The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-25
IN THE GOSSIP'S CORNER.

presidency is premature, to say the least,
but it would be amusing if it wasn't so
serious. Or. perhaps. it is amusing because
it is so serious. The State papers, es-
pecially of the Democratic persuasion. are
having a good deal to say about it, but
it isn't confined to them Two travelling
men, both Democrats, were standing at
Washington and Illinois streets. Sunday.
discussing the recent election. i've al
ways voted the straight Democratic tick
et," said one, except when I voted for
Koehne, the first time he ran, out of
friendship. But I'm willing to go before
any notary public in the country and take
an oath to vote for Mark Hanna if the
Republicans will nominate him four years
from now. The old man is business, from
the ground floor up, and / know lots of
Democrats who would vote for him on
that account" Said the second traveller:
''I'll join you that, if the Republicans
will carry through, in the meantime,
constitutional amendment making the term
six years, and declaring man ineligible
to succeed himself A Republican ac-
quaintance who had heard part of the
conversation said: 1.-THE amendment would
be good thing, and we could go further
and fare worse than with Hanna, except
that he will be too old"
l had heard of the young lady who had
read Romeo, but had not read Juliet, and
/ recall a young woman in literature
class where went to school who asked the
teacher If Shakespeare were dead, but the
other night 1 ran across better Cor worse)
case than either. Quite a party had fore
gathered in the early evening, and after
discussion of music and singers in gen.
eral, the conversation turned to Nine. Patti
and Sig Nicolini. One young woman asked
WHO is this Nicoini?" The answer was,
of course. mime. PATHS husband The
next question was a puzzler, in its motif.
The young woman betrayed much interest
and surprise as she exclaimed, Was ne
white?' ''Why, of counsel" said every
body, and then it dawned upon the COM
pany that the fair questioner was think
ing of Mrs. Sisseretta Jones, 1.-The Black
Patti The necessary explanations were
made, and all she said was: 81 didn't know
there were two PATHS
This is the story of an election bet that
nearly went TO protest, though the payer
was more anxious than the payee to set
tie the score. A Republican young man
and Democratic young woman, living on
the North Side, made a wheelbarrow bet.
Ii Bryan won, the young man was to wheel
the young woman around the block. If
Mckinley won, she was to handle the
| bars. Everybody knows what happened.
The young woman thought she might as
well have as much fun out of it as pos
Sih1a CT che decorated ha vahtolo oo;rx,
sent for crowd of her friends, of both
sexes, 10 witness the performance and
sent word to the young man Of the hour
fixed. He heard of the elaborate prepa-
rations and left town. On his return he
was so mercilessly "guyed" on his lack
of nerve" that he sent word that if she
would set the day, and make it after
dark, instead of in the afternoon, he would
not disappoint her the second time. She
made the changes as desired, but after
he was safely ensconced in the barrow.
she summoned goodly brigade of small
boys with torches, and in their light gave
him the promised ride.
IT'S passing strange-and more than pass
ing pitiable-that pruriency appeals to some
minds as it does From several sources
--WnlCn are alike uQlnpeacnaDle and
gretful-it has come to my notice that the
young women tgirls of seventeen. eighteen
and nineteen years. of one of the city's
leading institutions of learning recently
have developed fad for telling nasty
stories; stories that-as one of the girls
phrased it-'make you sick at your stem-
ach." And the one who tells the worst
story is the temporary heroine of the gath
| ering. II you were TO ask those who know
| them who these girls are, they would
promptly tell you .'They are among the
incest girls in town." And they are. But
| they have forgotten Temporarily at leas)
| that nastiness is not conducive to nicely,
| even though it is possible to be nasty
NICE Their parents would not approve
| this practice; their teachers would not ap-
prove it, nor would they approve 1t. If
| they overheard their brothers. or the young
men who sometimes call on them or take
| them out in the evening, relating these
| tales, or II some other girl or woman mot
| in our set were to follow their example
within their hearing If there is any place
| in the world where a dirty story has no
place, 1t is in the mouth of an American
schoolgirl. THE GOSSIP