The Lebanon express., November 10, 1893, Image 7

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A TOURISTS' CLUB.
A Literary and Conversation Society of
Young Women That In Alive.
The Tourists of Price Hill, Oincin.
lati a successful travel club of several
yean' atnndiug has recently joined the
general federation. The club idea was
brought to Price Hill from "The
Tourists" of Cedar Rapids, la., by Mine
Julia Burnet (Mrs. Clarence A. Turrell),
who, with Miss Nellie Moore (Mrs. Asa
Btuhnell Morgan), organized a new club
in October, 1884. npon the same general
plan.
After going about Europe In true
tourist style for two years, the Tourist
settled down for year in Germany,
studying music, literature and art. The
fourth year they gave to a more thor
ough enjoyment or Italy and England.
Then patriotism led them, tired of exile,
to devou- two years to their own coun
try. And during this time they also
visited Canada, made the faxhionable
trip to Alaska and hud a very satisfac
tory glimpse of Mexico. The past sea
son found them delighted with their
well planned tour through South Amer
ica. . The Tourists meet from 8 to ft o'clock
very other Tuesday, from October to
June. The usual afternoon programme
calls for quotations in response to roll
call, one or two papers, a reading or
recitation, musical interludes, and ends
with a half hour's conversation on a
given topic under a named leader.
Having followed the plan of rotation
in office for seven years, the Tourist
have proved it an excellent cue. keeping
up the interest and bringing out the
latent tuleuta of each individual mem
ber, The newly priuted programme greets
the members lit the lirst regular meet
ing each fall always on the tirst Tues
day in October. The programme is
prepared during the three mouths of the
summer recess, by a committee of three
members upiioiuted by the new execu
tive committee after the annual election
in May. The programme committee,
aotiug with the president, has full
power to map out the route aud assign
' the work. The work on this committee
la considered the most difficult and im
portant that call be given a member;
but each in turn has declared herself
well repaid for her labor by the thor
ough knowledge of interesting countries
gained in the uocessarily studious prepa
ration. Some account of one of the Tourists'
half hour conversations may perhaps in
terest those wbowouldliketo make such
a feature a part of their own club pro
grammes. "Myths and Folk Lure of the
Amazonian Indians" proved one of the
moat entertaining topics of their reoent
tour through South America. After giv
ing an introductory explanation of the
object, the leader. Miss Kate Leslie
Moore, called upon members of the club
for tules and legends current among
these Indiana, The myths, as was con
clusively proved, have their variants
among the negroes of our southern Btates,
as well as among the Kaffirs aud Hotten
tots of southern Africa. The members
of the club hiid received an intimation
that they were to be called upon for cer
tain work and were found well prepared.
Among the Tourists it is considered a
more difficult task to lead a conversation
than to write a paper. It is necessary to
be prepared at all points, for the member
depended upon for an especially impor
tant part may disappoint one. She may
perhaps bring a surap of paper bristjing
with uninteresting statistics, which she
calmly proceeds to read, or, having
learned the little article privately be
stowed upuu her by heart, nervously
makes of it a parrotlike recitation. It
requires a great deal of tact and consid
erable practice before the one eudeavor
ing to lead can successfully overcome the
deadening effects of such additions to the
conversation. Realizing what splendid
drill these hulf hour conversations are,
thsTouriatoatrive bravely after the ideal
extemporaneous speech. When occa
sionally the conversation degenerates
into a series of little readings aud the
failure from their ideal conversation
dampens their ardor and hurts their pride
the Tourists ulways find that it is because
a multiplicity of other interests has pre
vented them from taking time for proper
preparation. This iB essential to even the
smallest success. Cor. Homemaker.
A leap Tear Proposition.
As leap year is upon ns the moment
ous question. Shall women propose? con
front us in various newspaper columns,
with Its usual four yearly regularity.
Conservative people will of course
pooh pooh the idea, and the more frivo
lous laugh at the same. Borne of our
radical, would be social Innovators will
be advocates, and others will fulminate
their varied denunciations.
