Mame
TOMMY TWIGGS AND NANNIE
I little thought that Tommy Twiggs
Would marry Nannie Rice ;
Or Nannis marry Tommy Twiggs,
And vice versa vice.
But so it was, and Nannie Rice
Became thé bride of Tommy ;
He usked her for her hoart and hand,
She sent him to her mammy.
Y Quite willingly, “thatlady said,
or Tommy had much money;
And then together they were wed
In bonds of matrimony.
And Nannie blushed a crimson red,
When Tammy boldly kissed her;
Then Nannie Rice was Mrs. Twiggs,
And Tommy he was Mr. :
But scarce I thought that Tomy Twiggs
~ Would marry Nannie Rice,
Op Nannie marry Tommy Twiggs,
And vice versa vice.
I pitied Nannia's other beau,
{hose sait proved all too tardy ;
A wretchad man—1I know him well,
For I'm the chap—Joe Hardy!
A ————_————— i.
European Correspondence
Naples, May, 1583.
I left Rome at 10.30 on the évening of
Friday, the 11th inst,, and arrived here
at 6.30 the next morning, Finding the
omnibus of the hotel waiting at the
station, I jumped in and was driven
through the most beautiful parts of the
city hither. I had heard of this pension
at Rome. It is very pleasant, situated
between the Corso Vittorio Emmanuele
and the Chiaja, and I got a glimpse of
one of the world's most beautiful scenes
from my window, after luxuriating in
seven excellent courses at dinner, TI pay
seven franes a day. whichis very reason-
able even for Italy, considering the sit-
uation and character of the
house.
After breakfast on Saturday I went
immediately to the Museum, the only
building in Naples over whichstrangers
spend much time. 1 saw the Farnese
Bull and the Hercules, which I could
enjoy without at all placing them in the
same class with the Apollo of the Vati-
can or the Faun of the Capitol. The
statues are of marvelous workmanship,
and entirely. without that affectation
which 80 often makes modern statues
disagreeable. Ithink, however, Taine is
not entirel when the
Hercules goreux porte-faix qui
pense qu’ un verre de vin viendrai bien a
the
¥ wrong he calls
un vi
Old Children.
One can no more help loving children
that he can help liking rose-buds. But
I meet with some children whom I can-
not love without considerable effort.
These are the old children, Their wise
looks and sedate and dignified ways are
appalling. They seldom laugh, and
their smile is a sickly, sneering sardonic
smile, They never romp, but step
staidly, and with a gravity of deport-
ment which would become an
togenarian,
These poor, little, old children,
withered and hard and dry before their
time, are the legitimate fruits of certain
forms of the child-culture of to-day,
We were not used to have them. In
days not remote children were children
in tastes, feelings. manners and occu-
pations ; the spring of life lasted twenty.
one years and longer, Our boys were
buoyant and sportive, and the rippling
laughter of our girls was as sweet music,
But now too many of our girls are fine
ladies, and our boys sedate gentlemen,
The jacket of jean, frock of flannel and
bowl of porridge have passed away, and
with them have passed healthy, hearty
happy child-life. With our artificial
modes of life and premature develop-
ment of mind, we are in danger of
abolishing that out of which come all
valor, heroism and worth whatsoever—
a healthy childhood. Our children are
in school when they ought to be at
play ; at the bail when they ought to be
in bed; promenading in stiff, fine
clothes, when they ought to be frisking
witht he lambs in the meadows, as
blithe and gay as lambs, and knowing
as little of
fashion, and, 1 mav add, business,
what make old children.
Our girls are clamoring fo
education,”
OC
fashionable life, Books, |
1
are |
“higher |
and we think we give it to |
them when we extend the range of their
school studies. I met a child the other
day who knew **enough for a professor,” |
I was told, but
strengthening plasters, and could not |
look you in the face. Men, have, in
she was wearing six |
every age, played the fool for knowl-!
the cost of wisdom, |
b
edge : have got it at
health happiness and virtue: but
no
+r
point.’’ The Psyche has a most subtle,
delicate beauty. The Venus Callipyge is |
a well-executed statue, but evidently
not of the best classic period ; in fact, |
you could almost believe it to be an ex- |
ceptionally good work of the Renais-
Sance.
