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"SEVEN BRATE GIRLS
Kisk Their Lives Daily in the Slums
of flew York in Order to
.'BEACH THE TENEMENT TENANTS.
'Mingling Among the SQialid Inhabitants
on Equal Terms.
THEIR WOKE ALKEADY BEARING FRUIT
ICOEKLSrOMJISCE OF THE DISPATCH.
Kcvr Yoek, Xovember 1C It is a plain,
old-fashioned house of three rtories and a
basement that stands at 95 Bivineton
street, and I think that the folks who bare
just taken tip their home there constitute ?.
family more interesting than may be fonnd
tinder any other roof in all New York City.
On one side of the house is a big lodging
with a beer saloon in the cellar and on the
other side is a Jewish synagogue now beinr
remodeled. Across the way and all
through the neighborhood are tenements
and cheap shops and low grogceries. The
population of the district is foreign. It is
the most densely settled ward in the city.
It is also one of the poorest." dirtiest and
most disorderly, and its police make more
arrests than are made in any other precinct
of the metropolis. In one year, according
to the latest statistics, there were 7,655 ar
rests. This was one-tenth of the whole
number made throughout the town.
And yet into this squalid, sordid region
seven charming college girls hare recently
come to lire. The falling of their young
unsullied lives in this wretched, vicious,
dismal quarter, seems like the falling of a
lily in the mod. But the girls are content.
They have been there a month and are
bappy. They hope to stay there many
more months and to be happier. They know
that they are surrounded by dirt and ig
norance, and, what is worse, by the dangers
of contagious disease, and the risks of
drunken insult and brutal assauit, but they
are fearless. 2fay more, it was because
they knew these features of life existed in
their highest degree in this Tenth ward that
the girls went down there to make their
home. It was nearly two years ago that
the heroines first thought of the unique
scheme. They had left their college halls
only a little while before, and were
roxi. or Hoprs asd tllss
to make their lives useful. Last spring
their proposed experiment was merely item
ized in a few of the New York papers. It
was generally agreed that the enthusiastic
young women had a laudable object, but
most men and many women said it was an
army contract that the girlshad undertaken.
There were prophecies that the diploma
bearers would soon be daunted by the
dangers nhd difficulties, and that their pro
ject would be abandoned. It was pro
nounced absurd, this harum scarum idea of
cultivated unmarried girls, accustomed to
surroundings of comfort and refinement
going into and staving in such an unclean,
immoral and altogether degraded district.
"Well, all doubts and forcwarnings to the
contrary, the girU have done it, and the
spirit of their philanthropy has begun its
novel life within the gloomy walls of the
old-fashinned three-story and basement
house at 95 Kivingwn street
Now, I want to tell what sort of a home
this is, who the girls are, wnat they are
doing, how they are doing it, and what the
results appear to be and what they znav be
some years hence. But first let me explain
the ODject of th work. It is in brief the
social elevation of the masses among whom
the venturesome collegians have settled.
The idea is of Boston birth. A college wo
man living there had heard there was in
one of the slums of London a settlement of
university students who chose to live and
stndy among tbe poor and unfortunate and
give to them plain missionary work in their
leisure time. They succeeded, and it is by
following somewhat similar methods that
THE BRAVE BAND
sow in Bivington street hope to record
equal success among the desolate people of
this New York quarter. The girls are fully
aware that many well-disposed folk are fre
quenting the squalor of this wretched ward
and endeavoring to remedy the evils that
everybody knows exist there. But tne
means hitherto used have not wrought posi
tive permanent improvement. It is an unfor
tunate fact that the ordinary mission
worker impresses the object of his or her
solicitous regard with the feeling that there
is a broad social gulf between them. Now,
people among whom city missionaries labor
do cot want pity. They resent it. No mat
ter how keen their poverty, how monotonous
their tread of toil, no matter how dull their
12-month round of hand-to-mouth existence,
they have inherited a pride, a stubbornness,
which arises barrier-like against the ex
hortation of those missionaries who (peak
and act as if they stand upon a lofty plane
to step from which into the precincts of
tenement life is a condescension in-
deed. The ordinary missionary is
patronizing, and the unfortunates don't like
.that treatment The ordinary missionary
tells the mothers, whose horizons are so con
stantly clouded by despair, that poverty is
the cross God has riven them to carry, and
that they must make the best of it and
brighten their lives with the belief that it
is a blessing after all, The ordinary mis
sionary ladles out charity soup with one
hand and with the other distributes tracts
about one's patiently bearing one's burdens.
Too often tbe soup is taken with a bitter
relish, simply because it has too much of
the charity flavor, while too often the relig
ious tract, without being read, is used to
start the morning fire. In too many forms
indeed the lower tenement house
families are made to feel that the mis
sionaries consider themselves superior to
those among whom they are working. The
most galling manifestation of this uncon
cealed belief of superiority is the fact that
almost invariably the missionaries and their
supporters never live among those whom
they would benefit And an almost equally
annoying thing is that the missionaries
sever welcome to their own homes of com
fort the poor folk in whose homes of dis
comfort they preach their unsatisfying gos
pel. There may be a prim mission' hall for
the lowly to visit, but the cheerful firesides
of the missionary's own household gods is
on an avenue of brown stone fronts, and
somehow tbe toiling mother, the weary
factory girl, the neglected child
KNOW 2f O GEEETIU G THEBE.
Now, the spirit of the College Settlement
that is the name that the girls have given
to their Bivington street home is the
reverse of the spirit of ordinary missionary
methods. They have gone down into the
misery quarter to show the miserable that
they are not too blneblooded to breathe the
same air, nor too dignified to lire in one of
the old houses. They have taken no tracts
with them, nor will they flavor with the bit
ter herbs of charity the soup they may ask
tbe tenement folks to eat They will not
preach the doctrine that poverty is a bless
inc in disguise, nor will thev ever let the
Bivington street people feel there is a social
chasm between them that may not be
bridged.
You know how in small towns the house
wives get acquainted by popping their sun
bonneted beads over tbeir back yard fences.
and venturing to exchange the salutations of
the day. Well, it is somewhat in this fash
ion that the seven, young women of Yassar,
Welleslev and Smith scrape friendship with
their neighbors. And tbe talks that fol
low, I imagine from what comes to me in
various indirect ways, for in truth no man
has ever been present at any of these neigh
borly conversatisns, are' not about texts and
tracts, but rather about pans and kettles
and recipes for barley broth and egg ome
lettes and the making over of worn dresses
and the various other household matters
that women living next door to each otheror
on the same block discuss with all the con
cern that men talk politics. Don't you
really think this is an admirable way for
these excellent housekeeping, college girls
to help their less lncky neighbors whom
"overwhelming care has made almost care-
leu and hopeless. And isn't it delight- J
ful how thesa seven girl rays of
sunshine are brightenidg the dark rooms of
the Tenth ward? How simply, too, the
secret of their success, this mere fact that
they are living among these people on terms
of equality? Surely before long there will
have to be similar settlements in other parts
of the city and in other cities where like
work may be done.
