydney Bulletin.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-16
400 Pretty Zones and Gardens.

-.
How general the use OF photography is
coming TO be adopted ey the modern mag
szine as means Of illustration is shown 10
the az announcement of The Ladies' Home Jour-
nal that il is about to publish six new, dis
uoct series of articles which vii! include not
,ess than 400 photographs.
The idea of the magazine is 20 present one
hundred Of the prettiest country homes 10
America, to encourage artistic architecture ;
one hundred OF the prettisst gardens, to en-
courage taste IN dericnifure; seventy churches
decorated for festsl occasions Of all kinds,
such as weddings, Christmas and Eas,e, SER
vices. etc.; some forty of the prettiest girls
rooms il this country twenty-five floral
porches aud vine-clad houses; ard the story
Of the native wild flowers in America, told in
seventy.ive photographs. Over 5000 pho.
rographers, in every part OF the country,
were employed by the magazine to get these
pictures, sad several thousands Of dollars
we're paid in prize awards for The best pho.
sographs. The choice wss made out of over
10, 600 Photographs received by the magazine.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-16
Meeting cf City Council.


City Council me, in regular semi-monthly
session at o'clock p. N. last Wednesday
Ri,h Mayor Wilson and Aldermen Epperson,
Flowers. Hurst and Delgsr present. The
minutes of the neetinas held on October 26th
and 2Sth were read and approved.
The Clerk preseoted bis renort for October,
which was referred to the Finance Committee
for examination.
a reqaest from the police force for the pur.
chase of winte: uniforms was referred 10 the
Police COMMITTEES with power to act.
Alderman Delgar rought up the subject
cf an amendment TO license ordinance, by
which tax will be required of'mercnants
Tue matter was referred 10 City Attorney
Fraser WITH instructions TO prepare such an
amendment as will carry the proposed tax
sinio effect.
A committee consisting Of Aldermen
Rars., Flowers aud Delgar was appointed to
8 draft an ordinance prohibiting ,be trausac.
ton Of secular business on Sunday
II having been suggested that gates should
be placed at the entrance of the alley leading
from Main Stree. 20 the guard house, the
matter was referred 20 the Committee on
Public Works. The gate is needed to pre-
rent crowds from following tbs police when
varying prisoners to the guard house.
The Clerk Il Treasurer reported that slow
progress is being made in the collection OF
taxes, and that it may be necessary to dis
count another note in bank to raise funds foS
current expenses.