But the part of the Museum where |
one likes to linger longest and return |
most - often is that ¢ontiamine the thou.
sands of frescbes which were removed,
for preservation, from Pompeii.
On Sanday | ascended the multi-
tudimous steps of St. Elmo, bound for
the quondam Convent of St. Martin,
After admiring the rich decorations of
the eonventual! church, and spending |
some time over its pictures by Guido
{a Nativity, his last picture, all finished
except the infant Christ which is left
sketched), Ribera, Luca Giovdano,
Carlo Maratta, and other artists, and in
the bandsome cloisters of glittering
white marble, with the customary
great well in the centre, I mounted
upon a balcony whence the best view in
Naples is obtained. The beauty of the
Bay of Naples, with its lovely islands
and the mountains which surround it,
beginning from Vesuvius, with its con-
stantly ascenaing pearly vapor, depenis
upon the wonderful voluptuous atmos-
phere, which makes the sky and the
sea deeper and bluer here than any-
where else, and gives marvelous effects
of light and shade to the mountains.
I will not call them ** purple,” for no
words are sufficient t) describe their
tints, Till we are able to enclose an
atmosphere in paper no description of
Naples can be written.
I have been to the Cathedral, which
is the seeond Italian Gothic building I
have seen, and yesterday to Santa Chi-
ara, where are richly ornamented and
well-wrought tombs of kings, queens,
dukes and nobles of the thirteenth;
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,
There is one of a baby prince, who i
represented as borne away in the arms
of twb beautiful angels. WwW. C.C.
—— Sotho
Dress in a Hot Country.
It is, of course, superfluous to say
that the better ¢lasses of Brazilians are
always decently or even elegantly
dressed from boyhood, yet the children
of the most wealthy are sometimes in-
troduced to visitorswithottapy clothing
but a string of beads around the neck,
or a pair of elegant slippers on their tiny
feet, while in the photographic galleries
one can find few pictures of any but
nude children. Among the lgwer
classes, boys are frequently never
dressed till they are twelve years old.
Girls commonly wear olothés sooner,
though the first few years of their
lives pass with only a pair of earrings,
which find their way into the ears of
every female child before she is a
year old.
~The Washington Monument is a
little over 850 feet high, and progress
previous age has equaled ours in mad-
Y
1
188 of this sort. I weuld not give a |
girl that knowledge which might puta |
single wrinkle in A
sandwich
her face. formal |
walk or game of cr
wiuetie
between six hours of study and six of
fashionable life will not go far toward |
developing the physical well-being of
The premature placing of our children |
in mercantile relations,
tion of what has
keeper's philosophy,’
expedients for
begin by giving t
or the
inculca- |
been termed ‘“-shop- |
is another of our |
We!
those |
abolishing youth.
of
fool-invented toys called “banks” —an
he child one
invention which has done harm enough
to counter-balance the good of all other |
toys—and persuade bim to shut up in |
it all his penny gleanings, as
were angels’ gifts, instead of spending
them as soon as acquired, as a |
child such
practical in
Visiting once at the house of a Christian |
minister, I found that each of his chil-
dren had his little bank in which he
deposited every penny that came into
his hands. A beggar stopped to ask an
an alms. I said: ‘Why do you not
give some of your money to the poor
old blind man °° The answer was:
“We don’t give our money to tramps ;
we're going to keep it and make more
money with it.” When I see the best
years of childbood monopolized by the
acquisition of a trade or profassion I
feel like telling parents that such
treatment is wicked, and uncalled for
even by avaricious calculation. The
shallow ‘atilitarianism so prevalent
among men of business is attributable,
in a great measure, to the premature
entrance of boys into commercirl re-
lations, Ignorant of poetry, nature
and history, they base their theories of
human natore upon what they see of
Dick, Tom and Harry. There is no
ideal in their lives, nor aught of nature,
and they transmit the plague. If we
would prevent our children from be-
coming dry, withered and callous in
mind and in heart, we must prevent
them from coming too early in contract
with the tricks of trade and the heart-
hardening principles which rule over the
commercial world, :
Another aging influence is to be
found, as I have already intimated, in
the high and fast living in which we
indulge our little ones. We exhaust
them by a system of profusion, luxury
and dissipation. The breakfast of life
should be frugal, for dinner must be an
improvement on it. To what serious
consequences are we bringing our
children when we give them a high
seasoned morning feast and a table of
dainties ¥ It is sad to see how many of
these old boys and girls there are, who,
at the age of fifteen years or thereabout,
have gone into chronic ennui, and are
surrounded with appliances for their
instruction and diversion which would
have bewildered their grandparents at
if they |
wealthy |
is sure to de. a toyisa |
object lesson avarice.