If there are any more American Toynbee
halls to be started, they may profitably be
modeled after this one on Bivington street,
and I should suggest that tk advice ot
Jeannette Gnrney Tine, the Mother Supe
rior of the college settlement, be taken at
every step. Miss Pine is a graduate of
Smith College, and it is chiefly due to her
that the philanthrophic scheme is at last in
operation. She is
A SWEET VOICED OIEL,
with a lovely face. Since leaving college
she has been with the Brearley school, and
although the Bivington street work tabes
much of her time, she still teaches in the
aristocratic school uptown, five of her six
sisters in the settlement are also dependent
upon themselves for their livelihood. One
is studying medicine; another has received
her degree as a physician, and the others are
teachers in the Murray Hill schools. It is
something of a sacrifice for these young
women to give up their pleasant homes in
more fashionable streets, but they knowit
will pay in the end. Dr. Caroline Hamil
ton she is the one who has attained her de
gree in medicine might settle in a more
prosperous neighborhood, but she is fully
willing to put out her shingle on the Biv
ington street house, and to try to build up
her practice among the people around her.
The four teachers find it a hardship to have
to travel so long a distance to and from
their schools uptown, but that is the price
of success in their work among the lowly.
and they pay it contentedly, and the one
girl who has an independent income is im
bued with the Father Huntington spirit
and is quite pleased that she may make her
home in Bivington street with such con
genial college chums.
Each of the seven girls has her own room,
and all divide the cost of housekeeping ex
penses among themselves. It will probably
cost them less to live than if tbey were in a
more select locality. But whatever the sav
ing may be it will be follj spent in the en
tertaining of neighbors. Some friends will
probably contribute to the purpose too.
The idea is not to make the home a free eat
ing place where a tramp woman may get a
dinner as she might a lodging at the station
house. The girls think it better to get ac
quainted with the people around them, call
at their flats, and then invite them around
to the settlement to talk and perhaps have
tea. They are going to be hospitable and
neighborly, but not charitable.
INCREASING THEIR-CALLERS.
The other day when I was down there I
saw one ot the settlers standing on the stoop.
The front door was open, and the fair young
Sister of Sympathy was just bidding goodby
to a party of little girls who had called on
tier, tone wore no nat, and was clad in a
simple house dress. To her skirts two of the
smallest children clung as if they real It did
not want to leave. Three older children
were half way down the steps. They were
all smiling, and for a minute there was some
laughing talk. The last words that the
settler said were- "Now, goodby, children.
and the next time you come bring your
mothers with you, and some other time let
each one of you bring a new girl with her."
That is the way the seven college girls are
increasing their calling list Don't yon
think it quite clever, aDd don't you see how
there is nothing in it that the pride of their
neighbors may resent?
And now for the bouse itself and the fur
niture. Beally, there is nothing remarkable
about the building except its cleanliness;
but that is a strange thing to Bivington
street, and the fresh white paint and the un
spotted walls will be object lessons, stimu
lating callers to make their own tenements
as neat The furnishings I can best de
scribe by sayingthey are simple and every
where inexpensive. The girls want their
new friends to see how much may be done
with a little money and a good deal of taste.
Take it all through the house, and there
probably is not a room on which more
money has been expended than the most of
the, nearby .families have spent for similar
purposes. Bnt by their good judgment the
girls have got better results than conld
their neighbors, and they know that this
will soon be discovered, and in time the
learning mothers will
PBOFIT BY THE LESSON.
The main floor has a big sitting room in
front, and a dining room in the back. The
front room has book shelves along the walls,
and besides the girls' own books and some
others that form the nucleus ot a proposed
circulating library, there are 200 volumes
given by one publisher. All these 200 are
children's stories. Downstairs, the front
room is Dr. Hamilton's office. It is jnst
like the cozy nest of any other young
woman physician, and here she will" talk
with her neighborhood patients about their
physical woes. There is also on this floor a
kitchen that is a gem of order and neatness.
Its big table is as white as any you could
find in a New England home.
On the floors above the sitting room are
the private apartments of the college colony
and there they are continuing the happy
life that they began in the corridors of
Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. In the main
the girls are their own housekeepers, for
they have only one servant, a woman who
looks after things when the settlers are out
She only helps in the cooking, lor the girls
themselves are not above attending, as much
as their time allows, to the wants of tbeir
table.
The girls began to live in the BiTington
street house on October 1. Four will stay
there a year. Three will leave at the end
of two months, and then three others will
come in fori two months so that many college
women who are anxious to help along the
work may have a chance to get under tbe
roof. Thus there will be a continual corps
of enthusiasts experienced in the scheme.
Of the four who are to remain a Tear three
had been visiting in tbe neighborhood for
some months before tbey decided to live
there. They are very much satisfied now
they have taken the step. Their college
friends are calling upon them constantly,
and Fridays are set apart for the settlers to
be "at home" to all college people. On
"Wednesdays they are "at home" to the ward.
Some nights they give parties to which the
youneer women cf the neighborhood are es
pecially invited, and to each young woman
the privilege is extended of bringing her
best young man. On Halloween there was
snch a party and the young folks did all the
thingsthat tradition says must be done that
night It was a most jolly time and the
tenement house folks had fun snch as no
ordinary mission conld give them.
A NOBLE AIM.
It is upon these children and the younger
women that the settlers are exerting their
strongest, sweetest influence. They don't
preach at them, bnt they talk with them the
same as tbey talk with new girls at colloge.
Tbey tell them the secrets of their kitchen,
why they think it wise and economical to
buy certain foods and cook them in certain
ways, they speak with them about their
dresses and tbe way to make them, and if
they see a girl bookkeeper among their
guests who has some pretty stuff for a gown
tne conege gins are glad to aslc her where
they may get some of the same goods. They
seek suggestions from their new friends on
other points, too, they talk with them about
boots, and lend them some Irora
their library, tbey show the tene
ment girl how a college girl
furnishes her bedroom and makes it dainty
upon even a few dollars, they have tovs for
the children to sit around the floor and play
with, they let them drum upon their upright
piano and finger the picture books, tbey get
them to learn to like to have clean hands
and well-brushed hair, and in a dozen other
ways without appearing to be teaching they
strive to have the children and the yonng
women of the Tenth ward learn to know
what a good home is, and how the people
there may have good homes if they will go
about it" rightly, even though they never
have great riches.
