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TJ1F DAILY IIERALL), IXAi'l'SMUU in, ncrmrtOAiA, THURSDAY, APRIL 5. 1888. 1 . WOMAN AND II03IE. A MIDDLE AGED UNEQUAL WIFE'S PATHETIC, STRUGGLE. Keeping I'p Appearance Warning A gain t Fare l'uMlrt- Social America In Kcunuinj A ;lrP i:lucatlun. Tbe Nightcap IIoum-IioIcI Hint. Mt finely oricuiized women are no kus ceptiMo Ut tho qunhty of the moral utiiio jhero that tlwir v-ry THonul.ty alter with their -onliti.mn. They are el.jn,-nt in one fin-mmce and dumb in another, iuiu irre-Bx-tivo of their liking or disliking. In tlie warmth of nvmimtby, of iuU-reht and ap proval, even in the comforluidu meliiim of a decent civility, they flower out into variety and n gracious agreenbleuebH. In tbe chill of iridiffereiK-o or tolerant sileneo, their men tal iowem hhrink into tor tor; they have nothing to wiy. and if, from a sense of loy alty to tho domeHtic idea, they try to mako talk, they are. tacitly informed that they suc ceed in iteuig tireMMiie. No unequal Htruggle i more courageous or more pathetic than tho e'.fort of a iniddlo asl wife to conceal from lii-rwlf that the de bonair lover of her prime, her Oratiano, w Cay, no airy, Kjtfwkiti" hts infinito deal jf nothing, is converted into tho silent Ixxjr of her meridian. Tho tenderer and more con scientious tho woman, the more ready is he to exca-ie, lut tho more hu suffers. Vt'hen rutiauo comes homo at night with heavy fcU-pand heaviiT countenance, LitMing her u ftraht gool evening, 6:ttiug silent through dinner, ami, ly way of iHMt-prandial enter tainment, falling asleep in LU chair, burying himself in tho magazines or 4pruadiiur out hu buinew paier8 and working at them with a conscious "See how I am ready to slave myself to death for you !n in every flirt of tho wn, she nays to herself (and to the world, where he needs defense) that he is worn out with work end anxiety, tliat ho is abhorlmd in tho pious task of providing for Iter future and the children s, in case he should fall a martyr to Lis domestic devo tion, and that she must not mind his morose iiors. which is simply nervous exhaustion for whi'h ho i- not responsible. Lut she 14 not deceived. She knows that lio owes her something more and higher than tho "heaping up dust from year to year. Hbo knows that the evenings ami Sundaj-s and the holidays ought to belong to them together, to be used in the building up of the Iiomc, which is so much more than the houso. Kho knows that no matter how hard he may Lave worked, and how much ho mny have worried, lie lias met pleasant experiences, seen pleasant faiw, had some variety of feel ing in every day's round to relieve its monot ony, and leave him fresher than any twilight Iiour finds her. The difference is that he makes of his weariness a fortress, intrenched behind which ho may comfortably and safely defy all conjugal and social chums, while she turns her fatigue into a means of grace, re proves herself lor self indulgence in longing to yield to it, and goes out to do the social duty that cannot be shirked, or sits reading or workmx m the room with her oppressor, infinitely lonely in either case.. It is right that a man should secure a com petence for wife and child, who without him might cat the bitter bread of poverty. But If he cheats their present of all that makes it worth having, for the sake of a future that may never come, he is guilty of a folly that is cruelty. They are dependent on him for their daily joy as much as for their daily bread. To supply the one, he has no right to pretend to himself that he may stint the other. The police reports of wife beatings and wife tormentings aro too horrible to be read. But that brutality, born of thought lessness and selfishness, which deprives tho wife of tho moral oxygen that is her richt. which keeps her in the devitalized air of in difference, is a greater wrong, ltecau.se the victim is more sensitive and the tyrant moir. enlightened- Harpe"" Bazar. "bw.uty masts," "complexion balms "mtdicatcd pastes," blooms of youth, beauty or loveliness, "Lola lloiitez secivtH," not one is good in any rcsic:t. The very best is without value. From this they range down to tho depths of injurious and ghoulish ac tion. The best consist of an oil, fat or gly cerine, Willi some jcrrume and a trine ox gum benzoin, camphor or other drying sub- Rtan"cs. These ore fcimply nasty. Their ac tion is tho same as of lurd or butter smeared thickly over the face of tho uwtf. The rest are dangerous as well as disgusting. They contain tho same ingredients as the fueo iMwdcrs denounced and are even more pernicious in their action. Lead eolie, lead aralyms, mercurial ulcers, arsenic sores, boils, carbuncles, aljsccsses, putrid glands, salivation, sudden baldness and even