Considered in the abstract we do not
tee why a woman should not express her
natural preferences as freely as a man
In regard to the opposite sex. Indeed,
she seems to be free to do so in every
I other respect but that of love and mar
riage. And yet is not this the moat im
portant of all earthly relations to the
i human race as society is at present or-
I suited?
Mere reasoning aside, however, other
considerations enter into our estimates
of propriety. Here we have sentiment,
which so largely makes up the sum of
womanly opinions on most -ubjocts out
side of bread and breathing
As the majority of people think now,
and as they will probabh .ontinue to
think for many years to cmue. there are
certain moral and social questions
wherein old time precedent will doubt
less continue to rule! The realm of
courtship and marriage still lies fully
within these prescribed limits.
In this affair it has from time imme
morial been her inalienable and alto
gether charming privilege to be the one
who should be sought, wooed and won.
Whether this be abstractly right or
wrong it is so Ingrained in the very
nature of society at large that the iso
lated kicks which are here and there
made have so far produced little or no
effect. Yankee Blade.
Money That Patti Has Earned.
That marvelous little diva, Adelina
Patti. is with ns again. When 1 saw
her last time she had charming Titian
hair hair in which there was a sugges
tion of autumnal sunset Now they tell
me her hair is as dark as a raven's wing.
What a pretty and gifted woman Patti
1b! And to think of the money which
she has honestly earned with her sweet
voicel Not less than ip.lXKI.UOU. 1 should
say, including douceurs from the czar of
Russia and the kings and potentates of
Europe. Her Craig-y-Noa castle is a
royal palace. Of all the women that
have come and gone npon this earth not
one has ever earned so much money as
Adelina Patti. the daughter of a wan
dering Itulian minstrel. (Jjneens and
favorites have been richer tliau she. but
the wealth was not of their getting.
When I last saw Patti it was in the
Hoffman House last year. 1 called by
invitation. She had been suffering from
a cold and had not been singing for
nearly a week. She was gracious and
affable and vivacious, but in the midBt
of tbe chatter which had lasted for a
half hour her devoted husband, Nioo
luil. interposed, and informed her that
nnder the direction of her physicians
she was to take her evening draft and
retire. Shenlieyed like a dutiful child.
"Yon see." she said. "I am a slave to my
throat and my doctor." New York Cor.
Brooklyn Times
Woman nuirrnge In This Country.
In the United States, where the com
munal system never existed except in
some of its remote, modified forms, mu
nicipal snffrtige for women has come
slowly In only two state. Wyoming
and Kansas, are women admitted to the
franchise aud made eligible to municipal
office generally although in fifteen
stutes they may vote in the school elec
tions Several states have granted to
women simply the right of being elected
to school offices, provided always that
tbey poHsess the qualifications prescribed
for meu.
The question is thus decided in Cali
fornia. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Louisiana,
Maine. Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
At the preseut time the system of grant
ing to women both rights, eligibility and
suffrage in school matters has been
adopted in the following states besides
Massachusetts. Colorado, North and
South Dakota. Idaho, Michigan, Minne
sota. Montana. New Hampshire. New
Jersey. New York, Oregon. Vermont,
Washington and Wisconsin, and tbe ter
ritory of Arizona.
Of course to this list must be added
Wyoming, where women vote at all
elections, aud Kausos. where they possess
oomplete Juc4,iffriige. Finally, Ken
tucky and Nebraska admit women only
to tbe school franchise, and that under
special conditions. Boston Common
wealth. To Help Wumen la tbe Country.
A Michigan woman, much interested
in the fresh air work, suggests that city
women engaged in this work should in
vite the country mothers who have en
tertained children at their homes to visit
in tbe city homes a few days in the win
ter. These farmers' wives, who take in
the city waifs at a time when summer
work presses hardest and summer heat
is most oppressive, need a change of
scene almost as much as do the mothers
and children iu the tenements, and for
lock of change and rest it is said that
furmera' wives form a large per cent, of
the inmates of insane asylums. It is not
the hard work, but want of companion
ship, the isoiot-l'S. from books, music,
lectures, the theater, the desolation of
Intellectual starvation.
