-— A despateh from Westport, Con.
necticut, says that, as a gravel train
was crossing the New Haven Railroad
drawbridge, on the afternoon of the
1st, George Il. Nordaby, a brakeman,
saw a woman and two meu struggling
n the water. Their boat had been
struck by a squall and capsized, and the
WO men were unable to save the
woman. Nordaby plunged into the
water below, a distance of forty-five
feet, and rose to the surface within
three feet of the drowning woman and
bore her to the shore. Eleazer Page,
17 vears old, was drowned while boat-
ing at Quebec, on the 2d, A younger
brother of Eleazer, who had been ailing
for some time, died shortly after the
atter left the house. The mother,
while suffering from the loss of the
younger hrother, was informed of the
wccident, She fainted and it 1s thought
that she will die.
-QOn the evening of the 3d, 225
pounds of dualin explcded in the Wil-
bur mine, at Kingston, Ontario, doing
great damage and seriously injuring a
workman named Dunn, All ths men
'e mine only flve minutes be-
bf
L
had left onl
OLE,
ing of the 2d a coal
Leavenworth branch of
n Pacific Railroad was thrown
track by an switch,
les from Lawrence, Kansas,
J. Munden, Fireman Frank
Thomas Brown
fie even
the
open
Drakeman
seven young
the river at Saco,
Maine, on thie afternoon of the 4th, and
Albert Carter, aged 19, and Charles
Michel, aged 17, were drowned.
—A freight train and a gravel train
on the Reading Railroad collided, on
the Oth, 1n Williamsport. Both engines
and a number of cars were wrecked,
and Michael Joyce, brakeman was
Killed. The loss on property is $20,-
000, 1t issaid the conductor of the
gravel train disobeyed orders. A train
on the Newburyport Railroad struck a
carriage at a crossing in North Beverly,
Massachusetts, on the 5th, The
pants were Mr. O, Menard, wife and
child. Menard and the child were
killed and Mrs, Menard fatally injurea,
— Texas fever has broken out among
the cattle in the northern part of Ver-
million county, Illinois, It was intro-
duced by Texas cattle sent there to
feed.
—Thomas Kane, of Abingdon, Illi-
fired three shots at bis wife on
the evening of the 3d, and she fell.
Thinking he had killed her, he com-
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the head. At North Grosver-
nordale, Connecticut, on the 4th, a
young Swede named Neilson 1
Len was
upset
cause his death in a short time. TI
quarreiled over penny matching.
the evening of the 4th a number
drunken men raised a disturbance
Mariana, Arkansas,
arrested one thei
while on his
attempted to
Pistol shots were exchar
of the rioters was killed.
— A car
m the Erie R
of
way to
rescue
was thrown fre
allway, al
from Avon, on the 4th,
of a wheel.
Eever:
iy
Jacob’
he
[ visit in the City of Mexico, and says
that while there he met Polk and talked
with hii, and found that he was In
busimese there,
— Martin Ryerson, the Chicago mil-
ifonaire lumberman, died suddenly in
heart. Dr, George B. Walker, a well-
known physician, died at his home in
Evansville, Indiana, on the 6th, from
the effects of a surgical operation, He
was in the 80th year of his age, and had
practiced for fifty-two years, Rey,
Alvin Woods, D. D., died at his home
in Providence, Ilhode Island, on the
Gth, aged 94 years, He graduated from
Philips’ Academy, Andover and Har-
vard, and was ordained in 1821. H. F.
Williams, President of the First Nat-
ional Bank of Northampton, Massa-
chusetts, died on the Oth of consump-
tion.
~Mrs, Charlotte PP, Woodward, 07
years of age, committed suicide, in
Syracuse, New York, on the 6th, by
taking rat poison, She was despondent
over the dissipation of her husband and
A despatch from Los Angeles,
California, says the body of Rev, John
I'isher has found. He
dl suicide, **Moroseness, caused
atiure of
+3
S011.
been
some of his plans, led
He was formerly a pro-
I Hopkins Univ
Robert J. Ruth, a fertilizer
of New York, committed
Baltimore on the 6tl y 1
He was 50
inet riset ine
LUISE LIC LAAS &
in Johns
num,
eC1il
¢
1 of
\
a)
1 Lis b
dy.