more serious ills can bo traced to their use, and will invariably accoiuiuuiy tuat uso as long as the huiuau Ixxly remains as it is to day. Of tho rouge prvparut ions, those mnde from cochineal and madder are harmless. All others are bad, very bad, mid horrible. The "en a do vinaigre," "roiigo viiiaijjro, ''cam phor wine," "red j'pier wah," "cajwicura clix.r" and tho like, which dejiend for their effect ujion irritating the nerve corpuscles, aro unobjectional to the ;Jiysic-iuu. and chemist. The new preparations, which are solution of aniline and other coal tar colors, are oisonous and should bo prohibited by law. American Analyst. may bo made with rerm Ice 111 kutc&d of rice. "Invalid" Own Book." Iteclp for Snaps. This is an excellent rocipe for ginger snaps, the "snuppishness" being produced by boil ing the molasses and then allowing it to cooL Snaps Boil one pint of molasses, and wbeu it has cooled to about milk warm beat into it one egg and one teacup of butter and lard, mixed and melted, and two tablesxxnfuls of ginger. Work in floor enough to make it roll easily, with one tea.sjoonful of soda dis solved in a spoonful of warm water. Roll very thin and bako quickly. Remove from lan carefully. ''When cold they will snap. Cor. Atlanta Constitution. THE BOYS IN GRAY. Now that the gardening season is ap proaching, you will do well to remember that ail old can with a small hole punched in the bottom and sunk in tho earth beside your ct plant, if Oiled daily with water and weekly with liquid manure, will help it to a wonderful and delightful growth. Three Russian women, graduates of medi cine, have established a hospital for diseases of women at Koschan, Persia. Their experi ment has proved completely successful. They are reported to have been consulted by 1,500 !atieuts in the last ten months. WHAT CONFEDERATES HAD TO WHILE IN VIRGINIA. EAT Cooking Beef In m Camp Kettle An Over-Polite Soldier II read I'mMing. The Loulnlana Tigers at Malvern II 111. A Yankee's Testament. Social America In 1 R.IO. The furniture, of city houses especially. often costly enough, was almost without ex ception dreadful. Tho carpets, of enormous patterns and discordant colors and the fur niture of excessively varnished rosewood, or some like material, and always in "sets," were things to shudder at. The costumes of the women were in keeping with tho houses. Not only did the ladies wear long trousers of some white material, that came so low that it was impossible for the wearers to walk with out getting them in dust or rnirc, but the smallest girl child was rigged out in the same preposterous garments, it being thought fully immoral for a tot of 6 to exiiose her ankles. Tho ladies' boots, made usually of cloth, were heclless, laced at tho side, and came not quite to the ankle bone; while the one button gloves left the wrist entirely bare. The nearer the female forehead reached to the back of the head the lovelier, many even shaving the central liortion to euhanco their "beauty." Any hair that was golden or yellow was thought almost a deformity. and a girl with sunny tresses was looked uiKinos hideous, was taunted as a "red head," and generally used a k-ad comb or some wash to make her golden tresses conform as nearly as possible to the prevailing standard. All women plastered their hair in a hard, flat mass tight to the tkull, with bandoline or some other mucilaginous substance, as low down as tho ears, and then had it twisted in stiff, wire liko spiruls, or puffed out like bunders. Boston Herald. If you would keep your face and hands unwrinkled, use tepid water; very hot or cold water is injurious. Also avoid burying the face in a soft pillow at night, which always produces wrinkles around the eyes. Basements should never be constructed without an air space between the floor and the earth. If the floor i& laid directly on the ground it is sure to be damp. Sub cellars for this reason alone are very desirable. Type rubbing is one of the best paying in dustries for women. The work consists of rubbing tbe type after it is cast 'and to tbe point of polishing, which is done by men. The sun bath is the latest beautifler, and is recommended as the best means of attaining the irishman s "middle extreme, wherein a woman is neither too fat nor too lean. A slice of raw onion well rubbed over the roots of the hair upon going to bed is one of the very best things for any unwholesome condition of it. Keeping I'p Appearances. Some hypocrisy there may be in keeping up appearances. The lost sacrifices maybe made to keep up the parlor with a show of well doing, while the kitchen may be a pig pen. A tasteful, rather expensive, cloak or gown may hide uncloan and tattered cloth ing beneath. An improvident family man ages to maintain