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The Sioux County Journal,
VOLUME VIII.
HAKKISOX, NEBRASKA THURSDAY, APRIL 0, 18.
NUMBER 31.
i
Walter Beaaut Is authority for the
statement that there are fifty novelists
In England who ha?e Incomes of 5,
00 a year or over.
Mark Twain In meeting with a most
pntfcuslastic reception In Australia. Ha
li being banqueted by mayors and
prominent citizens In all the leading
eJUss.
' Blder Haggard haa determined to In
fest the profits of his work as a story
writer In Journalism. He will own and
Manage a Tory dally paper In Norwich,
Pnfiaad.
A new venture, the Penny Magailns,
was launched the 20th of January, ts
be published monthly hereafter. The
I'snny Magazine Company, of Phila
delphia, are the publishers.
. Luther's Bible, which be used In his
tody, is in possession of a Berlin mu
stum. Its margins are covered with
net In Luther's handwriting-. It was
prtBterf at Bale in 1500. and is excel
lently preserved.
Borne of Prof. Itlchard T. Ely's works
b sociological questions have been
translated Into Japanese. And bis
bsok, "The Outlines of Economics," has
Men printed In raised characters for
the use of tbe blind.
Professor Cesare Imbroso, who ad
Vises that children and youths of habit
ual criminal tendencies be Isolated as
loaatlcs, says there Is scarcely a child
who does not abuse his power over
those who are weaker than he.
SAD SCENE AT AN AUCTION.
followril by Olerful Chncklea Ft
Honrs lister
"Who bids?"
The auctioneer held up a child's rock
ing home, battered and Mtained. It
had belonged to some little member of
the man's family whom household
property was being sold under the
hammer.
lie was utterly ruined. He had
given ii) everything In the world to
his creditors house, furniture, horses,
stock of goods and lauds. He stood
among the crowd watching the sale
that wan scattering bis household
goods and his heirlooms among a linn
dred Hlningn hands.
On his arm leiined a woman, heavll
veiled.
"Who bids?"
The auctioneer held the rocklngliors-
blgh, that It might be soon. Childly
hand had torn away the scanty mane;
the bridle win twisted nnd worn by
temler little fingers. The crowd was
Mill.
The womun under the heavy veil
sobbed and stretched out her hands.
"No, no. no!" she cried.
The man's face was white with emo
tion. The little form that once so merri
ly rode the old rocking home had drift
ed away Into the world years ago.
This was the only relic left of his happy
Infancy.
The auctioneer, with a queer mois
ture In his eyes, handed the rorklng
horse to (he man without a word. He
selr-ed it with eager hands, and he and
the veiled woman hurried sway.
The erowd murmured with sym
pathy. The man and the woman went Into
an empty room and set therm-king horse
down. He took out his knife, ripped
oien the front of the horse and took
out a roil of bill. He counted them
unci said:
"It's a cold day when 1 fall without
B rake-off. Eight thousand live hun
dred dollars, but that auctioneer came
very near busting tip the game." Hous
ton Pout.
Ilalzao on Color Influences.
Halite's curious speculations suggest
the extent to which color Influence
our human life. He had noticed thai
a woman who hud a taste for orange
or green gowns was quarrelsome; one
who wore a yellow or blaek apparel,
without apparent cause, was not to
be trusted; preference for white show
ed a coquette spirit; gentle and thought
ful women prefer pink; women who
regard themselves as lielng unfortun
ate prefer pearl gray; lilac is the shade
particularly affeeted by "overripe
liesntlcs;" wherefore, the great author
held, lilac hats are mostly worn by
mothers on their daughters' marriage
day, and by women more than 40 years
old when they po visiting. These the
ories are founded upon the principles
of color, as already laid down; namely,
that red and yellow excite; green, tern-iteri-d
by blue, Is bilious; orange la
fiery; gray Is cold snil melancholy; 11
1m Is a light shade of purple, the most
retiring color of the scale. Popular
Science News.
Love's Doubt a.