Yes, it is a stupendous undertaking, bnt
the results so far iurtifv the hone thit crrtmt
good will be accomplished. Certainly it is a
unique method, and the like of it has never
been known in this metropolis before.
W. A. Hot.
TEE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
Dr. Brown-Sequard Talks Frankly
Abont His Celebrated Tonic.
WHAT HE DOES AND DOESN'T CLAIM
Interview With the Famous
American Physician,
Pranco-
EIXG DEATH CAXN0T BE COXQUERED
rCOKKESrONDEKCS OT TUB DISPATCn.
Pabis, November 5. Dr. Brown-Sequard
lives in an elegant apartment on the
third floor, at No. 19 Bue Francois-Premier,
nearthe Champs-EIysees. The staircase is
neatly carpeted. On ringing the bell, a
servant in black, with a white choker,
opens the door and ushers you through an
ante-room into an airy drawing room, fur
nished in tne conventional manner
of French salons. The chairs and sofa,
of bourgeois model, are carefully con
cealed under linen covers. The wainscoting
and ceiling are painted white, and the mold
ings touched up with gold; the white marble
mantelpiece has its regulation looking glass,
ifs bronze clock, with side cups and can
delabra to match, and its dog-irons in the
hearth. On one side of the room is a grand
Erard piano, on another is a glass case with
pottery and books inside, while in the center
stands a small table with a few books and
some Japanese knick-knacks on top. A
carpet covers the floor, and five water color
sea views in narrow gilt frames brighten the
walls.
I was not the only person who had come
to see the doctor. There were half a dozen
patients awaiting their tnrn to go in, among
whom an American lady and gentleman,
and a very pale looking, blue-eyed, exsan
guineous Frenchman, who wore the red
ribbon of the Legion of Honor in his button
hole. The latter, being talkatively in
clined, like most of bis countrymen, told
me that, if he was not already in his grave
from anscmia, it was owing to the doctor,
who had certainly rescued him from the
family vault bv means of the elixir. He
had been inocufated several times, and felt
much stronger and better from the treat
ment. The patients filed off one after another
into the doctor's inner sanctum, and I went
in last, so that the doctor was in no hurry
to put roe out in order to make way for
somebody else.
THE DOCTOB'S APPEABANCE.
Dr. Brown-Sequard is a short thin, aged
man, with a thoughtful countenance, gray
hair, dark eyebrows, and a fiery, penetrat
ing eye. He speaks in a soft, quiet tone of
voice, and expresses himself with great
fluency in English. Those who fancy that
tne notea r ranco-American pnysiologlst is
in bis dotage are much mistaken. He is
still in the full possession of his mental
faculties, and his opinions, are. therefore.
to be received with all the respect due to his
remarkable achievemenis.
"I have been away for two months," he
beganj "seeking rest at Brighton; but I am
far from well yet I suffer from acute
muscular rheumatism and renal pains, so
that I get but little sleep at night
"As regards the tonic which your Ameri
can friends call an elixir of life, and regard
as a rejuvenating potion, I may here once
for all state that it is nothing of the sort I
am a man of science, not an alchemist If
quacks in the United States try to raise
money by misrepresenting my discoveries,
or giving a false color to the results hitherto
obtained by me, ot course, I cannot prevent1
tnem; dui am not to ue iieid responsible
for their quackery. Questions like these
take years of patient stndy and investiga
tion Before we can be sure of any one single
fact Withont being wealthy, my means
are snch that I can afford to proceed scien
tificallv. My experiments date as fir back
as 1869, when I was in the full vigor of
middle age.
"What I do pretend to haft discovered is'
a valuable and powerful tonic or stimulant
I have tried ten injections of tbe licmid nn
myself two in my left arm, and the others
in my lower limbs, in less than three weeks'
time, from May 15 to June 4 of the present
year. For each of these injections I used
one cubic centimetre of the linuid. The first
five injections were roadeon three succeeding
days with a liquid obtained from a dog.
In all the subsequent injections which
took place on May 24, 29 and 30 and June 4,
the liquid used came from guinea pigs.
WONDERFUL EESULTS.
"The effects of these injections on myself
were extraordinary. I must tell yon that I
am 72 yearsof age, and that my general
strengtn, wnicn nas oeen considerable, had
diminished to such an exten) that, prior to
my first injection in May last, I had to sit
down after half an hour's work in the labor
atory. I got to be so weak, in fact, that
when I came home at 6 o'clock every even
ing, I took a light meal and At once went to
bed. Often my exhaustion was so great that,
though very sleepy, I conld get no sleep,
and rose tired in the morning."
"From the day I took my first injection,
a radical change occurred. I felt my old
strength return. I went to work at the
laboratory as I had not been able to do for
years. The succeeding injections improved
my eeneral health and vigor to such ,an ex
tent that Dr.d'Arsonval and Dr. Henocque,
my two head assistants at the laboratory of
the College of France, where I prosecntemy
physiological experiments, were astounded
at my unwonted activity. I could run up
and downstairs as I did at 60. One dav.
after upward of three hours' hard labor at
the laboratory, standing all the while, I
felt so strong that I went to work after
dinner a thing I had not done for 20
years and wrote part of a very long article
on some scientiuc suo.ect. my daily cycle
being onlv 22 hours, instead of 24, as with
most people, I have always been an early
riser, doing most of my writing work be
tween 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning. So
that tbe fact of taking up the pen after din
ner, when 40 years had confirmed the habit
I was in of retiring early and writing in the
morning, may be looked upon as a more
serious test in my case than it might be for
another.
"Ever since ISCO.'when I first established
myself in London, I have kept a record of
the strength of my forearm. For two years
after that date, 1 occasionally moved 100
pounds. Within the last three yea'rs the
maximum was 76 pounds, lhis year, be
fore I took my first injection, the highest
figure recorded was 74 pounds. Since the
injection it has risen to 88 pounds. Prav
feel the muscles of my right forearm. They
are as nard as tney were zu years ago.
NOT ALL IMAGINATION.
"We will now examinethe assertion that
imagination plays the chief part in curing
people to whom the tonic is administered.
The effect, some say, is mental, and not
physical. This objection I had foreseen.