a carriage with some show before the community, while the debts of the family would more than eat up its posses sions if some way were not devised to evade tho sheriff. Grocers and other merchants are laid under contribution to help maintain families beyond their actual means. The man who piles up firewood will take pains to place the sticks with the sawed etires out ward, that the front surface of the pile may arpear well. And so it goes throughout life. This may all be hypocrisy, in great or email de-Tree: but. after oil. it means something deeper. People do not love to be hypocrites. unless we except the few Uriah Heeps. There is co amusement in deceiving anybody but yourself for the sake of deceit alone. Be neath all this are more ultimate actuating mo tives. Respectability aimed at, because it is a good thing; well doing is assumed be cause it is desirable. The handsomest gar ment is placed in sight because beauty is one of the great additions to modern life. 'As same a virtus if you have it not,"Baid Ilani- let. So, in our age. when well doing is not universal, when elegance and beauty and luxury are not common to all, their owner ship is pretended; and they will continue to be assumed until that day when we shall all give up the pursuit of ideals, or be honestly satisfied with our e Joria to attain them. Good Housekeeping. Penny Wisdom and Pound Foolishness. Economy only ceases to be admirable when it goes too far and verges on stinginess, and then it is very apt to defeat its own desires. The boarding house keeper who doles out two towels and two napkins a week spends more than she economizes. Tbe ljnen loses more by the hard scrubbing it must sustain to be made clean than is saved in laundry work by the reduction of tbe number cf pieces. Common sense is tho measure by which economy must be conducted. The guarding against unnecessary wear and tear, the mend- ing of tiny holes and worn places as soon as they are perceptible, tho stitch in time thai saves nine, tbe changing about of rugs that they may wear evenly, the making over of old clothes, the skillful disposition of rem nants, the watching for such little leaks as the throwing away of soup stock or the neg lect to sift the ashes all this attention to ap parent trivialities only becomes misplaced when it withdraws tbe mind from higher ob jects, and binds it down to a mechanical round that leaves . room for nothing but petty details. Economy must appear in not wasting nerve force and brain tissue for in adequate cause as well as in the avoidance of material extravagance. Christine Teihuno Uerrick in Harper's Bazar. Kigltcap Injurious. Nightcaps as an article of dress, except in antiquated farces and amatoiir theatricals, have gono out of fashion. Their universal use by our forefathers and foremothers may, lerhaps, be safely attributed to the fact that in the good old times sleeping apartments were uncommonly draughty. Ill fitting win dow sashes, large chimneys and antediluvian doors let in so much air that there was very good reason for protecting the head from the consequences of too much ventilation. Now adays the headgear appropriate for night use has become obsolute, so that it will cause no puinful shock when tho public are informed by the voice of medical authority that the use of nightcaps is actually ipjurious. MA man," wo are told, "might as well sleep in his boots as in a cap." We are not aware that even if a person did commit the former enormity any dreadful effects on his health would infallibly follow, whatever might be the results to his bed linen. Still, medical science is pretty safe in running a tilt against nightcaps, for the simplo reason that it is hurJly anybody's interest to defend them. London rews. A Girl's Education. I think a girl's education begins in the cradle. Who can say how early she discerns what she has no speech to utter sees, for in stance, whether tho people around her are self controlled, patient and sweet, or tho sad reverse) I wonder how many months old a girl must bo before she would know whether or not she was treated capriciously whether she was refused a thing when mamma was in one humor and granted the same thing when mamma was in another humor. And do you think your little maid of 3 or 4 foils to notice what cro your chief interests in life, whether you are most eager about your clothes or your books or your housekeeping? Docs she not perceive whether the poor rela tion who comes to visit you is welcomed as warmly ns is Sirs. Cronsus, who drives to yoji' door with her well appointed carriage? In short, though the little damsel has no power to reason, she has keen eyes to sec, and your own attitude toward lue and lues demands will bo educating her, whether you arc aware of it or cot, even from her cradle. Louise Chandler Moulton in Chicago Journal. From Shoulder to Elbow. 