Philip Schembs, in jail at Louis-
a, for drunkenne ommitied sai-
¢ on the morning of oth by cut-
g his throat and malin artery of
his left arm with a tin bucket 1n which
soup had been sent to him,
tha
Lait
~—A despatch from Toledo, Ohllo,
says the tornado which visited that
section on the Oth originated in South.
ern Michigan, It first struck the vil-
lage of Sylvania, blowing down two
gas well derricks and wrenching a
boller from its brick foundation. One
farmer had (ity acres of fine timber
blown down. A brick school house at
Michie was destroyed, The track of
the tornado was south by east along
the line of the Toledo and Ohio Cen-
tral Railroad, and was from one to two
hundred yards wide, No fences or tall
trees are standing. Corn is scattered
and houses and barns are unrooffed for
miles, A severe storm passed over
Worcester, Otsego county, New York,
on the 7th, Amos Cornell was lifted
off his feet bythe wind, thrown against
a barrel twenty-five feet distant and
killed, Two other men were severely
injured, and four houses and barns
were destroyed. The crops were also
On the afternoon of the Tth
‘a tornado visited Binghamton, New
York. It lasted only a short time, but
parts of the city. A rain and
{ ball storm was experienced at Saratogo
Springs
and
it
wf . ~~
on the afterncon of the 7th,
considerable damage resulted,
—[tichard Hensler perished by a
1 & boarding house in Tonawand
| New York, earl
27 Several
by
jump
yrnell
tement has been caused
Datavia, Lib
of a panther, supp
fror wenagerie,
has killed a dozen
nd two cows, and has exhumed
oodles from a cemetery. Hunt-
jarties are after it. .
wed to
SOE
about
In January 1856,
Abram McCaban an
sployes of the Penns
10st their lives |
railroad bridge at
were began and a
fected on the 5th.
ceived $4500; Mrs, McCahan $4000, and
Mrs. Turbett, $1500, in addition to
$400 he received a year ago, The men
were employed on a freight train, and,
while it was crossing a bridge it went
down, caused by a heavy flood in Sher-
man creek.
—Sheriff Owens attempted to arrest
four desperadoes at Holbrook, Apache
county, Arizona, on the evening of the
4th. He was fired upon and returned
the fire, killing Andrew Cooper, and a
half-brother, named Samuel Blevins,
and wounding John Blevins and Moses
B. Roberts, the latter mortally, A
telegram from Syracuse, New York,
says the mystery attending the murder
of Mrs. Asa Stone has been dispelled
by the confession of Edward Sheldon,
a nineteen-year-old tramp, held on sus-
picion, He says he went to her house
and asked for food, She refused it and
stepped towards him. He stopped her;
she struck him in the face; he knocked
her down with a club, and, to stop her
screaming, choked her to death. He
threw her body into the cellar.
~The business portion of Calico, a
village in Southern California, was
burned on the evening of the 4th,
Loss between $75,000 and $100,000,
The large beading factory of Frank &
Adams, at the crossing of the Bee Line
and Pan Handle Railroad, in Ander.
ton, Indiana, was burned on the even-
ing of the 5th, In addition to the fac-
tory two acres of heading and staves
and three cars loaded with heading
bolts were consumed, The residence
of Thomas Trueblood was also burned,
Loss, $25,000; insurance, $20,000,
Trains on the Bee Line were delayed
ten hours,
-~-A despatch from Chattanooga,
Tennessee, says that several years ago
Marsh L. Polk robbed the State Treas.
ary of several hundred thousand dol-
lars while serving as Slate Treasurer,
He was arrested and in a short time
he was reported to have died, His
body was shipped from Nashville to
Bolivar, Tennessee, where 1t was
buried, A Mr, Gamble, a prominent
citizen of Anniston, Tennessee, has
just returned home from an extended
vichard Turbett,
Amos Baldwin,
fivania Rallroad,
estruction of the
Duncannon. Suits
settlement was ef-
Mrs, Baldwin re-
¥ Lhe (
i
2s 3 1 al x po
6th, destroyed 3 a graln
vator and a number of stables, caus
a 1088 estimated at £75,000,
Erie and Western
damaged that
Rawson is a town of about
itants. A
the Barren Fi Company, 1
Somerset, Kentucky, on t
of the 7th, the costly
chinery used in mining, The
estimated at over $100,000,
ag
The Lake
Was 80
was
1000 inhab-
fire in ti agine
badly
track
ee hii
Frcitie
Louse o
ear
Hue
¥
destroved a-
loas i5
~In Baffalo, on the morning of the
Tth, Alois 'roell, 60 years of age, at-
tempted to murder his wife while she
was alseep. He struck her several
blows on the head and mflicted injuries
which make her recovery doubtful,
Supposing he had killed her, he gave
himself up to the police. A few days
ago she had him arrested on a charge
of assaulting their daughter, and he
claimed that there was a conspiracy
against him. While Manhall Eastry
was at work at a saw mill in St. Helena
Parish, Louisian, on the 6th, two men,
named Swearingen and Newman, ap-
proached and the former said they had
come from Mississippt to kill Eastry,
At the same time he discharged both
barrels of a gun into Eastry's body,
Eastry ran into the mill, procured a
gun and killed Swearingen on the spot.
Newman then fired at Eastry, but
missed him, and was pursued by
Eastry until the latter fell dead,
— An attempt was made on the morn.
ing of the 7th, to wreck the Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul train, convey-
ing: the Burr Robbins circus from
Scotland to Yankton, Dakota. Old
rails and telegraph poles were placed
across the track, but, as the train was
moving slowly, the engineer saw the
obstruction in time Lo stop.
- A ‘natural gas jubilee’ washeld in
Toledo, Ohio, on the evening of the
7th, to celebrate the arrival of the new
fuel in Toledo from wells in Hancock
and Wood counties, A stand pipe was
erected on each of the principal street
corners, and each gave out *‘a roaring
toreh of flame as big as a haystack,
burning under a pressure of 300 pounds
to the square inch,” the Hlumination
making the city **as light as day.” An
open air meeting was held at which
fifteen thoueand people were present,
Mayor Hamilton presided, and
speeches were made by ex-President
Hays and General James A. Ashley,
, =—-During a steeplechase at Niagara
Falls, on the 7th, Lucy Lightfoot stum.
bled and fell on her jockey, Warder,
injuring him so badly that be died the
samo night, \ fn
George Godin was killed and four
t olliers were severely injured by a rail
road accident near Bathurst, New
Brunswick, on the 6th. Two passen-
| ger trains on the Wisconsin Central
{aflroad collided at Schleisingerville,
Wisconsin, on the 7th, wrecking a lo-
| comotive and two coaches, The infant
child of Mrs. John Past, of Granville,
was dangerously injured.
~The State Live Stock Commis.
sioners of Illinois have discovered that
the Texas Fever is rapidly killing off
cattle in the southern section of Chi-
cago. Professor Law believes that the
shipping of Texas cattle to the North
and East during the warm months
**should be prohibited by the Govern
ment and by all the State authorities,”
Thirty-three cows belonging to
John Clay, a milkman in Baltimore
county, Maryland, affected with pleuro-
pneumonia, were killed and buried on
the 6th, The State paid $15 per head
for them.
-—A heavy storm set in at Cheboy-
gan, Michigan, on the evening of the
6th, and continued until the 7th, T'rees
were uprooted and the smoke stacks of
several mills were overturned and other
damage done, A large fleet of ve i
are anchored in the harbor for shelter,
No wrecks were reported,
— Nicholas Kuebele,
and fataily
Becker, aged 7
' Pa 1
payin a
er’'s da ter. and
house, Hefus!
886004
shot
the
ensued, during which the
shot, In Omaha, the
Alblec fatally wounded
then shot himself dead.
James Saddler was kille
New!
on the i.
to kill Werts
got the drop on
shot him des
on
Jealous #
the cause,
Joseph Werts, in
South Carolina,
had threatened
but the latter
tagonist and
road.”
Twelve hundred
drowned a few days
spout on Careless (
county, Montana,
~Henry Esmond, charged with
mail robbery, and Edward Powers,
charged with murder, escaped from the
United States wing of the prison in
Rioux Falls, Dakota, on the evening of
the 7th, They threw a blanket over
the head of a depuly warden who came
to lock them up, gagged and bound
him and fled with 8330 and two Win
chester rifles,
—A severe thunder storm
over Lancaster and Chester
Pennsylvania, on the afternoon of the
7th. In Lancaster county the barns
of John Eaby, in Salisbury township,
and Amos Hook, Millersville, were
destroyed by lightning, with their con-
tents, Four horses and a mule in
George Mann's stable, at Manor, were
killed. At Bart, the public school
house was struck, and
pupils were
county, the |
sliver
slieep
by a
in
were
waler-
Meagre
ago
1
I'eex,
pas ae
counties,
$
Be
.
ss
$ shar ay
the teacher and
thirteen
Chester
'
rom the dwellin
| months-old child in the po
returning she found the house In lames
| and the money gone, She barely es-
caped with the child. The building
and contents were destroyed and there
Was no iusurance,
~Uhaplain Dram, of Castle Garden,
New York, on the Bth, received a
telegram from Rev. Mr. Danner, of
New Brighton, Penna. , requesting him,
if possible, to detain Mrs, Barnes, one
of 400 Mormons who arrived on the
steamer Wisconsin on the 7th, and
prevent her from going to Salt Lake
City. The request was made at the
instance of a daughter of Mrs, Barnes,
who lives In New Brighton, It is sald
Mrs, Darnes, who 18 accompanied by
her second husband, desires to go to
her daughter, but her husband will not
consent,
~—Dr. D. A. Tait, of Philadelphia,
and Miss Minnie Buechle, of Fotlts-
town, Pennsylvania, were to have been
married on the 8th. Dr. Tait and a
number of Lis friends arrived at Potts.
town on the evening of the 7th, and
found Miss Buechle ill. She died on
the morning of the Sth after an illness
of less than two days,
—The Hotel Arlington, at Saeger-
town, Pennsylvania, erected last spring
at a cost of $25,000, was kestroyed by
fire on the morning of the 8th, The
guests, 25 in number, barely escaped,
saving nothing. The furniture, valued
at $7000, was insured. A despatch
from Koehler, Michigan, says that
nearly every lumber camp in that part
of the State has been burned. On the
Sth a strip of country three miles wide
by ten long was burned over. On tbe
8th a heavy storm scattered the fires.
Full particulars of the fire at New-
burgh, Ontario, on the Tth, show that
nearly fifty families are left without
shelter; that nota business man escaped
the conflagration, and that only two
or three carried any insurance, and
these only for small amounts,
Thomas Crowe, Thomas Kelly and
snother man named ‘Walters were
buried alive on the evening of the Oth,
in the new aqueduct at North Yon-
kers, New York, by a cave-in of earth,
They are ‘under one hundred and
twenty feet of earth, and there is no
hone of rescuing them alive.
the Bth, Loss, $60,000, insured. Fire,
on the morping of the Oth, destroyed
the Roaring Springs Blank Book Fae-
tory building and a wagon factory, at
Roaring Springs ta. Several dwellings
were damaged. lL.oss, $55,000, A fire
ing of the 9th, desroyed
Drothers’ dry goods store, causing a
joining hardware store of Macy & Co.
to the extent of several
lars, A fire was raging on the 9th near
Louisville, Kentucky
of pine timber have
and many acres
been destroyed.
'
by and see their possessions swept
walter,
waler
bardly enough
on their places.
The fires extended for a distance of
about three miles square. The
Railroad station, Fulton & Board's
grist
blacksmith shop were burned at Wash-
Ingtonville, New York, on the
Of the Bth,
Matthias EK, Hermise shot
with suic intent in Newark
idal
¢
Jersey, on wrning of [i+
being
stock
there
for the
gq S95 (HUH)
Lo B, oa SUU,
himself
a ’
NEW
’
the Sth. Al
th, Frederick K
shot and
Wallace, whom
's wife die
months ago, after
him on account
Knight
a few
having separated fro
f his intimacy with the Wallace
woman, While drunk, on the 9th,
Richard Hanley, a laborer, 45 years
old, living with his family in a tene-
ment house in New York, attacked
his wife and Mrs, Margaret
visitor, and then set Qre to the build-
ng. The fire was extinguished, and,
furing the attempt to arrest Hanley,
was shot in the wrist. Mrs, Han-
recovery doubtful. Mrs,
wounds are not
{
{
he
‘go! ta
iey’s is
;
Clair's serious,
— Jockey West, who was Injured
the race track at Saratoga last month,
died on the Charles H. Kinser-
hoff, of New York, 45 years of
walked off the p.atform of a car on
Rockaway Railroad into J ica
on the evening the
drowned, Farmer Lyman, a
yf the southern
Grove township, Illinois, was gored
death by a bull on the 8th, A des-
patch from Oswego, New York, says
Pat llahan, a member
Infant
bry,
drowned
On
Gi hs
Sih,
age,
jay
’
ol y AL 1 was
resident
iek F. ( of Come
stationed
fe crew,
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Bird Legends
nor @
VIGOR
i
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il
$3 '
+ peop
re
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asleep, and tl
upon grew 1
ie tendrils of the vis
« 50 that
away, and [nally it
the other
or dared sleep at night.