If stimulating effects were obtained on my
self, it might possibly be the remit of auto
suggestion. But if tbe same effects -were ob
tained on others, who had noidea of what
was being done, such an objection wonld
fall to the ground immediately. That was
why I communicated my discovery to the
Paris Biological Society. Other medical
men advanced in lite would make on them
selves experiments similar to mine. Beady
as I was to make on my own person experi
ments which were exceedingly painful, I
refused absolutely to yield to the wishes of
many people who, at this early stage of pro
ceedings, were anxious to obtain the effects
I had observed on myself.
"Thereupon Dr. Variot, withont consult
ing me on the subject, made a trial of my
method on three old men, who were utterly
ignorant of what was going on; and on each
of them the strengthening effects were fonnd
to be much the same as those I had obtained
on myself.
"Do I apprehend any dangerous effects In
the administration of the tonio? No. In
jections of animal matter offer no danger as
a rule, unless the substances begin to be
decomposed. In this latter case there is, of
course, great danger that inflammation may
set in and even death supervene. One
bright medical authority objected to the in
jection of albuminous solutions, as it might
determine albumenuria. Now I take it to
be immeasurably less dangerous to take the
quarter of an egg's meat under the skin,
than an omelet of a dozen eggs into the
bowels, as Gudin, the painter, used to do
every day at breakfast
"Great care should, however, be taken to'
avoid septic trouble incident on putrified
meat, as butchers have an elastic conscience
regarding the number of hoprs or even davs
since tbeir animals were brought to the
shambles. The strictest attention should be
paid to the cleanliness of the tools and vases
employed, aad so often as possible a Pasteur
filter should be used for filtering the fluid.
Doctors who have recourse to the process
should bestow on the operation, simple as
it is, as much care as they would in the
case of any more serious surgical operation.
While I was at Brighton, an experiment
was made, and when blood poisoning
ensued from utter disregard to ordinary
precautions taken in subcutaneous injections
of animal substances, the faqt was made
known to me, and my advice asked for. I
replied: 'The mischief is done now. Why
didn't you ask me about it before the opera
tion?' AMERICAN EIDICUIE.
"IJbelieve that in America, as elsewhere.
much of tbe ridicule which some have
sought to throw upon my diocovery pro
ceeds from the anti-vivisectionists. Do you
know how my tonic was first announced in
one of vonr New York papers? Listen:
'All that can be said of it is. that it is
compounded of revolting materials. The
physiologist cuts out certain parts of living
animals, such as guinea-pigs, and the pieces
of quivering flesh, pounded together by the
pestal and mortar of pharmaceutical com
merce, are made into a kind of paste with
water.. The essence of this compound is
then ejected underthe skin ot a patient
with a syringe similar to that employed by
the votaries of morphine. It is needless to
say that the results of Dr. Brown-Sequard's
experiments are awaited with eagerness by
elderly Fausts.'
"Now, you will agree with me that the
man who wrote those words knew perfectly
well he was asserting a down-right false
hood. I never gave out that it was neces
sary to do anything of the kind. There are
more horses flogged to death in the streets of
Paris, more lobsters cut up alive, more eels
skinned alive in New York, more cruelty
wrought in any one citv in a single day
than can be laid at tbe door of all the vivi
sectionists in the world during a 12-month.
Vivisection naturally has its opponents
among people who only regard the act with
ont bestowing a thought upon the beneficial
results attending the practice. It is difficult
to reason with these, as the word torture is
a very ugly one, and although generations
of humanity may be benefited by injury to
a frog, the latter, in their opinion, evidently
has the most claims to consideration.
"I may add in conclusion that there is
now no denying the fact that my tonic has a
marvelous toning effect upon the system,
and is a nervous stimulant remarkably
rapid in operation. As such, it will ere
long come into general use by physicians.
To say that it will conquer death, however,
is a preposterous exaggeration. I do not
pretend to rob death of its sting or the grave
of its victory. So far experiment has not
yet shown even that it will restore certain
functions that depart with the advance of
age. But I do hold that, by imparting
strength to an otherwise weakened constitu
tion, it will prolong tbe life of the patient,
and render one less subject to the attacks of
disease. It will rejuvenat&only in that it
restores physical animation, and thereby has
an exhilarating effect upon the spirits, giv
ing to the aged that gaiety ot voutb which
some people never lose, even in their 80's.
As a recuperative and revitalizing agent it
Is the most effective tonic which has yet
been found. I claim for it no higher virtue,
no greater potency."
"Hekbt La Ltjberne.
THE HODAG WAS SICK.
An Explanation by Which an Ex-Snowman
Escaped a Tbraihlnc
New York Snn.i
We had 45 minutes to wait at the depot
in St Thomas, and everybody was taking it
easy, when a young man from the farm,
who was drawn there out of curiosity, per
haps, walked up to a well-dressed man, who
was pacing np and down, and began:
"Say, isn't your natqe French?"
"It is, sir," was the reply.
"You were running a show in Buffalo last
March?" ,
"I was."
"Price of admission was 25 cents?"
"Exactly."
"Well, I was there. I went in. Yon had
a big sign out saying you had a HoJag on
exhibition. Bein' as" I had never seen one
I paid my quarter, but it was an infernal
swindle. There was no Hodag therel"
"Ah I I remember. He was sick for a few
days."
"Well. I want that Quarter back, or I'll
take it out of your hidel When I go in to
see a Hodag tne animal has got to be there
or the money comes back."
"Quite right, my friend," calmly replied
the other. "You happened to hit us when
onr Hodag was sick, but we gave you a far
greater curiosity in his stead."
"What was it?"
"The Exit Didn't you see him?"
"I saw a sign over a door, .but I didn't see
no animal."
"Well, if you didn't open the door it
wasn't my fanlt The Exit was there to be
seen, and everybody who saw him said be
beat four Houags rolled into one."
"Is that so? Well, I was in too much of
a hurry, I gness, and if I have hurt your
feelings I beg your pardon. An Exit isn't
a Hodag, but if you were doing the best you
could I have nothing to say.",
THE JERSEY JUHPJLNG PLACE.
Tramps Leaping From Trains and Punching
Holes in the Earth.
New York Sun.l
A section gang were working on the
marsh west of Jersey City when a reporter,
who had been sniping, came along and
called the attention of the boss to some sin
gular looking spots beside the roadbed, and
asked the canse. These spots looked as if the
end of a heavy beam had struck the earth,
and here and there was a ragged furrow in
the dirt
"And you don't know what them spots
isl" exclaimed the boss, as he looked up and
down the track.
"I do not"
"Well, you'll find them for half a mile
each way irom this, but this is the favorite
spot All of those were made between dark
and daylight last night."
"But how?"
"By tramps jumping off of freight trains.