'I wonder," writes a fashionable milliner. "whether the confirmed wearer of the con ventional sleeveless ball dress ever reflects on the fact that arms which look white early in tho evening get crimson with exercise? From the shoulder to the elbow is a most treacher ous part of a woman's arm. With heat it sometimes turns as crimson as her checli3. It is not beautiful then, particularly when she is dressed in white. This only happens with plump beauties; with a slender woman that part of the arm is generally much too thin. I am sure we must be a decaying race, for except in rare cases dress is now a means of hiding defects rather than of setting off beaut v." London World. Women desiring to enter the London Soci ety of Lady Dressmakers have to furnish tes timonials of their "social position" as well as cf character. The air of a sick chamber should always bo kept so fresh that there will be nn percep tible difference upon coming into it from the outer air. It rests with our own hearts whether the four walls of a cottage shall not enshrine as much of bliss as the gorgeous precincts of a palace. . Rubbing the scalp for ten minutes every day with tho tips of the fingers is both a preventive and remedy of baldness. Put meat into a hot oven to roast. If the meat and oven get hot together the meat will be tough and the gravy gray. There is one instrument that no clever wo man ever learned to play on, and that is a second fiddle. Uncle Esek. To remove black grease stains from cloth ing uso cold water and soap. Hot water sets the stain. Some of the women of Paris have formed a league for the suppression of impure literature. Don't allow ashes to be put in a wooden box or barrel. Always have an iron ash can. Divorces would be unknown if there was as much courting after marriage as before. An old man in love is as helpless as a blind kitten. Sift flour just before you wish to use it. She Saw the Point. "That lady," said a Woodward avenue merchant, pointing to a woman who bad traded about $12 worth in ten minutes and was going out, "used to be one of my worst callers. She'd come in almost daily, bother four or five clerks for two hours, and go out without buying a cent's worth." "How did you cure herf "Well, I spoke to her in an off hand way one day, and she fired up and said that as long as I kept clerks it was my business to be bothered, Next day I selected ten of the girl clerks, posted 'em as to what to say, and they rung her door bell at intervals of an hour all day and inquired if she wanted a nurse girl. She didn't, and told them so pleasantly enough until the tenth one came. Then she said) " 'I'd like to know why on earth all you girls com here bothering me when I don't want to hire 1 " 'Because, ma'am, so long as you keep servants it is your business to be bothered 1' was tho prompt reply. "I think she reasoned out the analogy, for she now 6its down and buj's what she wants and every clerk likes to wait on her." De troit Free Press. Woman as an Employe. When a woman assorts that she does ex actly as much as a inan, and does it just as well, that is her side of the ease. Perhaps the employer, who knows just what the man does, and what the woman does, would be of a different opinion. Tho trouble seems to be in this, that a woman will do just what she s expected to do, in the regular routine of her employment, and do it well, but that she is not willing to be called on fur extra serv ices outside of her regular employment, whereas a man expects to do as he is told, whuther it agrees with his preconceived notions of what his duties were to be or not. San Francisco Chronicle. Warning; Against Faee Powders. Use no face powders that are not starch or rice powders, and second, uso no face pow ders that contain lead, zinc, bismuth, arsenic or mercury. Of tho numerous "face masks," Grain Soup Without Meat. Here is a grain soup without meat that is recommended. Fry in clarified dripping, or in butter, some carrots, turnips and onions, which are cut in small dice, taking care not to burn them. To two heaping tablespoonf uls of the butter or dripping and each kind of vegetable allow a scant quart of boiling water, a heaping tablespoonful of rice and a bunch of sweet herbs. Boil oil the ingredi ents together for an hour and a half, then add salt and pepper to taste, skim off the fat, add toasted bread cut in dice and serve. Tbi A Pretty Girl's Eyes. Although nonsense may be common in ultra fashionable circles, it is nevertheless often unique. At a recent reception one fair maiden remained persistently seated while the other girls walked about a great deal and struck pretty toses while in conversation with the