before going out ; who would as lief be
kissed by the north wind as by any lass
in christendom ; who would willingly
exchange all the overcoats in the world
for a pair of skates or a sled ; who takes
to the water like a duck, to the mud
like an eel, and to the sun like an
“American citizen of African des-
cent.”
re
That Good Young Man,
The young man who never knows
when to go home is not peculiar to any
town or village, He is generally a
seriews and silent person, who has but
little to say for himself, and does not
make that little interesting. He is not
often handsome, and his clothes never
fit him. He is not vain; in faet. he had
to struggle with himself a long while
before he could muster up courage to
call on Miss Pamela, in the first place ;
but having come, he sticks to the sofa
as if he was glued to it, with his fingers
interlaced, his knees together. and his
i toes tarned in.
He comes very early, almost before
the tea-tray has been cleared, and he
gets through with his remarks’ about
the weather and his inquiries as to each
member of the family very speedily,
The mother gets her knitting, and
father takes up his newspaper, and they
retire sn little in the background. near
the lamp on the table, Young people
should have a little liberty.
Augustus is a good voung man, and
his father owns property of value,
Miss Pamela might do worse,
They appear absorbed in each other,
but they listen to their parents.
Pamela's mother
sits in her chair,
or
The good young man answers, “Yes,
and “No, and ‘Is it
at random.
how
ma'am.”
He is thinking Miss
pretty
3.
i,
ft he
ing
Sano
He is wondering why he ¢
Sing like SOE you
Pamela is wondering so. too,
She folds her hands and unfolds them,
and plays with the buttons of her di
and asks him i
her dressmaker
old red cow vet, an
deep import.
He answers, ‘I dunno.” and watches |
er intently, and she hides a gape be-
hind her fingers,
He is conseions of the fact that as he |
Miss
nothing” to
Yeaid ing
Pamela, |
he is
merely a calier, He knows he ought to |
nd to |
the effort necessary to rising and saying |
he must now depart.
Such simple sentences as “*1 think it’s
“Ma will
seem to long for
.
ig
want to ge.
be expecting |
me, his tongue,
fie doesn't
Why does dot Pamela's father rise |
approve ; take my |
or to |
Why does not Pamela's mother, in |
country places, fold her knitting and
silently steal away to bed ?
Why doesn’t Pamela get them away |
somehow ? Pamela gapes again.
The head of the family ostentatiously
with the clock. The young man moves |
his feet nervously, and kicks under the
sofa the hat which bashfulness has
prompted him to put on the floor.
Now he decides that he never gan go.
How shall he go down on his knees and
feel for that hat before Pamela ? The
clock strikes again. Pamela's father
bas fallen asleep and is snoring awfully,
Pamela has stopped saying anything.
The mother has given up expecting this
good young man to go, and is staring
at him in selemn despair, He feels it
all, At last he struggles up, almost
stands on his head to look for his bat,
finds it, says good night ta the back of
his host's bald head, and bolts to the
door. As he goes down the garden-
path he happens to look back, and sees
a shadow on the white shade stretching
out its arms in a woful yawn. He
hopes it is the “old lady,” but it is
awfully like Miss Pamela.
The Japanese Horror of Fire.