Back there is where the whistle, blows for
Jersey City. Abont here is where she
slackens up to four miles an hour. Then
the tramps begin to leave the bumpers.
They jump straight out and come down
with a squash, and though they leave a big
hole in the solt ground they receive no hurt.
I've seen ten leave one train right here.
Blessed good thing for dead beats that the
Lord put this marsh so close to town. If we
had clay ground here there'd be need of a
big hospital, too."
A Small-Sized Libel.
Philadelphia Ledger. 1
An ingenious farmer in West Tisbnry,
Mass., has nailed np on his own premises a
large finger board pointing to his neighbors
on the opposite side of the lane and bearing
in very large letters the word "Pigs" and
with the words "for sale" underneath in
very small letters. Lawyers who think there
is a libel in it are endeavoring to get the
discomfited neighbors to try on a lawsuit.
A Costly Farce for Him.
Toronto Globe,
A juror in one of the Gweefore trials
having been ordered by the Crown to stand
aside, remarked that "trial by jury was a
farce in this country." As he was immedi
ately fined 20 for this piece of candor-he
has probably concluded that trial by judge
is a pretty serious business.
THE IKISH PEASAINT
Is Described by Mrs. M. Hnngerford,
Better Known as The Dnchess.
AH IEISHMAN IS ALWAYS POLITE.
i
His Thankfulness for tha Small Mercies
Youchsafed Him.
ERIN'S CUBI0US MAEEIAGE CUSTOMS
IWItlTTET FOB THS DISPATCH.
The old fond fancy that every car driver
in the Emerald Isle must of necessity be a
walking volume of witty sayings is happily
dying out The modern Englishman finds
him civil indeed, but dull and irresponsive;
and the belief that this arises from the new
and complicated state of affairs existing be
tween the sister isles is erroneous. In spite
of all that has been said or written of the
Irish peasant, he is, as a rule, not only shy
of airing his native wit before strangers, bnt
that wit itself is of a natnre so indigenous
to his surroundings that one outside hia
daily life could not by any possibility grasp
the "cuteness" of it
It takes an Irishman to know an Irishman
a trite remark that sounds dangerously
like "set a thief to catch a thief," but, on
the whole, Paddy is a "pleasant creature,"
with a kindly word for evervone. and a
deeply religious spirit His good nature is
born with him his gaiety is spontaneous.
His gratitude to Providence for the ex
tremely small favors vouchsafed to him is
large and unbounded. If it is a line day,
why," 'tis wontherful weather, thank God."
If It rains a good deal without being posi
tively tempestuous, "it's a fine soft day,
glory be." If the potato crop is passable,
"I niver saw the praties finer, yer honor, the
Lord be praised," and so on at every turn.
If the lower classes in Ireland repine or
rebel at all at that station in life into which
they have been called, it is always against
man their protestations are directed, never
against the Maker and Buler of all.
Mother Nature has been singularly care
ful ot their education. They are born with
an instinctive sense of courtesy that olings
to them through all misfortunes. Yon meet
the commonest peasant on the road coming
toward you, the everlasting "dhudheen"
between his lips, but before he comes to you
he whips the beloved pipe out of his mouth,
and calmly places it behind his back until,
with a passing "'Yis, thank God," in an
swer to your remark of "A fine day," he
gets past you, and can safely restore the
holder of the vile toDacco he smokes, to its
proper place.
Say it is one of their "soft" days, when a
heavy drenching mist is sweeping down
from the mountains beyond, threatening to
saturate your clothes and destroy your tem
per, and seeing a cabin over there to your
left you make for it with a view to gaining
shelter. You hesitate at tbe low doorwav
on seeing that the family are jnst going to
their dinner of potatoes and milk feeling
they will regard you as an unmitigated
bore it you insist on now claiming their hos
pitality. GENUINE HOSPITALITY.
Bnt no. Whatever their private feelings
mav be, you need never be afraid of a rough
or cold glance or word. Instantly the one
good chair is dragged forward and dusted
down by "herself," as the mistress of the
house is always called by her spouse. You
are earnestly requested to walk in. It was
a "sudden shower, sure enough," but
" 'twill be nothing, plaze God. S3te yer
self now, doj Alannal" it you are a girl or
"Bo, surr," if yon are a man. It is im
possible to refuse snch pleading, so yon take
the chair, and turn it that your eyes may
go straight through the open doorway,
where the pig and chickens are grunting
and picking, and mar by no chance fall on
the inhabitants of this "rustic villa," who.
no doubt, in spite of their cordiality, would
not care to have their meal interviewed.
Useless. The are obliged to you no
doubt, and being so naturally well-bred
tnemselves are quite alive to your intended
delicacy, bnt in a moment you find a plate
thrust under your nose with two steaming
"murphys" on it and a two-pronged fork.
"Would yer honour ate a praty whilst
you're waitin'? Do nowl Faith 'tis sorry
I am 'tis notbin' better I have for ye, but
they're hot, any way." Then, of course, if
you have a soul at all you accept the plate
gratefully. Get through the potatoes, even
though you have but jnst now lunched like an
alderman, and tell the kindly creature
atterward that they are the best potatoes
von ever ate in your life. This will delight
her and serve as gossip for the next day or
two with her cronies. She will chat a little
with you then, seeing yon are one of the
right'sort, and presently the mist clears off
again, and rising you thank her afresh,
squeeze a shilling into the hand of the bine
eyed nrchin who has been staring at you so
shyly ever since your entrance, and go on
your way with recovered spirits and two
large potatoes.
It is remarkable that with so much pov
erty among the lower classes their spirits
should be so universally joyous. A happy-go-lucky
lot they must be called, ready for
a laugh on the smallest provocation.
urtnemsn peasant woman it may be
said that she is as faithful to her trnst,
whether as wife or servant, as it is possible
to find woman in any country. Much has
been said ot her in the latter capacity as to
her idleness and want of systsm, but that
she is teachable is beyond doubt. In the
nursery, indeed, she shines as an example
of tenderness and patience. The Indian
ayah and the Irish nurse are the two most
trustworthy creatnres in the world; no
heart is larger than the latter's at all
events where the baby is concerned. It is
needless to sy, therefore, that she makes
an excellent wife and mother. Poor souls,
and how they drudgel And how uncomplain
ingly! With hardly enough money to keep
body and soul together, and yet ever with a
smile, and a curtsey, and a "God save yon,
sir," or "ma'am," as yon pass the cabin
door an d cast a kindly glance on all the
merry, dirty chernbs that cling around her
skirts, and are the coming members of the
"Foinest pisinthry in the world."