In some of the western towns a move
ment is on foot to establish clubs among
the country women, where it 1b believed
a higher mental development is possible
thau in the city, because no other form
of recreatiou will distract attention.
The plan is to divide each oounty into
sections and organize a woman's club in
each section. These country clubs will
co-operate with those in the cities for
the interchange of ideas and the forming
of friendships mutually beneficial. New
York Sun. ,
Emancipated from Boarding Houses,
Some young women of this city have
tried a new experiment in housekeeping
with eminent success, and there is no
reason why other young women who are
earning their own livelihood should not
follow their example with great benefit
to themselves. The ladies had been board
ing, and they agreed that this sort of life
was unsatisfactory, The monotony of
boarding house life became unendurable.
They resolved to break loose and estab
lish a "menage of their own." A nios
house was obtained in one of the most
"eligible" street of the city.
The servant was an immigrant, for it
was part of the experiment to instruct
their help in their own way. The ladies
take turns iu ordering the next day's (Un
der in certain understood limits, so that
the longings of each Individual for beef
steak and onions, corned beef and cab
bage, or beef a la mode, or any other spe
cial dish oonld be gratified. They also
take turns in the management of tbe
house. Tbey live in entire harmony;
they are at peace with the cook; they
have ample time to attend to their sever
al vocations and for occasional amuse
ments, and they save enough from their
former board expenses to pay for their
summer holidays. Albany Journal.
American Girls and Their Voices,
Mme. Fursch-Madi, a woman of many
talents, chief of which is a pure soprano
voice, has settled down in this city and
taken charge of the vocal department of
one of the city colleges.
"Voice culture," she said to me the
other day, "is difficult work. There is
no reason why America should not pro
duce some really great singers. There
are many grand voices in America, but
American girls do not seem to care to
become great singers. Tbey do not like
to study.
"If a girl is blessed by nature with a
voice, she must study hard to cultivate
it, not study spasmodically, but go at it
with determination and keep at it Of
course she should begin right There is
a nght way and a wrong way to begin,
and it does seem to me often that some
of our girls have poor advisers and poorer
teachers. A new method? Oh, dear
me, no. There is only one method, and
that is first a voice, and second, proper
cultivation and study. All the great
singer of the world know this to be
true. It is the only way to succeed."
Faster Coatee in New York Mail and
Express.
Pretty Favors.
Some pretty favors that may be mode
at home for a dinner, dance or luncheon
have as their foundation the Bat circu
lar boxes used by confectioners. The
boxes should not be more than an inch
or an inch and a half high. Their cir
cumference is a matter of taste, though
a box of about twelve inches is perhaps
the best Make as many bags of surah
or China silk, in bright colors, as yon
have boxes, and leave the bags open
across the bottom. Sew the bottom of
the bag around the boi on the outside,
and over the stitches put a band of satin
ribbon tbe width of the rim of the box.
Turn the top of the bag in a hem suffi
ciently wide to allow of a Bhirring string.
Sometimes the band of ribbon around
the box is powdered with tiny painted
flowers. If for a color luncheon, these
bags should be of one color. If for
cotillon favors, rainbow hues have the
best effect Oue box can be used for
two bags, as both the bottom aud the
cover are of the same size. New York
Post.
Terms Tliiit Seem High.
1 notice in the newspapers the very in
teresting advertisement of a lady who
"has carefully studied the best existing
authorities" npon the subject of Eng
lish pronunciation, "and is able to cor
rect mispronounced words that are fre
quently beard in pulpit, lecture room,
theater or in daily conversation."
Her terms are iflOU a mouth, which is
not too high if she has mastered the sub
ject. 1 suppose that an instructress in
pronunciation must get her main client
age from ladies whose vocation at the
wahtubin early life prevented them from
having that command of English or
thoepy which seemB desirable to them,
now that their husbands have got rich.
There must be plenty of such pupils to
be had. but the task of instructing them
must be a little difficult Moreover, the
subject of English pronunciation is so
vast aud difficult that it must be almost
as hard to teach as to learn. New York
Truth.
Choosing Rani,
Choose freshly cured hams. Formerly
the year's supply was packed in the win
ter, and after smoking must needs be
canvased to preserve it against the rav
ages of flies, and in this shape carried to
meet the demand through the summer
and fall. This necessarily resulted in a
considerable loss of the juices of the
meat by evaporation, while the surface
of the flesh gradually became densely
covered with mildew, which often gave
a inotdly flavor to the entire ham. This
has now been entirely obviated by such
improvements in curing by ice that hams
of the very finest quality are prepared
even in the hottest weather. New York
Grocer.
All Married Within rive Tears.
Five years ago a chapter of ten King's
Daughters, consisting of eight confirmed
spinsters, one girl of sixteen, and a
heartbroken widow, all vowed to deny
any aspiration toward matrimonial joys
or hazards, and give their lives over to
the doing of good works. The widow
married within six months, the spinsters
followed her example in rapid succes
sion, and only a month ago nine hap
pily married women attended the wed
ding of the youngest member of the or
ganization. Good Housekeeping.
How Wheat Came to Earth.
Aelassio account of the distribution of
wheat over the primeval world shows that
Ceres, having taught her favorite, Triptol
emns, the art of agriculture and the sci
ence of breadmaking, gave him her chariot
a celestial vehicle, and that in it he traveled
night and day, distributing this valuable
brtad grain among all nations of the earth.
SHE MUST MARRY THE JUDGE.
A llnmnrknhle Method of ChooHlng a
Wife hy Msklng Her Apply fur Office.
Among the many remarkable propo
sals of marriage which have been pub
lished from time to time in the news
papers, tbe most unique is the follow
ing, which appears in our advertising
columns:
Wanted-A yonnir lady for clerk of tliecoanty
court of Blhert county. It will be necessary
for her to marry tlie cotinty Judge. Address
County Judge, Klberton, Go.
Coming as It does in the dawn of leap
year, this advertisement by Judge J. A.
Roebuck has special force and signifi
cance. Application for the position of
clerk under the terms of the above ad
vertisement would be equivalent, of
course, to a proposal of marriage to
Judge Roebuck. This, in any other
year, might not be considered just the
proper thing for a young lady to do, but
in leap year who shall question her
right to such a course?
But see the cleverness of the judge.
By simply mustering np the audacity to
announce in the advertising columns of
the two leading papers in Georgia that
he is anxious for a wife, which is an
entirely praiseworthy aspiration, and
which is the plain English of his clever
advertisement, he has at a single bound
left the embarrassing position of suitor
and taken the vantage ground of the one
to be wooed.
And see, too. the easy avenue of escape
from nndesirable applicants which is
left to him and the embarrassment
which is saved the young ladies. While
it might be a trying ordeal for a young
lady to propose marriage even to the
man she loves, in this day of female
stenographers, typewriters and book
keepers there need be no embarrassment
on a lady's part in applying for any re
spectable clerkship. Therefore, when a
young lady has become acquainted with
Judge Roebuck, of the Elbert county
court, and feels that ahe is willing to
ahare tbe honora and emoluments of his
office, she hoe only to apply for the posi
tion of clerk in his court
If the judge fancies the applicant the
bargain can be closed at once, and the
clerk's salary remains in the family. If,
on the contrary, the applicant would
not be acceptable as Mrs, Roebuck,
the judge has only to represent the
duties of the office as being such that
she could not fill them, and regret that
he cannot give her the position. Both
parties thus escape all reference to the
embarrassing part of the business. In
the language of the sporting gentry, the
judge is "on velvet."
Girls, the cose is before you. Augusta
(Ga.) Chronicle.
Co-operation in Euglleh Housekeeping.
The English housekeeper, without in
tending to do so, has really taken two
long steps in the direction of co-operative
housekeeping. For in most small
establishments, where perhaps only
three or four servants are kept, no
breadmaking is done at home and the
washing is all put out The bread pur
chased is not, however, what is tech
nically known to us as "bakers' bread."
The huge loaves ore firm and light, and
similar in grain to what the best home
cook could produce. The various kinds
of hot bread dear to an American's
heart are neither desired nor found on
an Englishman's table, and although
an American housekeeper might con
sider it bad management to buy her
bread, to the English housekeeper the
plan seems the best in the world.