She (honeymtsui over)-1 dou't be
Heve you ever did truly love me.
He- tinat Hcoit, woman! I married
you, didn't I?
She- Yes, That's the reason. Cin
cinnati Enquirer,
Not Uncommon.
Yeast Men turn somersaults on
horseback. I siipiNme before long we'll
ee idem doing it on lh bicycle.
t'rlmmmbeak Why, man alive, that
was the first thing I did on a wbesL
Yeuker Hisieaman,
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
REV. OR. TALMAGE FINOS TWO
UNIQUE TEXTS.
And Preaches Broad fkraon on tbe
Divine Mission of Newspapers Be
Bajs They Are the Most Potent Vehi
cles of Knowledae of the Age.
Capital City Her ion.
Newspaper row, as it is called in Wash
ington, tbe long row of offices. connected
with prominent journals throughout the
taad, pays so much attention to Dr. Tal
mage they may be glad to hear what he
thinks of them while he discusses a sub
ject in which the whole country is inter
ested. His texts Sunday were, "And the
wheels were full of eyes" (Kzekiel x., 12),
''For all tbe Athenians and strangers
which were there spent their time in noth
ing else hut either to tell or to hear some
new tilings" (Acts xvil., 21).
What is a preacher to do when he finds
two texts equally good and suggestive?
In that perplexity I take both. Wheels
full of eyes? What but the wheels of a
oewspapcr printing press? Other wheels
are blind. They roll on, pulling or crush
ing. The manufacturer's wheel how it
triDds theo)M-rator with fatigues and rolls
aver nerve and muscle and bone and
heart, not knowing what It does. Tbe sew
ing machine wheel sees not the aches and
pains fastened to it tighter than the band
that moves it, sharper than the needle
which it plies. Every moment of every
hour of every day of every month of ev
ry year there are hundreds of thousands
f wheels of mechanism, wheels of enter
prise, wheels of hard work, in motion, hut
thry are eyeless.
Not so the wheels of the printing press.
Their entire business is to look and report.
They are full of optic nerves, from axle to
periphery. They are like those spoken of
hy Ezckiel ns full of eyes. Sharp eyes,
nearsighted, farsighted. They look up.
They look down. They look far away.
They take in the next street and the next
hemisphere. Eyes of criticism, eyes of in
vestigation, eyes that twinkle with mirth,
eyes glowering with Indignation, eyes ten
der with love, eyes of suspicion, eyes of
hope, blue eyes, black eyes, green eyes,
holy eyes, evil eyes, si"i eyes, religious
eyes, eyes that see everything. "And the
wheels were full of eyes. But in my
second text is the world's cry for the
newspaper. Paul describes a clans of peo
ple in Athens who spent their time either
In gathering the news or telling it. Why
eaccially in Athens? Because the more
intelligent people become the more in
quisitive they are not about small things,
but great things.
What Is the New.?
The question then most frequently is
the qui-slion now most frequently asked.
What is the news? To answer that cry in
the text for the newspaper the centuries
have put their wits to work. China first
succeeded and has at Peking a newspaper
that has been printed every week for l.iNK)
years, printed on silk. Home succeeded
by publishing the Acta LMurnn, iu the
same column putting tires, murders, mar
riages and tempesls. Prance succeeded
by a physician writing out the news of
the day for his patients. England suc
ceeded under Queen Elizabeth in first pub
lishing tlie news of the Spanish armada
and going on until she hail enough enter
prise, when the battle of Waterloo was
fought, deciding the destiny of Europe, to
give it one-third of a column in the Lou
don Morning Chronicle, about as much
as the iiKwpacr of our day gives to a
small lire. America succeeded by Benja
min Harris' first weekly mcr, called
Public Occurrences, published In Boston
in Kits, ami by the first daily, the Ameri
can Advertiser, published In Philadelphia
in 1TS1.