MABBIAGE IK ZEIS.
Marriage in Ireland among the farming
classes is conducted on very much the same
scale as that of crowned heads. A curious
fact scarcely "nnderstanded of the people"
in England. These marriages are arranged
and brought to a satisfactory conclusion
without reference to the two most concerned;
the bride and bridegroom apparently being
the last to be consulted as to the advisability
of a matter that has to do with their whole
life's happiness. The fathers and mothers
on both sides settle all preliminaries. There
is no love making between the young folk,
they do not even see each other as a rnle
until everything is arranged; he being in
his part of the barony, she iu that, and time
for "lover's dalliance" in seed-time and
harvest being nil.
Here is a man Moriarity, let us say-well-to-do
for Ireland, with a farm worth
so much, 20 cows or so, a'horse or two for
farming purposes, an outside car that
guinea's stamp among farmers and their
kind and a family of two sons and three
girls, all of whom must be in a manner
provided for. To the credit of the lower
Irish must be placed the fact that their
children are precious in their eyes, and
that father and mother, as they bring them
into the world, see their duty toward them
to the grand extent of laying up a pro
vision for them to the best of their abilities.
The eldest son must of coarse come in for
the farm ana homestead. They are as con
servative, about this at least, as their more
aristocratic brethren. The second son, as a
rule, is given money to emigrate, unless he
ohooses to carve out his own fortunes in tbe
"ould land." Bnt the girls are generally
the stumbling block. Hour by hour, day
day, the father lays up a little fortune for
them: one so altogether insufficient, In spite
of the many privations to which he has
subjected himself throughout a long life,
that something has of aecesity to be dose
to augment It And here Ilea thk tblag .
The eldest son is worth so much.
There it lies in black and white,
or rather, in sheep and cows. The neces
sary thing, therefore, is now to find a "girl"
with a "fortune," and wed the two; the
"girl's" fortune to go to the bridegroom's
sisters, in consideration of her getting the
farm and a husband. This is the common
law throughout Southern Ireland, and
though certainly primitive to tbe last de
gree, is hardly to be improved upon. The
husband, in effect, gets only a portionless
wife, bnt then he gets rid of his sisters, a
noint that mav present itself in trlmrinF
colors to the bride, at all events!
All these negotiations are carried on by
the heads of tbe two families, sometimes for
months beforehand the juniors being per
sistently thrust into the background. Say
the intended groom is ugly; that matters
but little if he is an able-bodied man, sound
in wind and limb. Much is conceded to
health and strength, the one thing unfor
giveable in Ireland being deformity of any
sort From that they shrink with an almost
childish abhorrence. As for the bride
well, in that matter the groom as a rule has
the best of tbe bargain, Irishmen being
proverbially ugly, Irishwomen, beyond all
doubt extremely good to loos: at
Oddly as these marriages are arranged,
they seldom prove unhappy; so seldom that
it is hardly worth while discussing the mat
ter. Daring a whole life's sojourn among
them.1 have known but of one faithless wife,
and she, as it proved later, died in a mad
house; and as 'or the husbands, three only
strayed into lorbiaaen patns a small num
ber, surely, out of so large a fold.
A FEATHER BED FOB A PIG.
Among the laboring classes, of course, the
punctilio described is not observable. Tbe
laborer has nothing to give or to expect He
lives from hand to mouth, and happier than
the farmer and the Crown Prince, can take
his choice of a wife wheresoever he listeth;
not but what mercenary complications can
arise even with these impecunions people,
too. I have known a match spoiled at the
very chapel door, because the bride failed in
producing the pig promised by her father,
after long days of courtship. I knew, too,
a case where a feather bed (that greatly
prized article with the Irish peasant)
was not forthcoming, and consequently
put a stop to the marriage ceremony. The
parties intending matrimony had arrived at
the chapel gate, and had paused to allow of
a greeting between the bride and bride
groom. Unlucky pause. Some friend of
his under cover of the excitement of the
moment breathed in his ear the fatal
tidings that "that bed" was a mythical
legend lighter, far lighter, than tbe down
of which it was thought to be dressed. It
was not there; in fact it had been confiscated
to pay for the whisky and porter for the
wedding feastl
Consternation followed upon this,and
grow on the part of the bridegroom's people
into stubborn wrath. The bridegroom him
self was furious. He, too, had gone to
great expense; .his orders for the national
drink had been generous and profuse and
to be fooled alter all!
He drew back from the sacred gates and
repudiated bis waiting bride with indignant
hands. Her stricken father expostulated
with him, not gently but firmly, but all in
vain. The friends looked blank. What a
pity to let the day go by withont "an enter
tainment" of some sort or another. Suddenly
a diversion arose. Someone among them
thought of another girl present, whose dowry
was a pig. Negotiations were gone into on
the spot between her father and that of the
late indignant groom. It was all settled in
no time, and the former pretender for the
owner of the feather bed now led to the altar
the owner of the pig (never seen beforehand
ever after proved as exemplary a husband as
one need wish to find.
Of all creatnres the Irish peasant is the
most light-hearted. He certainly may be
counted among the sociable ones of the
earth. On all possible occasions births,
deaths and marriages, tbe poorer classes
call their friends around them and kill the
Tatted, calf, which alasl in spite of its high-
sounding title, must ever oe placed among
the leanest of all lean kine. Nevertheless,
they make as merry over their bread and tea
and porter, as you and I would over onr"
"chicken and champagne." perhaps a good
deal merrier. They are indeed unhappy if
alone. Above all things, either in their joy
or sorrow, they desire someone near them to
whom they can pour out the yearnings of
their hearts. Sympathy they crave, and
sympathy most eagerly they give. Impul
sive, troublesome, careless, improvident
the Irish people are, when all is told, the
kindest-hearted in the world.
M. HtTNGEBrOBD.
1IAEEIED UN THE TRAIN.
A Novel Wedding Ceremony That Took
Place on a Pennirlvanla Coach.
New York San.
A yonng man and a yonng woman came
over on a Pennsylvania Bailroad ferry boat
from Jersey City one afternoon last week
looking verv blissful, very conscious, and
exceedingly happy. The young man car
ried two hand bags, two umbrellas, a top
coat, and a self-satisfied smile; the young
woman carried anair of mystery. Some
days since, at 1 o'clock in the morning, an
express train, running from Pittsburg to
Philadelphia stopped at a flac station in
the Alleghenies, and two men, and a young
woman boarded one of the sleepers. One of
the men and the girl stood just inside the
door, while the second man hustled around
and woke up the sleeping-car conductor,
and for a few moments talked in a very ex
cited and em nhatio manner. The conductor
raised several objections, bnt at last con
sented to do what was required of him.
