Year: 1878




Hannah Peterson, who was on her way to
Utah with her husband unable to leave her
place in the train, was Obliged to commit the
corpse of her infant seven months old to an
undertaken, who inferred it In Falrview
cemetery, marking and numbering the grave.
The mother was informed she could send for
the remains at any time, and the train bore
her onward towards the setting sun weeping
bitterly for her precious darling.


Cotton bears witness to the enfeebled con-
dition of Turks rich enough to own harems.
The leading market at the present day for
indelicate French pictures and porcelains is
among the Mohammedans of the east, where
they animalize the whole population. Polyg
amy utterly debases the social life of the
Turks and Persians. Arthur Arnold, who
travelled through Persia in 1875, reports that
the indoor dress OF the Persian lady is worse
than that of the ballet girl, and that her
bodice makes less pretension to be a cover
ing than that OF the Partisan danseuse.


little illustration of the extravagant ideas of
the scope Of the law which some people
have. A young man, it says, good looking
and well dressed, and apparently about %
years old, hurried into Judge Mann's pri-
vate Office in that city and asked that an in
junction be granted whereby young lady
should be restrained from marrying a young



gued that he of the second part was unfit to
marry the girl, as he was a confirmed Grip
pie. 1t seems that the young man who
sought the injunction was madly In love
with the young lady himself, but her affec-
ton failed to beat responsive measure for
the simple reason that the lame suitor held
undlsputed sway over her heart. The girls
father accompanied the young man, and was
the old mans choice for a husband The
enterprisiDg pair departed, bitterly disap-
pointed to learn that girl can't be enjoined
like other animate objects.


"And now her ex-imperial majesty has
lost her grip so to speak. She is no longer
the arbitress of fashion, but has become
played out, dowdy old woman.


To-day, in her abode at Chiselhurst, the
widow of Napoleon III. attracts scarcely less
of the worlds interest and attention than
she did as throned empress and queen of
fashion. Unfortunately, the supreme tact
that once was her distinguishing quality
seems to have deserted her IN the days of her
decadence. She, the most graceful OF women,
has not learned the art of growing old grace
fully. She had played the part of a beauty
and the leader of fashion for years. Now
that she is past so, that character Is no longer
possible to her. But she might have assumed
| another-less snowy, perhaps but surely far
| more touching. With her whitening hairs
she might well have worn the triple dignity
of her widowhood, her maternity and her
| misfortune. She has chosen inst d, with
weakness unworthy of the part she has play
ed on the WIDE stage of contemporary history,
| to clutch vainly after the feeting shadow Of
| her vanished charms. A head loaded with
| false yellow hair, face covered with paint
| and powder, mincing gait and the airs of
an antiquated coquette-such to-day is she
who was once the worlds wonder for her
lovliness and grace, a bewigged Mrs. Skewton
succeeding to the dazzling vision thatswerved
| the calculating policy of Napoleon III. and
| won his callous heart"


If we were DR.. Mary Walker we wouldn't
| loaf around Washington another hour. 1t
must be enough to break Mary's heart she is
| so ambitious to see her hope realized, to see
| day after day women going up and down
| the streets of the capital without breeches,
but in the ordinary costume which Mary
| long since condemned. If we were Mary we
would go east-go east as far as Cyprus,
| where the women wear pantaloons fastened
| around the ankles, with fancy colored boots,
| a profusion of chains and trinkets fastened
around the neck, and a heavy girdle fastened
| by massive metallic plates. They dye the
| hair q lustrous brown with henna, and they
| deepen the expression of the eyes by color
ing the eyebrows with the same dye. Their
| dress is of the brightest colors crimson, blue,
| etc. and their head-dress is q perfect copy





| statues. They seem to take pride in ex
posing their charms, which other women
conceal; their bosoms are almost entirely
| uncovered. They are tall and Juno-llke in
| mien and figures, with remarkably handsome
and classic features. They are among the
| most beautiful women of all the islands,
calling the finest faces of the ancient statues.
Unfortunately they do not cultivate grace of
form, and by thirty they become quite stout
and heavy. There is a certain dignity and
elegance about the women of Cyprus that is
very striking. They probably approach
nearer to the ancient type of classic beauty
| than any other of the modern descendants of
Helen. They have but little or no education,
but they are not lacking in intelligence nor
In desire for knowledge.


II occasionally happens that a woman
with her husband or her lover comes into a
crowded street car, and young man whose
chivalrc feelings have not been utterly de-
stroyed by constant contact with the busy
world, rises and surrenders his seat to the
lady. He takes bold of one of the straps
hanging from the roof of the car for the con-
venience of passengers 10 whom all other
conveniences of travel are denied, and
stands patiently in the aisle with the glow
OF conscious well doing upon his ingenious
countenance. He feels that he has done an
act OF kindness to damsei in Distress that
he has paid due homage to the gentler sex;
tnat ne mas dCqultVeQ nluuSelI COuTteOuSly
toward stranger. He can, therefore, bear
with content the elbowing OF the conductor
as he pushes in and out, and the tramping
of fellow passengers upon his toes. The
meek satisfaction of self sacrifice exalts him.
Happy dreamerl Let him enjoy the illu-
s1ons of his youth while he may. In few
moments one of the passengers sitting be-
side the lady rises to go out She slides
hastily along so as to make room for her es-
cort lover or husband as the case may be,
and that gentleman glides quickly into the
seat, leaving the courteous youth still hang
ing to the strap from the roof and abiding
the buffets of the conductor. To him hang
ing there the little drama is a revelation.
He sees at once how deeply bedded in mean
ness and selfishness is happy humanity.
His idol is suddenly broken; the beautiful
doll of his Imagination is no longer stuffed
with divinity, but with sawdust, vulgar saw
dust Unhappy dreamerl Let him not
utterly despise his race, il he can help it.
Let him not feel toward these members of
1.-The low loving herd" as Sir Pelleas did
xuh he al