The. newspaper did not suddenly spring
upon the world, but came gradually. The
genealogical line of the newspaper is this:
Tbe Adam of the race was a circular or
news letter crcitted by divine impulse in
human nature, and the circular begat the
pamphlet, and the pamphlet begat the
quarterly, and the quarterly begat the
weekly, niiii the weekly begat the semi-
weekly, and the semi-weekly begat the
daily. But, nlas, by what a struggle it
came to its present development! No
sooner had its swer been demonstrated
than tyranny ami superstition shackled it.
There is nothing that despotism so fears
and hales ns a printing press. It has too
many eyes In its wheel. A great writer
declared that the king of Naples made it
unsafe for him to write of anything but
natural history. Austria could not endure
Kossuth's journalistic pen pleading for the
redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I., try
ing to keep his iron heel on the necks of
nations, said, "Editors are the regents of
sovereigns and the tutors of nation and
are only fit for prison," But the battle
for the freedom of the press was fought
In the courtrooms of England and Amer
ica and decided before til ins century began
by Hamilton's eloquent plea for J. Peter
Zenger's Ciisette in America and Ers
klne's advocacy of the freedom of puhli
ration in England. These were the Mar
athon and Thermopylae in which the
freedom of the press was established in
the lulled Stales and (ireat Britain, and
all the powers of earth and hell will never
again be able to put on the handcuffs and
hopples of literary and political despotism.
It is notable that Thomas Jefferson, who
wrote the I tei-laration of American Inde-is-ndeni-e,
wrote also, "If I had to choose
between a government without newspa
pers, or newspapers without n govern
ment, I should prefer the latter." Stung
!y some base fabrication coming to us In
print, we come to write or speak of the
unbridled printing press, or, our new hook
ground up by an unjust critic, we come
to write ii sperk of the unfairness of the
printing press, or perhaps through our
..v n indistinctness of utterance we are
rcortcd a saying just the opisjsite of
what we did say, and there is a small riot
d' semicolons, hyphens and commas, and
nc come to speak or write of the hluiider
,ug printing press, nr, seeing a paper
tilled with divorce cases or social scandal,
Me speak and write of the filthy printing
'rasa. sr. sseioc a Journal through bribery.
wheel round from oue political side to
the other in one night, we speak of the
corrupt printing press, and many talk
about the lampoonery, and the empiri
cism, and the sans eulottisra of the print
ing press.
A Good Newspaper.
But I discourse now on a subject you
have never heard the immeasurable and
everlasting blessing of a good newspaper.
Thank Cod for the wheel full of eyes!
Thank God that we do not have, like the
Athenians, to go about to gather up and
relate tbe tidings of the day, since the
omnivorous newspaper does both for us.
The grandest temporal blessing that God
has given to the nineteenth century is the
newspaper. We would have better ap
preciation of this blessing if we knew the
money, the brain, the losses, the exaspera
tions, the anxieties, the wear and tear of
heartstrings involved in the production of
a good newspaper. Under the impression
that! almost anybody can make a newspa
per, scores of inexperienced capitalists ev
ery year enter the lists, and consequently
during the last few years a newspaper has
died almost every day. Tbe disease is epi
demic. Tbe larger papers swallow the
smaller ones, the whale taking down fifty
minnows at one swallow. With more than
7,0 dailies and weeklies lu the t'nited
States and Canada, there are but thirty
six a half century old. Newspapers do
not average more than five years' exist
ence. The most of them die of cholera In
fantum. It Is high time that the people
found out that the most snecessful way to
sink money and keep it sunk la to start a
newspaper. There comes a time when
almost every one is smitten with the news
paper mania and starts oue, or have stock
in one he must or die.
The course of procedure is about this:
A literary man has an agricultural or
scientific or political or religious Idea
which he wants to ventilate. He has no
money of his own literary men seldom
have but he talks of his ideas among
confidential friends until they teeome in
flamed with the idea, and forthwith they
buy type and press and rent composing
room and gather a corps of editors, and
with a prospectus that proposes to cure
everything the first copy is flung on the
attention of an admiring world. After
awhile one of the plain stockholders finds
that no great revolution has been effected
hy this daily or weekly publication; that
neither sun nor moon stand still; that the
world goes on lying and cheating and
stealing just as it did before the first
issue. The aforesaid matter-of-fact stock
holder wants to sell out his stock, but
nobody wants to buy, and other stockhold
ers get infected and sick of newspaper
iloin. and an enormous hill at the paper
factory rolls into an avalanche, and the
printers refuse to work until hack wages
are paid up, and the compositor bows to
the managing editor, and the managing
editor bows to the editor in chieL-Srtd the
editor in chief bows to the directors,
and the directors bow to the world at
large, and all the subscribers wonder why
their paper doesn't come. The world will
have to learn that a newspaper is as much
of an Institution as the Bank of England
or Yale College and is not an enterprise.
If you have the aforesaid agricultural or
scientific or religious or political idea to
ventilate, you had better charge unh the
world through the columns already estab
lished. It Is folly for any one who can
not succeed at anything else to try news
papcrdom. If yon cannot climb the hill
back of your house, it is folly to try tlio
sides of the Mutterhoru.
' Near to the People.
'I'o publish a newspaper requires the
skill, the precision, tho boldness, the vigi
lance, the strategy of a commander iu
chief. To edit a newspaper requires that
oue be a statesman, un essayist, a geogra
pher, a statistician and, in acquisition,
eiicyclnpcdine. To man, to govern, tu pro
pel a newspaper until it shall be a fixed
institution, a national fact, demands more
qualities than any business on earth. If
you feel like starting any newspaper, sec
ular or religious, understand that you are
being threatened with softening of the
brain or lunacy, and throwing your pock
ettsiok into your wile's lap start for some
insane asylum before you do something
desperate. Meanwhile as the dead news
papers week after week are carried out to
burial all the living newspapers give re
spectful obituary, telling when they were
born nnd when they died. The best print
ers' ink should give at least one stickful
of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say,
"Peace to its ashes." If It was a bad
paper, I suggest the epitaph nritten for
Francis Chartreuse: "Here enntinueth
to rot the ImwI.v of Francis Chartreuse,
who, with an Inflexible constancy and uni
formity of life, Mrsisted in the practice
of every human vice excepting prodigality
and hypocrisy. His insatiable avarice
exempted him from the first, his match
less impudence from the second." I say
this because I want you to know that a
good, healthy, long lived, entertaining
newspaper is not an easy blessing, but one
that comes to us through the tire.
First of all, newspapers make knowl
edge democratic and for the multitude.
The public library is a haymow so high
up that few can reach it, while the news
paper throws down the forage to our feet.
Public libraries are the reservoirs where
the great Hoods are stored high up and
away off. The newspais-r is the tunnel
that brings them dowu to the pitchers
of all the people. The chief use of great
libraries is to make newspapers out of.
tireat libraries make a few men and
Women very wise. Newspapers lift whole
nations Into the sunlight. Better have
M,000,000 people moderately intelligent
than 11X1,000 anions.
A false Impression Is abroad that news
paer knowledge is ephemeral because
periodicals are thrown aside, and not one
out of 10,000 people files them for future
reference. Such knowledge, so far from
being ephemeral, goes Into the very struc
ture of the destiny of churches nnd na
tions. Knowledge on the shelf is of little
worth. It is knowledge afoot, knowledge
harnessed, knowledge lu revolution,
knowledge winged, knowledge projected,
knowledge thunderbolted. So far from
being ephemeral, nearly all the beat minds
and heart have their hands on the print
ing press to-day and have had since it got
emancipated. Adams awl Hancock and
Otis used fo so to the Boston Osteite and
compose articles on me rightft of the peo
ple. Benjamin Franklin, lie Witt Clin
ton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy, were
strong in newspaperdom. Many of the
immortal things that bars been publish
ed in book form first appeared in what
you may call the ephemeral periodical.
All Macauley's essays first appeared in a
review. All Cariyle's, all Buskin's, all
Mcintosh's, all Sydney Smith's, all Hsz
litt's, all Thackeray's, all the elevated
works of fiction in our day, are reprints
from periodicals in which they appeared
as serials. Tennyson's poems, Burnt'
poems, Longfellow's poems, Emerson's
poems, Lo well's poems, Whit tier's poems,
were once fugitive pieces. You cannot
find ten literary men in Christendom with
strong minds and great hearts but are or
have been somehow connected with the
newspaper printing press. While the'
bosk will always have its place, the news
paper is more potent. Because the latter
is multitudinous do not conclude it is nec
essarily superficial. If a man should from
childhood to old age see only his Bible,
Webster's Dictionary and his newspa
per, he could be prepared for all the duties
of this life and all the happiness of the
next.
A Useful Mirror of Life.
Agalu, in a good newspaper is a useful
mirror of life as it is. It is sometimes
complained that newspapers report the
evil when they ought only to report the
good. They must report the evil as well
as the good, or how shall we know what
Is to be reformed, what guarded against,
what fought dowu? A newspaper that
pictures only the honesty and virtue of so
ciety is a misrepresentation. That fam
ily is best prepared for the duties of life'
which, knowing the evil, is taught to se
lect the good. Keep children under the
impression that all is fair and right in
the world, and when they go out into it
they will be as poorly prepared to struggle
with It as a child who Is thrown into the
middle of the Atlantic and told to learn
how to swim. Our only complaint Is when
sin is nrado attractive and morality dull,
when vice is painted with great headings,
and good deeds are put In obscure corners,
Iniquity set up iu great primer and right
eousness lu nonpareil. Hin is loathsome;
make it loathsome. Virtue is beautiful;
make it beautiful.
It would work a vast improvement if
all our papers religious, isilitieal, literary
should for the most part drop their im
personality. This would do better justice
to newspaper writers. .Many of the stron
gest and best writers of the country live
and die unknown and are denied their
Just fame. The vast public never learns
who they are. Most of them are on
comparatively small incomes, and after
awhile their hand forgets its cunning,
and they are without resources, left to
die. Why not at least have his Initial at
tached to his most important work? It
n'i'way 4tave.aihlitioiiul force to an article
when you occasionally saw added to some
significant article in the old New Y'ork
Courier and Enquirer J. W. W., or in the
Tribune II. !., or in the Herald .7. (1. B
or in the Times H. .7. B., or in the Even
ing Post W. C. It., nit iu the Evening Ex
press E. B.
Kilitorlal Professors,
Another step forward for newspaper
dom will be when iu our colleges and uni
versities we open opportunities for pre
paring candidates for the editorial chair.
We have in such institutions medical de
pnrtments, law departments. Why not
editorial departments Io the legal and
healing professions demand more culture
and careful training than the editorial or
rcportorial professions? I know men may
tumble by what seems accident into a
newspaper office as they may tumble into
other occupations, but it would be an in
calculable advantage If those promising a
newspaper life had an institution to which
they might go to learn the qualifications,
the ressinsibilitles, the trials, the tempta
tions, the dangers, the magnificent oppor
tunities, of newspaper life. Let there be
a lectureship in which there shall appear
the leading editors of the I'uited Sluti
telling the story of their struggles, their
victories, their mistakes, how they work
ed and what they found out to he the
best way of working. There will be strong
men who will climb up without such aid
into editorial power and elliciency. Ho do
men climb up to success in other branches
by sheer grit. But if we want learned
institutions to make lawyers and artists
and doctors and ministers we much more.
need learned institutions to make editors,
who occuply a position of influence a hun
dredfold greater. I do not put the truth
too stronglv when I say the must potent
influence for good on earth is a good
editor, and the most potent influence for
evil is a bad one. The best way to re
enforce and improve the newspaper is
to endow editorial professorates. When
will Princeton or Harvard nr Ynle or
Rochester lend the way?
A Christian Press,
Once more 1 remark that a good news
paper is a blessing as an evangelistic In
fluence. Y'ou know there is a great
change in our day taking place. All the
secular newspapers of the dayfor I am
not s leaking now of tbe religious news
papers all the secular newspapers of the
day discuss all tbe questions of God,
eternity and the dead, and all the ques
tions of the past, present and future.
There is not a single doctrine of theology
hut has been discussed in the last ten
years by the secular newspapers of the
country. They gather up all the news of
r II the earth bearing on religious suhjects,
and then they scatter the news abroad
again. The Christian newspaper will lie
the right wing of (he apocalyptic angel.
The cylinder of the Christianised print
ing press will be the front wheel of the
laird's chariot.
In Advance or the Age.
"Sir," lMgnn tho high-browed man
with the rolled manuscript, 'In me you
lsdiold a man who 1s In advance of the
age."
'Tea," said the editor. "You are slt
ujfl'tnrl somewhere low.g nlsjuf next
Sirm iner, I presume."
"Xoxt atimmer?"
"Yen. I nolle that you left the door
M'n."
PRETTY Princess Marie, of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
was taken to Ber
lin In 1&2, when she was Just
17, and there met tbe handsome crown
prince of Roumanla, who very quickly
recognized her charms, Frlncess Marie
was equally attracted to him, for he,
as well as being handsome, la possessed
of great charm of manner and upright
ness of character, a prince fitted In ev
ery way to be a hero of romance. The
betrothal took place not long after
their meeting with the cordial assent of
all the relatives of both priuce and
princess; and ou Jan. 11, 1803, their
marriage wag celebrated at Sigmarin-
gen. Tbe beauty and youth of Princess
Marie touched all hearts, and her win
ning manner soon made her as beloved
by King Charles as If she was actually
his own daughter. The Queen of Rou
manla Is as charmed with her new niece
as the king la. and looks on her and
treats her as a daughter, finding In her
companionship a relief from her sad
memories and fits of melancholy.
The costume worn by the Crown
Princess Marie of Roumanla, In the por
trait which accompanies this article,
was worn by her at a recent festivity
in Bucharest. The petticoat was of
plain silk, the overdress being of rich
est brocade, the design of bunches of
feathers tied together with true lovers'
knots being very dainty and effective.
The fichu of Brussels lace was draped
In exact imitation of that worn by a
dead and gone beauty In a portrait
from which the costume was copied.
Since Princess Marie's advent In
Bucharest the leaders of society there
have done their liest to deviHe novel
and brilliant entertainments to amuse
her royal highness, and she and her
handsome young husband are untiring
in attending festivities and other func
tions In aid of charities when the pres
ence of the royalty is desirefl In order
to secure the success of the undertak
ing. Now that Queen Carmeu-Sylva's
health does not permit her to exert hor-
MABIK, FUTt'ltK Qt KK.N OF JiOl'MAMA.
self, the burden of acting us her ma
jesty's representative generally falls
on Princess Marie's shoulders.
Nourishment for the Skin.
A dry, scaly skin is a sure indication
of u blood disturbiincc, and frequently
accompanies dyspepsia. The best treat
ment for It Is n careful diet, nn avoid
ance of till highly seasoned food, coffee,
leu and alcoholic stimulants. Some
times u dry skin Is the result of a long
illness where fever has literally burned
tho cuticle so that It is parchment. The
skin food which nourishes and builds
up the skin tissues and supplies the oils
. h it t have been exhausted by heat Is
most efficacious if applied at night, af
ler a warm bath. It Is well to rub It
thoroughly Into the skin. Massage is
excellent In connection with this treat
ment. Melt in a water bath three
ounces of spermaceti, eight ounces of
oil of almonds, four of hi midline, and
I wo ounces of coconuut oil. Stir briskly
until cold; then add, drop by drop, one
ounce of orange-flower water and ten
drops of oil of jasmin. Keep sealed,
except when using.
Timel and Untimely Calls.
The only objection to having a recep
tion day engraved on your cards Is that
sometimes, as the Irishman said, it was
inolghty (inconvenient." "It Is the un
expected that always happens." For
tunate the lady who has grown-up
daughters or an unmarried sister who
i a ii 11 1 1 her place temporarily. It re
quires more unselfishness than most of
us possess to give up one day every
week lo the claims of oclely; so we
only have the name on our cards and
go on your after year missing friends
we long to see, and being "at home" to
numerous acquaintances whom wc
wish bud not been quits so fortunate
In timing their calls.
Monoaram Fans for Ynnsg Women.
Soul nnd monogram fans are a notion
of the moment among young women
Ml III ill their teens. A flaln white or
dellcntely tinted fan Is selected, and
the gay seals are arranged npon It with
what laste may be. If monograms are
hoarded, it is these that decorate in
stead of the wax Impressions. A "trip"
fan means the record of a winter Jour
ney, and it holds on Its sticks the pretty
imprints with which all Arst-cUea ho
tels now stamp their stationery. If a
European trip has been undertaken,
so much the better, as that insures
steamship and other effective insignia..
Sweater for Women.
For a long time girls, and eren wo
men, have felt that they would be hap
pier If they could wear sweaters. It
was tried by some adventurous spirits,
and while found perfectly satisfactory
aliout the throat lacked the symmetry
women have learned to pruse about the
waist. This bad led to the manufacture
of women's sweaters. These lack that
THE FEMINISE SWEATER.
style which made the manly sweater
so desirable in women's eyes. But, on
tho other band, they gather in at the
waist and are entered after a manner
more familiar to women than is the
male sweater. At first they were only
used In gymnasiums, but now they are
considered a necessary part of almost
every woman's wardrobe. The up-to-date
sweater is not only a sensible gar
ment, but an exceedingly stylish one
as well. The coining summer girl will
be devoted to the sweater. She can
wear it, when wheeling, riding, or sail
ing, and in fact, they are sure to be the
fastest friends, for there will be dozens
of times when the little knit arrange
ments will just fit the occasion.
The modernized sweater is far re
moved from awkwardness. It fits like
a glove and the sleeves are generally
the long, full bishopy sort, with a tight
webbed cuff, which clings to the arm
snugly from elbow to wrist, and over
Which 1 lie full upper part falls with
all gracefulness that fashion demands.
One can find all colors and styles in
sweaters. Sailor collars and neatly
rolled-over small ones are the kinds
most generally seen and they give a
very jatinly effect. The act of getting
Into otic of these garments looks to be
a hen rt-brea king operation, but In real
ity It is simplicity itself. They either
button on the shoulder or lace in front,
and It; is no more trouble to get Into
one of them than an ordinary waist.
Novel Matrimonial Bureau.
It is reported that the ladies of the
W. C. T. I', of Portsmouth, Va., arc
alsnit to organize a unique movement
under the name of the Naples Matri
monial Society. In Naples girls 14 and
over assemble once every year in one
of the churches of that city, and the
unmarried men who so desire go there
nnd choose wives. The Portsmouth la
dies propose to work on the same prin
ciple, but both the girls and the men
must register tliree months before
making choice, iu order that Investiga
tion of character may be made,
Heautiea of Olden Days.
Sappho Is said by the Creek writers
to havo been a blonde.
Jezebel, the Quceu of A hub, according
to one of the rabbis, bad "black ryes
that were set on fire by hell."
The Empress Anna of Russia was
very portly and the fleshiness of her
face greatly detracted from Its good
looks.
Margaret of AuJou had the typical
face of a French beauty. 8he was
black-haired, black-eyed and vivacious.
Her features were Indicative of her
strength of charncter.
Pocahontas Is described as having
features as regular as those of a Euro
pean woman. She Is also said to have
had a lighter complexion than usual
among Indian women,
Theodora, the wife of the famous Jus
tinian, was beautiful, crafty and Un
scrupulous. She la said to have been
tall, dark and with "powers of conver
sation superior lo any woman In the
empire." '
Catherine of Braganza, queen of
Charles II., was singularly gifted both
In person and In Intellect, but In spits
of ber beauty and Iter good sense she
was never able to win (he lore of her
dissolute husband.
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