und its feet
then
eT ——
Gypsy Women at Dinner,
bronzed, and both
and their
in front,
Both were sun
wore coral earrings,
bonnets were back side
squatted on a wisp of hay bands, by
hedged her in. She
four legs
ture to serve as a dinner table,
Bread and butter was spread on it,
and about a quarter of a peck of tur.
nip radishes, There was a bald, shiny
patch on the donkey's hip, set round
with hair, and this was made to con-
tain salt. Every time his mistress
dipped a radish into this extemporized
salt cellar, and proceeded to “‘scrunch’
it, there was an expression in the ani-
mal’s hall closed eyes that betrayed his
consciousness of her enjoyment, and
the satisfaction it afforded him,
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nu
She Knew it Then.
It was a frontier post, six eompa
i nies, Colonel In command and Mrs,
| Colonel in command of him; the boys
| called ber “*The General.” But Miss
{ Mary, the Colonel's daughter, all
{ thought was the loveliest creature on
| earth. Frank Moore, Yost Adjutant,
| a noble fellow, proposed and was re.
Ther came young Vanecamp,
| just graduated from *‘the Point,” with
| no end of ducats in the bank and his
| family, and he made fierce love to Miss
| Mary. The General backed him for ail
she was worth, and Mary did not dis-
| like the lively, good looking and very
| rich youngster, while she was some-
| what in awe of quiet, stern Moore,
| fused,
| tant walked up towards the Colonel's
house, When within
| porch, he quickly came to a
and made his way
| office, Ten minutes after, the corporal
of the guard appeared al the
{ with him, on a reeking, blown horse,
| was a ranchman., There was news to
tell, the Reds were out, families
{ had butchered, thelr The
burned, and stock carried away,
Moore again went the cl
juarters, and entered
Mary and Vancamp,
together, The
‘right
i about”
4 wr
LWO
been
(ii:
ve
Le 14d
{rive 1
v RY
lake care «
ulant
Cll Aan adj
would do you
riddance
of
, under her breath.
sir, I'll attend
2’11 start at once,”
Jpausing only to say ‘*Good-
Mary, to hold her hand a
her
that
and he
moment i 3, and to look nto
13 8 v av .
eyes with a deep steady gaze
Tt
tumult hie
the
the calls
i to beat
| were
{ 1ssuing of rations,
{and in aif an
Yancamp did not
before the news arrived, he had
1 by Mary. He told her
accepled b
d pictured
ol
QOous:y. 0
there
the orders, hasty
ts and raddles
’
were
'
Le}
BM
off.
5 Find
5 rs ’ wr
nour they
$ ff n i
aileen mine
go;
ules
been
i he would resign, a
ve 1}
| AOE IADgUag
ead.
Hit
OW
failed,
* & courier, lat
+b Fo
expedition, told
with
Let.
19
mmaacin
had one brush
All
saluted,
“*Beg pardon, Col
and miss; but the 1.
we started back, wrote
and told me, in case he
ber, ordied on the way,
them from his pocketbook and
them to you;” and the soldier
from his breast a folded paper—a leaf
torn from a note-book--and handed it
to the astonished, frightened girl.
these
could
I was to take
give
{00k
She opened it and read:
“Mary, I have been badly hurt, It
| is a long hard ride back, 1 may die of
the would or of bemorrhage, You
will forgive me when 1 say once more,
I love you, and never loved a woman
but you. What I saw the evenlng we
started convinced me you have made
your choice. He 1s young, but I think
a good fellow. You will be very rich,
but you must not refuss my little for-
tune; 1 leave all I have to you--there
ia no one living belonging to me.
Your father has my will, though he
does not know its contents, God for-
ever bless you, Good-by,
FRANK Moore.”
The girl dropped the paper and stood,
white and stil, as a statue. The
(General pounced upon the scrap, and
while she was adjusting her eye-glasses,
Mary was hearing from her father
and the man such particulars as
could be quickly told.
“Where is he? Where did you say
he was!’ she asked with bated breath,
“At McCarthy's ranch, twelve
miles up South Fork, Miss.”
“Father!” and she turned to the Col.
onel with a command of air and speech
totally unlike bher,—**Father, I must
have the ambulance.’
“Go,” she sail to the trooper, *‘tell
them to put the bes. mules to the am-
bulance, ask Sergeant Major Green to
pick out six men for an escort, and not
a moment is to be lost!”
“Wh-wh-what! my dear, why Mary!”
apluttered the Colonel.
“Hity tighty! what’s all this, Miss,
are you crazy?” boomed the General,
“It means that 1 am going to Frank
Moore; I'm going to him if I have to
walk, and by myself, He’s dying, he
wants me, I know he wants me; and
I'm going to him.”
**The girl's crazy, raving crazy! Col.
onel do you hear her? Why don't you
exert your authority. Oh! that 1
should live to see my child act so.
You shan't stir out of this house this
night, Miss, if I have to put an armed
guard over you."
“Iam going to Frank Moore,’ ane
wered Mary, and she left the room to
prepare for her journey,
The General raised a perfect cy
but her usually obedient daughiier was
deaf and dumb to commands, «nt reaties,
arguments, threats, and considerations
of what Vancamp might think, say , Or
do in regard to her actions, :
Mary conquered, The General pre.
pared to accompany her, and they were
ready when the ambulance up,
the grizzied old Sergeant Major Liimself
in charge of the escort.
They were soon at MeCarthy’
“1 am Mrs, Colonel Martinet,
the General, loftily., “You have
of our officers here, wounded;
i
drove
“How Is he now—how is he?" gasped
ooked
close al her,
** 7 Dead
an’ he's better
wudn
win they carried
ood nurse though I say
a bit ov a dochter beside
got him aisy loik, an’
stopped an’ he come t
ian we see | Fat
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Hsure one «
nd gnat
a large
she saw the outils
singie candie gave
black
One
She took it
own trembling palms.
The man looked up, I
’ . ¥ « 5 3
! Mary! can this be 3
{0 se ae
ar
really come
1 ing again?"
“It is me, Mary, Mr.
I came because I could
felt that 1 must come,
And now 1 fear I
wrong.”
“You could never do w
he whispered hoarsely again.
Your kind
comfort me
he whisper
Moo
res or
while
co
Defending the Co
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wie
uettie
is an amiable being. b
00g
nothing small about ber,
y business at retail. She dis-
tributes pleasure at wholesale, while
her mischief is disposed of in job lots.
She is the enlivening element amid
the heavy formelities of society. She
stirs up the froth where otherwise
would be a solid omelet that is served
up to you,
"Tis the coquette that provides all
the amusement, suggests the riding
party, plans the picnic, gives dash in
the private theatricals,
She is the soul of the house, the salt
of the banquet; the subtle power of her
personal presence is felt rather than de.
fined everywhere,
She 1s a blessing to the community at
large when she employs her time re-
moving the glaring self-complacency
of the average young man,
The man who has become possessed
of the opinion that a woman dare not
jiit him becomes, sometimes a useful
citizen through the coquette't minis-
trations.
How could society dispose of that
pampered son of fortune, possessing a
dashing tally ho, unlimited ice-cream
assets and superabundant sentiment in
his composition, if the coquetts did not
take him under her wing for a sea-
son?
Ah, for the pleasures of life the co-
quette is only too rare,
It is not every one who possesses the
ability for such a career. It requires
great energy, iniinite tact, and a gay
and alry spirit.
Some one attempted to be facetious
when he said a cogquetie was a rose
from which every admirer plucked a
leal leaving only the thorns for her
husband, but history teaches the re-
verse,
The coquelte oftener makes a model
wife; her experience gives her a great
knowledge of men, She knows their
weaknesses thoroughly and it enables
her to adopt herself to all her hus.
band’s foibles and hoodwink him into
accepting her own without him discov
ering he is doing so.
But then if you do not like the co
quette you will have no difficulty in
tinding a male companion of the same
wind as yourself,
She does ne