gentlemen. Somebody asked why this attractive creature remained in bcr chair. "Because she doesn't feel like standing," was the reply. "Oh, then she is lame. "No, no. She has upward eyes," 'iAnd what are they!" "fThy, she has discovered that her eyes are exceedingly handsome wbsn wide open and looked down into, but when the observer is on a level with them they are not half so charming. It seems to be a peculiarity of her orbs. So she sits down all the while when on exhibition, so that the fellows as they stand before her in conversation must gaze down into her face, and in so doing en counter her eyes at their best." New York Sun. " " ' - 'u The Objection Easily Obviated. A gentleman of fastidious habits was lunching at his restaurant the other day, when a stranger came in and sat down at the same table. While eating the slim meal be ordered, the stranger looked across at his well dressed vis-a-vis and remarked i "I see you have had celery; will you oblige me" with ten cents to pay for some celery, sir P "I don't know why I should pay for celery for you, sir," answered the gentleman haught ily; "you are a perfect stranger o me." "Allow me to introduce myself," chetrfully responded the other, presenting card. "Now, sir, shall I older the celery, or will yonf I He got it. Detroit Free Press, I "Thar was er heap o' difference between tho looks o' Johnston's array and Lees," said Plunkvtt, as ho proceeded to fill his pipe with tobacco that Brown had chipixnl from a plug. "If thar was any gray erbout lice's army, I never seed it, and er man that didn't have er blue Yankee overcoat and er Yankee can teen, and all these sort o' things, was looked upon as a fresh fellow from home and ns more'n apt to bo er conscript. "Johnston's army warn't thnt way. They didn't have much clothes, but what they did have was Confederate, out and out, and I've seed er 'MO pound fellow with er coat and jacket on that looked like they mout er ken mnde for er fellow weighing about bO pounds, and er little old gray cap that didn't look like it was more'n big enough for er doll babay stuck onto er fellow that had cr heud as big as er i:ck measure! It kinder looked like they took pains to give little fellows big clothes and big fellows short clothes. "You couldn't tell Lee's army from tho Yankees, to see them marching erloug; but they wore er dadburned sight lx'tter clothes than ever Johnston's army got er hold of every old soldier knows this and I b'l'eve Lee's army was eating flour bread er many er time when the otVr r.::ic : . t:v '. v. on old corn dodgers." "They didn't none o' 'em have anything to brag on," suggested Brown. "No," resumed Plunkett, "they didn't none 'o 'em have much to eat, and what they did have w arn't fixed up much. 1 ho most com mouest way for er soldier to cook, though, v. as to put his beef in er camp kettle and set it by the fire and let it simmer erway there all ni"ht, and next morning it would be cooked all to pieces and browned with gravy at the bottom that was good enough for er king to eat. But they'd have changes some times, ami it's just as I ve told you, w henever ouo fellow started any new way they'd all eet at it, and they'd git plum disgusted 'foro they'd stop." "I kuowed er fellow," chimed in Brown "that was sich er good cook that he liked to have starved himself to death lettin' fellows tasto his vittcls. But he soon got outen that. Ho was one o' these here polite kind o' fellows that would invite you to cat with him if you happened up at his meals, and it was right into er fellow's hand to git er meal offen another fellow's rations, till pretty soon it got so that jist before he'd ox you to have some he'd turn erround, so as you'd be sure to see him, and spit in his eating three or four times, and er fellow had to be mighty hungry to cat any o' it after that. He'd tell 'cm that it was lister habit he'd got into, and there was er lots o em that took it up." "That's so," resumed Plunkett, "whatever one got to doin', there were others that would follow. I never will forget the dish what they called 'bread pudding.' It was er kind o sot tern ng or coia oreau ana putting molasses into it and then baking er crust on to it; and then there was er kind o' weed that growed wild in Virginia that they gath ered and biled for vegetables I forget the name o' it now, but it was erbout as good us poke salad." 