Four minutes later a restless passenger
stuck his head from between the curtains of
a lower berth and saw a marriage ceremony
being performed before daylight, on a train
running forty miles an hour. The extra
man who Warded the car was a cousin of
the groom, and a clergyman. The bridal
pair sent telegrams from Harrisburg to dear
papa, announcing that tne wedding had
taken place.
Time for a Chance.
Montnomerr Advertiser.
If there's any one thing that this country
stands more in need of than another it is a
reliable scale of prices for foreign Princes.
It is about the only salable article on the
market for which there are not regular quo
tations, and it would appear high time for a
change.
Not nn Art' Critic.
Philadelphia EecordJ
Friendly repartee at the sewing society
"What do you think of my friend, Mrs.
Bangnp?" "Indeed, I am no judge of
painting."
"-A dirty house cre&tes a.
between Hie good in&n and
secure
iAoca
nw-solld cke of scouring sop'Tiy ib
I WW
SAPOUCj
dirt and raa
A complete wreck of
dishes, from an unclean kitchen, or from trifles which seemed light as air.
by these things a man often judges of his wife's devotk to her family,
charges her with- general neglect when he finds her careless in these partkiakniS
Many a home owes a large port of ks thrifty Matae and its
bappiness to SAPOLIO.
AN ENGLISH AKOMALY
Mrs. Askton Dilke on the Deceased
Wife's Sister Problem.
DI V0ECE LAWS IH GREAT BEITAI5.
The
Marchioness of Blandford's Famous
Salt Against
THE WICKED DUKE OF XABLB0B0UGH
icoBBXsroxcxHcz or tux cisrATcs.1
London, November 6. Amid the heap
of abortive legislation which strews the
path of every parliamentary session, there
was one bill this year framed so as to re
move what is at once a grave injustice to
women and an absurd inconsistency in the
laws of Great Britain. This was a private
bill introduced by Dr. Hunter, the member
for Aberdeen, to assimilate the English di
vorce law with that of Scotland. Ever
since the publication of "Faithful and Un
faithful" or "Divorce" as I believe it is
called In the United States has famil
iarized the English reader with the possible
hardships inflicted by the variations of the
American divorce laws, there has been no
point on which he has assured greater airs
of superior morality than in this of the mar
riage system. And he is, as a rnle, enriously
oblivious of the fact that he is offending
against the old adage regarding the throw
ing of stones in glass houses.
In reality, the anomalies in the English
marriage law are quite as great as in the
American. II in America there is a differ
ent divorce law in every State, in the
United Kingdom there is a different one for
England, for Scotland and for Ireland, each
of which is far smaller in point of size
than many of tbe American States. And
not only do the legal restrictions affecting
the untying of the hymeneal knot varv,
bnt the rules and regulations regarding the
wedding ceremony itself present a most
bewildering diversity. Special licenses,
registration, the publishing of banns, etc.,
all differ1 in the three kingdoms, and to any
one but a born Britisher the whole system
offers a striking example of the scrappy
nature of our mncb-vannted legislation.
Let us take in the first instance the ques
tion of divorce. In England proper a hus
band can get a divorce from his wife on the
ground of simple infidelity, while a woman
can only obtain a decree against her hus
band for combined infidelity and cruelty, or
infidelity and desertion. It an English
woman, in th& first burst of indignation at
her husband's misconduct leaves the con
jugal mansion, she forfeits all chance of
freedom, as she deprives him of any oppor
tunity of rendering himself guilty either of
desertion or of cruelty. Not so in Scotland.
There, as in France under M. Naquet'slaw,
husband and wife stand
ON AN EQTAI. POOTTNO
as regards infidelity, and a further ground
for procuring an absolute dissolution of the
contract is "provided by desertion for four
years. Dr. Hunter's recent bill wonld have
conferred similar privileges ori English
women, and his failure to secure a day for
the discussion of his measure was a rare dis
appointment to all of us who believe in the
superior morality of equal laws for both
sexes.
In Ireland, on the other hand, there is
correctly speaking no divorce at all. When
the English divorce law was passed in 1857,
Ireland was excluded from its sphere of
operation, partly because in a Catholic
country the lav was likely to remain in
operative, and partly, no doubt because the
Irish, as a people, are so extremely moral
that the necessity for any relaxation of the
bonds of matrimonr was verv little felt.
An Irishwoman has no redress whatever
against her husband, and an Irishman who
wishes to be rid of his wife has a wearisome
and expensive task before him. He must
first obtain a decree of separation a mensa et
thoro in ibe Dublin ecclesiastical courts;
then he must win an action for damages
against his rival in the civil court and
finally he mnst carry his case to the House
of Lords and induce their lorships to pass a
special act annulling his marriage. He may
consider himself lucky if at the end of the
process he is not more than 1,000 out of
pocket
The fundamental idea of the English
divorce law and here it differs very largely
from that of Anfenea is one of punish
ment Hence the somewhat bewildering
theory that in matrimonial matters, two
Blacks make a white, or, iu other words,
that where both husband and wife hare
sinned against etch other neither of them
are entitled to redress. This fact is best ex
emplified in the notorious Marlborough di
vorce case. When the Marchioness of
Blandford obtained a decree of divorce for.
infidelity and cruelty against her husband,
the present Dnke of Marlborough, on ac
count of his relations with the then Count
ess of Aylesford, the Earl of Aylesford was
debarred on his side from divorcing his wife
owing to the fact that he had already sought
and fonnd consolation elsewhere. The most
natural result of the theory is an immense
multiplication of cross-suits, the guilty
party trying to shield himself behind an
acensation of tu quoqne.
In England, for some mysterious reason,
the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty cases
are all mnddled np together in one court,
which, is presided over by Sir James Han
sen, one of the ablest and most impressive
of living English Judges, and by Sir
Charles Butt, who is popularly reported to
have selected the post in order to avoid
leaving his verv pretty young American
wife alone at home while he m
! was away on
circuit
an Airusnro pabadoi
One of tbe most comic absurdities of the
present marriage laws in England is that
whereas it fa strictly prohibited to marry
your deceased wife's sister, there is nothing
to prevent a man from marrying his di
vorced wife's sister, should he feel so dis
posed, even during the lifetime of his repu
diated partner.
But this brings us straight to the great
deceased wife's sister' question, which pre
sents one of the most flaring anomalies of
the English marriage system. Marriage
with a deceased wife's sister has been legal
ized in all our colonies, American and Aus
tralian, with the full consent of the Crown.