As the h our approaches for thelight-
ing of lamps in the evening at Yoko-
bama the sound of the fire patrol is
heard and all the night long the streets
are perambulated by these warning
guardians, who beat two hand-sticks or
clappers together with the regularity of
clockwork, giving forth a sharp ringing
sound that there is no mistaking, and
hey also have a regular note of warning
which they cry out at regular intervals
of time, 80 that the necessity for pre-
caution is present to the mind of all the
dwellers in the city throughout the
hours of durkness, whether they will or
no. The incendiary is the most de-
praved of eriminals in the estimation of
the people, and none others were so
fearfully punished in the past. At
their age. He is the lad who
owly.
cated not to consult a thermometer
ont Hah Gk ae be .
one who commits arson.
Diamond dust has all the properties
of the dimmond, and the essence of a
great writer's genius may be traced in
he slightest of his productions. Few
yr
would drop down on the dog’s back
and ride in in triumph.
Ladies of rank in the last century did
not know how to spell very well, Lady
be adduced than the little prose poems
which have amused the declining years
of M. Twrgenieff, They may be com-
pared to the *‘Twice-Told Tales” of
Nathaniel Hawthorne--a writer who
has no slight affinity to Turgenieff—for
their comparative brevity, their terse
finish, and their more fanciful and
ideal character in relation to the bulk of
the author's writings, They differ
tartly as the productions of a master of |
literary form differ from those of a be- |
ginner ; partly inasmuch as with Haw- |
thorne the story is usually of at least as |
much importance as the thought, while |
with Turgeniefl it only exists for the
development of an idea frequently 50 |
slight that a lyric poet would have de- |
spatched it in a stanza. The keynote of |
each collection is a deep melancholy; |
but with Hawthorne this is the egotistic
melancholy of a lonely visionary who
passes by banquet and by business like a
shadow ; with Turgenieff it is the sor
row of one but too deeply interested in |
human life, fibre |
the misery of a nation * rotten before it
is ripe,” as Cobbett has it.
Perhaps the best idea of M.
ieff’s manner in this work will con-
veyed by an abridgement of one of his |
tales. Maving recounted how Giafar,
the Vizier of the Caliph
Huroun Alrasehid, while yet young and
undistinguished. old
from afterwards
the old man at his request, he
and who feels in every
Turgen-
be
renouned
rescued an
assassins, and
man
visited |
contin. |
The old man took Giafar by the hand
and led him into a garden enclosed by |
walls, in the midst of which |
L pon this tree hung three ap- |
ples ; one of longish shape and white as
ng
milk ; the second round
, sh
“sald th
and red ; the
ittie riveled and vellow,
i, id man, ** pluck and |
at one of these apples, If the white, thou
Of
a wilt be the ricl
wilt be the wisest men ; if the
thou wilt be acceptable to all
Anguiany
Fag
But
§ Virtue
women, make speed; the
within an bour." |
1 much perplexity. |
“If 1 know everything.” thought
WW IO
me; if I become
envy
ne,
And he
» yellow ap- |
Ya $5 4 s mus 1
pie, did so Oil man |
%. 1 rsrsss dt} 3
YOLLIess mouth, and |
in
iii
{rood youth |
ast chosen the better part
thou of the
than
the red
hast white apple
wiser Solomon,
t thou
be
will
apple, either
oh
58
thee,’
rich with
envy
£1
il
and none
sage,”’ responded Giafar, ** deign to
to the of the
of
bow ed to {
And
me dwelling
the
of wal
The old man
august moth Commander
el
§
(riafar is the greatest subject in Bagdad.
--
Clips.
of carrying fans was |
from Italy in the time of
Henry VIII, and young men used
them in the 16th and 17th century.
Abdalla, the father of Mahomet, was
a poor camel driver, but so handsome
that when he married, two hundred
despairing maidens died broken-heart-
ed.
The fashion
The Egyptians of to-day commence
the building of a house by tracing an
outline plan on the ground with the
aid of a sack of plaster,
Runrig is a term applied to a kind
of cultivation once common through-
out Scotland, in which twe alternate
patches or ridges of a field belonged to
different proprietors or tenants.