'McClellan's army had better eatin' than most o' folks at home," said Brown. You are right," agreed Plunkett, "and our boys got er heap o' it, too. But thar was mighty hard times erround thar then, and er fellow couldn't enjoy nothin' what he got. That Chickahominy country was er. mighty bad place, and the weather was hot and the fields and woods got dusty from so much trampnr on 'em ; but when it did rain thar was mud to pay for it. If I live er thousand years I'll never rorget tne last aay o tuo seven days tignt errouna Kicnmonu. ine lost fight was at night, or late in the after noon and night. It was Malvern Hill, and tho fight went on till erbout 10 at night, and the rain was falling all the time. That was er bud place, and you never seed the light ning come noways nigh lighting up thj clouds like tbe Yankee cannons that were on top o' that hill, and time after time, and regiment after regiment of our boys tried to get to the top o' the hill and stop 'em ; but they couldn't and thar was many a good sol dier that gave up his life that night and died in darkness, with the rain falling down in his face, that there has never been er word said erbout in books, and never will be. "What was called the Louisiana Tigers went closer to the guns on Malveru Hill than any othfers, and they come mighty nigh bo Jng all killed there. Maj. Wheat, the officer what led 'em, went nearer to the guns than any other man, and was shot down, and as bo fell he hollered out to 'era, 'Don't let 'eic get me, boys J' and then there was a rush made to secure the body, and there was a hand to hand fight till two men caught the dead officer by the legs and run down tho bill with him. The next battle finished 'em. up and they were disbanded, only erbout. twelve or thirteen of them being left, and I have never heard of them since. "But thar hain't no use in my talkin.; erbout things erwny off yander in Virginia, when I can look right out the window here and see the ground where there was jist a bard fighting done as there was anywhero. J was over in the field there today, and as the plow would go erlong and turn up tho dirt I could find an old piece of Sbermatt'i shells every now and then. Jt looks liko we never will get the balls outen tbe ground, for every time you plow it and jist wait till cr shower of rain comes and sorter settle it down, the dirt will wash offen the balls and leave 'em where you can fee 'em. This is the way it's been ever since the war, and it looks to me like there has been more balls and pieces of shell picked up offen that ground than it would take to run er good sized war, and they djdn't fight there but one. day ither. "I used io save little things that I'd find, but I've give 'em all erway to strangers that would tell me they wonted mementoes, but I've got a little book there on the table that I've kept and I'm always going to keep till somebody claims it what has er right to it." The old man stopped talking as Brown reached over to a little table in the eorii and drew forth a little soilod Testament! There was. nothing that could be seen to identify the owner, owing to its soiled con dition. There was a note sheet of paper which had been pasted to the inside back ot the book, and there were three or four verses, and a name on it, but here is all that can be read? In this little book there's a promise that's prec ious. And but for that promise my poor heart would break; I give it to you and I know you will keep it. And read it and heed it, for dear mother's Ske, "I got that little book over on the Yankee line the day after the fight, and I'm pretty oertain that it belonged to er young Indiana fellow what was killed and buried over there. It was muddy and wet when I got it, and I brought it home and dried it, and I'm. going to keep it." "Sarge' i Atlanta Constftu,- Bargains I Bargains The firm AV. A. Uoeck A: Co., have succeeded Jioeck Si JJird- Ktll with A FAB SUPEBJOB im OF SPUING AND BUMMEIt SOOTS AND SSSOS AND EXPECT TO DO A BED HOCK CAS1-I BUSINESS YOU MAY STILL FIND AT Gault's Jewelry Store, A FULL LINE OF- Jewelry, Watches, Clocks, Silverware, r . Carmichael, an e.ei iebctd Watch -maker, has tiiken charge ot tin I'epair Department. All repairs "WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTIO IT And Satisfaction (J uarenteed. L5y fair and honest dealii g we hope to merit a hhare ot the public pat loiuiw. (.Jive us a call. O -A. XT Igv DOVEY BLOCK, SOUTH SIDE MAIN ST. The Plattsmouth Herald Xs a joying a Boom in both, its AND WEEELT EDITIONS. Tine Year 1888 Will be one during which the subjects of national interest and importance will be strongly agitated and the election of a President will take place. 7 he people of Cass County who would like to learn of Political, Commercial and Social Transactions of this year and would keep ajace with the times should -FOK KITH EU TIIL- Daily or Weekly Herald. Now while we have the subject before the people we will venture to tpeak of our jii lyiiClrMUyElivIl ' Which is first-class in all respects and from which our job printers are turning out much satisfactory work. PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA.