Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-04-10

that should receive more attention than
IL does. Among some the most curl
Gus laXness prevails. and a girl who X
aloMed TO grow up in an atmosphere Of
ihaihefence 10 the social amenities
among Ter own is likely to show lacb
OF them in other places. All girls are
toid that contradiction and strongly ex-
pressed opinions are i'll bred among
young persons, but by no means AN are
! taught TO remember the fact. Acgres.
slVeness OF manner is a most unfortun-
ate thing for a girl unless she learns
TO control it, Allowed TO continue it
makes her unpopular, not only with her
youhg friends but their parents and
guardians, and her influence is consid-
cred to be most undesirable.
Negation. in which a girl has no onin
IONS OF her own or waits to hear those
" OTHERS before saying anything. is the
o5ler extreme, aud as such TO be avoid
ca but she who has been taught defer
ence ana consideration will be able TO
e ~ herSeiI IN such way that while
she leaves no doubt of her own ideas She
| oHends none. Her assertions are softened
and qualified with an Il Think NOT
| hurried out with an 1T is" She has some
OF the same manner with friends her
own age as with elders but she may he
~" 90 carry on an argument with her
contemporaries that with the older CEN
y.
| 10 forestall the wants of an older
woman, to see that she wishes her book
at the moment or that the bell should he
rung Tor servant develops not only
good manners in a girl but thoughtful
ness. For slight matter such little at
tentl9na can make must wonderfully for
| popularity. Mothers of other girls Oh
serve and like them. They consider that
| such graceful thoughtfulness is nm ev
ample for their own daughters. and The
We'll hammered girl is in demand.-Naw
! \ ork Herald
Days OF Disaster.
The designation of Black Friday is
popularity supposed to be restricted to
certain day in the financial history of
| this city, but in point of fact it has been
applied to a number of days at various
| times in history. AS used in the records
| of stock speculation in Wall street II is
| applied to two days. The first was Fri
day, September "A, 1869, when panic
was caused IN the money market by the
cont efforts of Col. James Fisk and JAY
Gould to corner the gold market rho
price of gold going up to 163 Is and n
large number of financial concerns under-
going heavy stress. The name Black
Friday is also applied to September 10,
1873, when the great financial crash IN
of that year occurred.
The name of Black Friday was applied
IN England to December s. 1745. when
the news reached London that the Pre-
tender to the throne had arrived at
llerby and the safety of the crown of
Nlng George was regarded as serious
~ threatened, albeit the revolution was
speedily brought to an end. In the iinaE-
cial history of England May II. 1866.
is designated as Black Friday. as on that
day began disastrous financial panic
winch was brought about by the failure
OF the firm of Overend. Quincy & Co,
IN London, who were afterward tried
ana acquitted of conspiracy to defraud
In ecclesiastical history the Roman or
western church has frequently designat-
ed Good Friday as Black Friday, as on
that day all clerical vestments and altar
draperies are strictly black The term
black letter days is applied to minor holt
days and saints days whose names an
pear on calendars in black letters instead
OF red letters, as do the high DAYS and
holy days. In the English calendar GER
tain black letter days have been retained
because they mark civil dates of i'm
portance, such as Hilary term and Mar
tlnmas summer, or because they COM
memorate some public benefactor
The name Black Monday is given IN
English history to Easter Monday. April
IA. 1860, when Edward III lay with
his host before the city of Paris and the
weather was so stormy and bitter cold
that many men died as they sat on their
horses. The term was afterward extend
ed to include all Easter Mondays. and is
80 used by Shakespeare in THE Mer-
chant of Venice" in the line "Then it
was not for nothing that my nose fell
a-bleeding on Black Monday last"
Dickens refers to the schoOlboy custom
of regarding the day for returning to
school after the long vacation as Black
Monday, and an article in Household
Words mentions 1.-The due observance
of the ancient institution of Black Mon
day" the eve of which was kept on the
Saturday night. when the school box was
packed. In Irish history the term Black
Monday was applied to the day when q
number of English were slain in n vii
lage near Dublin in 1909.
Australia has Black Thursday in IFS
history. the name being given in the
colony of Victoria to Thursday. Febrr-
airy 6. 1851 when the most terrible bush
fire ever known in the history of the
colony ragged over an immense extent of
territory and the heat was felt far ont
at sea. and birds overcome by it fell on
the decks OF coasting vessels. The loss
caused by the conflagration was exceed
ingly great.
Black Saturday was the name given
in Scotland to August 4. 1921, when the
Parliament, sitting in Edinburgh, rati-
fed certain articles introducing Church
of England practices in the churches of
Scotland which were opposed to the re-
ligious convictions of the Scotch Presby-
terians The violent thunderstorm which
occurred at the time, with much light
ming and great darkness, was held to
be a manifest token of the dispeasure
of heaven. Sir Walter Scott in one of
his novels wrote: "She was to remind
a neighbor of some particular which she
was to recall to his memory by the token
that Sir Thomas Reid and he had set
out together TO go to the battle which
took place on the Black Saturday.
So far as the records show, no other
day Of the week has had the adjective
black attached TO it. Red-letter days
are any lucky, fortunate or suspicious
days. and are so called because in the
older liturgical works the greater holy
days are designated by red letters.
Dickens makes one of his characters
in BLEAK House say: 1T is the old
girls birthday and that is the greatest
holiday and reddest letter day in Mr.
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