The leaves of the sunflower are em-
ployed by the Chinese as substitute for,
or for mixing with, tobacco, Its fibre
they use to adulterate and dye their
silken fabrics,
White, the emblem of innocence and
purity; red, the color of passion ; blue,
constancy ; green, hope; pink, love;
violet, friendship ; brown, indifference ;
black, death and despair,
An old law in Holland, condemned
criminals to be wholly deprived of salt
a8 the severest punishment in that
moist country. The effect was that !
they were a prey to internal parasites,
Among the notes to the third chapter
of his History of England, Lord Ma-
cauley alludes to the vulgar proverb that
“the gray mare is the better horse,
attributing its rise to the preference
given in the seventeenth century to the
gray mares of Flanders over the coach-
horses of England,
A New York lady had a pet dog and
cat that were very fond of each other
and never quarrelled. When the dog
wished to go into the kitchen he would
stand by the door and puss would jump
up, catch one paw on the lateh and
press the other on the thumb piece,
of her favorite dog, * poor charming
Fubs ” as follows : * As it leved soe it
dyed, full of lov leening its head in my
bosom, never offered to snap at any-
body in its horrid torter but nusele its
head to us and loock earnestly upon me
and Bue, whoe cryed for thre days as if
it had been for 4 childe or husband.’
In Gardiner's Music of
are told on what notes the
He says, * The Gpat hums in A; the
Death-watch calls in B flat ; the Cricket
chirps in B natural’; the buzz of a Bee-
and a Cockchater in D below the
of insect voices, the Door-beetle taking
the bass, the Gnats the trumpets, and
80 on.’
In Alastor
used as a surname of Zebs or Jupiter,
classical mytholo
rs
zy
It is also used to signify a deity who
punishes
of
a
sequence some crime perpetrated,
family
According to the belief
persecutes for generations,
of the
of Augustus, the family of the
would have been persecuted for
tions by
latte
Nerd.
Alastor, There are
opinions about Alastor. Some
Wie same
hought he was ti
as Azae)
himself,
others that he
On a train going into Detroit the othe:
{
day was anewly married lige
couple,
bride appearing to be about twenty-five
vears, and the groom being a
chap a year or two younger,
came aboard at Wyandotte
a few
tipiging
WCInINR
: ¢ + i ‘
i Benerald sivie,
tenant
BEFLEL
Jes]
fi
5 ber countenance she turned around in
“Madam.
1 close the
will
Will
her seat and said ;
window
‘son’ closed his moutl
madam’ didn’t
#in grammar 8 ru
negal How does 11
ards have gor
bid in gow
Ww le 8al
VEE
NE man marmied against the
or
alli
I ening
friend how to break the news to them,
said :
At the funeral. First friend
him he
Charley kept
“Ah! but
must take rest.
Jalap told
i #
right on. Second
Dr.
h.
ut
Jalap is not a
He had his way,
can’t
and then
Omaha wonders why she
or poet,
over his head without
skull, — Detroit Free Press,
A Brooklyn shopkeeper
“ Elly rose potatos for sail.’
The latest
ANNOUNCES
novelty
dogs.”’
street with a dog that does not match
her complexion. This fashion will
make a great sale for pink-white Italian
greyhounds in Boston, while the yellow
and black pug will prevail in New York,
— Boston Pod,
The shillalah as an industrial imple.
ment : A gentleman recently returned
from California, who was relating the
result of his observations out here,
stated that the Chinese laundrymen used
sticks in cleaning clothes. “That's
it,” exclaimed an Irishman present,
“ they take a shtick to the clothes and
schare the dhirt out av thim,
Brooklyn Eagle,
“ There was a good specimen of Ameri-
can wit in the reply made by the old
settler, who had lived in this city since
it was a log cabin or two, to the young
man who was putting’ him through a
course of interrogatories : * You must
have lived here a long time 2° * Well, 1
reckon.’ ‘Why, how long since you
came here?’ ‘Young man,’ said the
old settler, seizing the questioner by the
coat lappel, ‘do you see that hill across
the river [pointing to a lofty peak?’