A bill with a similar object has repeatedly
passed the Hoase of Commons. Yet
jmm
reduces tabor Jsurcortj
- kes home hrighfrajni
domestic happiness has often resulted from, badly
-Vjr"7Sr
year after year it is Introduced
into the House of Lords, and! time
after time it is rejected on the second read
ing. TheBoyal Dukes invariably come
down en masse on this occasion to vote for
the bill, originally, it was said, in order
that Princess Beatrice might marry her
brother-in-law, tbp Grand Duke of Hesse;
the Bishops in their aprons and gaiters alio
come down en masse and vote against it; It
is a sort of duel of Prince versus Bishops;
bnt the Spiritual Lords are in the majority,
and so far have won the day. In the mean
while many an honest couple are waiting
wearily for the legitimization of their
union, and many a husband and wife
legally married in the colonies haje to sub
mit to the injustice of seeing their ehildreai'1
treated as illegitimate in the mother country
and debarred from inheriting either titles -or
property.
On the whole, polite society in London re- ,
gards these unauthorized unions in a very1',
tolerant spirit, and the dereased wife's sister,
if not accorded the full privileges of a wife,,
does not undergo a very severe lonn of social'
ostracism. One of the best-known case of J
this kind Is that of the artist, Mr. Holmaa"
Hnnt and his wife; and only this spring'the,
subject was once more threshed oat by$
society when the Hon. John Collier, brother
to Lord Monkswell, and himself anl
able portrait painter, married thef
youngest daughter of Prof. Huxley, hia1
first wife, the Professor's eldest dauglvW
ter having died some three years ago. InJi
order to render the union as correct a
circumstances would permit, the., young
couple were legally married at Christianlav,
Mr. Burnand. too, the genial and inimitable t
editor of Punch, has married hlx iir:in...
law, but he could the more easily afford.to V
refused by Cardinal Manning, but Mr.
Burnand fortunately possessed influential
friends at the Vatican, and Pins IX. proved;'
himself more accommodating.
uispeniB iHia me legal sanction, navingsr
provided himself, as a Catholic, withjkthet'i
Papal dispensation. The dispensation vai& t t
A CTTBIOUS DISTINCTION.
The deceased wife's sister bill, as intro
duced into the House of Lords, never in
cludes within its scope the marriage of a
woman with her deceased husband's brother.
In countries where tbe distinction is main
tained, a curious point of law would cer
tainly arise if we suppose that two brothers
having married two sisters, and one partner
in each union having died, the remaining
brother and sister-in-law wished to marry
one another. Begarded as the marriage of
a man with his deceased wife's sister.it
would be illegal;considered with equal accn
racy, as the union of a woman with herde-
ceased husband's brother, it would be'le-
gal. The lay mind feels quite unequal to.' .
the solntion of the problem. f .
One Other little inconsistency of our law,.. j
must not be omitted. Although for matri '
monial purposes the wife's sister is placed i
in the category of blood relations, for testa-jS
mentary purposes she is regarded by the lawff
as an absolute stranger. Thus, when a maalj
leaves a legacy to his sister-in-law, the, fair
probate duty of 10 per cent on the amount is
claimed 1
It was a great joy to polite society which
loathes a solemn wedding breakfast when
the hours for celebrating matrimony were
extended till 3 in the afternoon. Previous
to that, any couple wishing to be married '
after 13 o'clock had to obtain a special
license at a cost of (250 from the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury. As His Grace en-
tered a strong conscientious objection to
ladles appearing in church in evening dress,
he has persistently declined to grant a
license for any hour later than 4 o'clock.
Marriage, by banns, to" be called in the
course, the usual mode of procedure, but ioF
London, at least, iris considered tres tour-r
geois to have one's name called in chureh&jf
and smart marriages are always by special
license, which can be obtained tor a Jewviv j
guineas. v h
BUNA-WAT HATCHES.
Bnnaway matches in England usually-?
take place before tha registrar, an ofSciali
whose office is crenerallr to be found in closet'
proximity to the parish workhouse, HerJ ,;
yon can be married by special license.atfwSa,
fevr hours' notice, and at a yery small "costAiB
It was fn this way thai a pretty1hifMc7fH
Mrs. Lena Scott was entrapped iafaIanMP
naee or air. x.agsr ocongui, u jainxuar
on Individual who had designs off he
fortune. The ceremony was snbsequentlyj
annulled on the grounds of undue tnnuences
and the case furnished the cause celebra of j
the season, some" few years baek.
If a man runs away with a ward in','
Chaneerv a case which not unfreauentlvju
occurs he can not only be prosecuted, but!
also suffer imprisonment at tne pleasure ots
the Chaneerv iudge. who always insists onl
his ward' fortune being strictly tied np for$
her sole beneht; bnt tne marriage cannot Del
annulled. -VJB
As will be seen from the above sketchy
the Entrlish marriage laws still leave beanS
coup a desirer from the point of view of d
uniformity and common sense. oomei
day, not very far distant, it is to be hop
xra ihall enfov a simnler intern.
which women will be uniformly treatedJ
on the same footing as men. Ai
a woman, X have always been specially in-: ;
vf1 In tfiA murriflcrf. nnMiinn. for it ia
... w.am7...I.A .T. . w1lMIMM..Il... M.IM. .. I .1 i M
inequalities or irregularities in the law, it
is cnieny tne woaea wuo are me victims.
To a great extent, I fancy, from what I r
learned when in yonr country, that Jt must, '
be so in the United States at the present fs
day; and both here and in America tbe best
remedy is to be fonnd by giving toVoaea;
the legitimate influence of the polities ;
vote. M. M. Dilafil?
EED TAPS Iff SAlLROABISSjj
Clrealti Xeateof aa &rtterMTn9t-Wl&
... H . v1' frK-
u. seat i a- vaaca.
"Talk aboutred tape in railroading!-
got tangled up in it while- is New York,?
remarked State Attorney Mitchell to an J
dianapolis JTetci reporter.
"We took a train on a little railroad
on e of the summer resorts, and Mrs, MitchelU
feeling ill, I asked thebrakeaaa to turn o.
of the seat for us. He said he wonld lil
to accommodate me, but I would have''
speak to the conductor. I spoke to the coa
ductor. and he declared that he woald be
delighted to accommodate me, but I woaldj
nave to get. an order from the Sar
tendent
"So I telegraphed to the Soperlatende4
ana got an oraer to tarn down tne seat.' ':
gave the order to the conductor, the c
ductor passed it over to tha brakemaa, i
the brakeman turned the seat"
strife,
his wlfa?
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