‘ Yes, said the other, ‘Ido. ‘Well I
kim here, sir, when that was nothin’
but a hole in the ground.’
nia AIS
The latest craze for earthen tea-pots
was caused by a potter accidentally
ing it out of shape. It was baked in
that fashion, and at once pronounced a
The Gossip of Paris.
The Way People talk at the Theatre
in the French Capital.
Overheard last night at the Cirque
Do you know Lady Lonsdale ?
1 have seen her at the Opera and in
the Bois. She is elegant.
They say she is to be married shortly
to the Duke of Portland,
Ah | tired of widowhood : ea se com-
prend,
It appears that her father, Sir Sas-
soon, is a veritable nabob,
What do you say her name is ¥
Madame Gubbay,
Aly, ves, Joulevard Malesherbes,
she gave a grand ball on Wednesday.
i The top of the basket of the diplomatic
| corps and the haute banque:
ambassaders and [sraelites,
Naturally.
| dorsed by the
nothing but
The invitations were in-
Baronne
tothechild and Madame Louis Caben,
Then upon Madame
Gubbay henceforward as a Parisienne
Alphonse de
we may look
category grand juiveire ?
Yes.
Paris her Home,
They sdy she to going to
So you were at the reception of Mon-
| seigneur Perraud at
Thursday ?
It was not brilliant at
+
thie
Academy
Nothing
toilets
all.
Ni
‘and the good bishop's speech so dull
He quoted Polybins,
| but priests and provincials,
Really we must agi ues
80 that at the next Concours Hippique
! we may have prizes for
| not give everything to jumpers and trot-
ters. In America they always have
special prizes for amblours.
v : 1 +1 » 4 « 5 ¥
Do You thing liere is anything ix
a i 1
ios fated an
he Ameri an wreeaers
iS
¢ rt ity for $ivrew
ting aptitude depending
ow
» formpation of the brain of
8 jeg
ami, Why on ear
th do
songe
One
in see hunting
Atle
§
The
‘turned all
INogest ung woman
colors’’ has given up
muitiplicity
Dusiness owing to
5 [8 § 1
new shades,
A lady who spent $100,000 of her own
money the war in aiding
wounded
yo
Rivas
ing in
poverty
“Oh, pa,” said a young lady, *‘ why
not get a fir tree ¥ It would be soecono-
| mical ts
| we could
wanted.’
» raise out furs, and the:
Kind
own
raise whatever we
“* How much older
i be than his wife #”’
should a husband
Edith. Three to
sufficient : but, if
or Sixty years
| five years is usually
he is very rich, fifty
allowable,
is
The census proves that the number of
{ persons in a family in the United States
| isa small fraction over five. In some
families the husband isthe small frac-
i tion over.
“Is it true that when a wild goose's
mate dies it never takesanother # asks
a young widow. Yes, but don't worry
about that. The reason it acts that way
is because it is a goose,
qu
“The True Lord Beaconsfield.”
os——
There was a quality in Lord Beacons-
field which exercised a kind of Circean
spell upon his most impassioned votariés,
| The unique position which he achieved
| in this country arose not more from the
extraordinary fibre of his intellect than
from his skill in making al! sbout him
his instruments. In these respects Lord
Beaconsfield was the greatest leader of
men probably ever known, in this coun-
try. When a newspaper was beginning
to occasion him some annoyance by its
persistent attacks on the Berlin Treaty,
he sent for the journalist, and in the
space of a minute changed him, by a
dexterous compliment, from a censor to
asatellite. Inthe same way, after he
bad denounced his colleague, Lord
Salisbury, as a great master of gibes and
flouts and jeers, he propitiated him bya
letter in which he quaintly said that he
had undertaken a humorous defense of
him in the House of Commons, which,
upon reflection, he was afraid would
have a somewhat clumsy appearance in
print. And this was the method upon
which only a man of his
power could proceed, all round. He
knew every note in the gamut of human
sentiment ; he knew that men are con-
trolled, for the most part, not by what
is strong in them, but by what is weak