As the English housekeeper is nothing
if not thrifty, without further discussion
it may be taken for granted that co
operation between her and the baker
must mean a saving of pocket for her,
as well as a simplifying of her household
arrangements. In the same way, the
fact that no washing is done at home,
means a saving both of fuel and of fric
tion in the kitchen. Furthermore, no
unsightly lines with their burden of
clothes ever disfigure the back yard of an
English house. The yard is instead a
thing of beauty, with its central grass
plot, its little flagged walk, and with its
bushes and vines neatly trained against
the surrounding walls. Cor Home
maker. Better Left Unsaid.
A certain young poet is equally fa
mous in the world of letters as an au
thor and among his friends for his blunt
candor that is forever betraying him
into one of the things one would have
preferred to say differently, as Du Man
lier puts it On his last birthday he was
given a charming dinner by his doting
parents, at which he was bitterly disap
pointed by the regret of several nota
bles. Thus, when a society girl said to
him at the close of the evening, "What
delightful time we have had!" he ex
claimed from the fullness of his heart:
"I'm glad it hasn't seemed dull to you.
We invited some awfully clever people,
but not one of them camel" Philadel
phia Press.
Pensions For Worklngmen In Austria,
Under the provisions of the Austrian
poor law, at CO years of age a man may
claim from his native town or commune
a pension equal to one-third of the daily
wages which he hod received during hii
working years, The amount varies from
i to 8 florins a month. In Vienna alone
there are 16,000 persona who receive these
pensions from the city.
She Had Been There.
Perdita You haven't the faintest idea
how much I love him.
Penelope Oh, yes I have I used to
love him that way myself. Brooklyn
Lit.
Still In the Swim.
A lean, wiry old fellow from the country
walked into the log cabin on the wooded
Island in Jackson park the other morning,
pushed bis hut bock on his head and In
spected the interior with evident enjoy
ment. "This looks tike old times," he sold, turn
ing to two young men standing near him.
"Seen this kind of thing before, have
you ?" observed one of them.
"Seen it before? Well, I reckon! Why,
I was brought up in a settlement when
there wasn't half of the houses as good s
this one. I know all about this style of
llvin from the word go. And I used to have
just about as good a time as the boys have
now too."
"I don't know about that uncle." said the
other of the two young men. "You're not.
up to all the fun the boys have nowadays.
Trouble with you Is you're not In the pro
cession any more. You've dropped out,
you know, just as the band is beginning to
play."
"Dropped out have V exclaimed the
old man. "Dropped out hey?" he snort
ed, runuing his hand into hi pocket and
bringing it out again full of gold and silver
coins. "Back number, am If Look here,
young fellow! Do you want to bet a few
dollars'I can't outrun you? Have you got
a ten or twenty toputupthatl can't throw
either of you down ? Can you turn a hand
spring and 'light on your feet stiff legged?
Bet you $50 1 can do it! Bet you tlOO you
can't! Want to try me on hop, step and
jump? Bet you hold on!"
A crowd had begun to gather, and the
two young men were edging away from
him.
"I'll go you five to one I can jump far
ther in two jumps than you can in three!
I'll ride a mule race with either of you
don't be in a hurryl I'll chin a horizon
tal bar 40 times to your 10, aud I'll bet
money 1 can well, go, then, gotdarn you,
and don't you ever pick up an old man
from Hancock countyforagreenhorn again
as long as you live!"
As he shouted this after the young men,
who were making their way rapidly but
unostentatiously toward the nearest bridge,
the indignant old patriarch from Hancock
county put his money back Into his pocket,
pulled his chin whiskers nervously and
moved on In the direction of the Japanese
building at the north end of the island.
Chicago Tribune. .
His Excuse.
Among the early lawyers of Missouri
were Judge James C and General John
C , brothers, both excellent lawyersand
splendid advocates. General John, when
occasion required, closed his argument to
the jury bathed in tears himself, with most
of tbe jury and audience weeping too.
One day he and Judge James were trying
a case, James prosecuting and John de
tending James made his speech, a strong
one for his side of the case, and ended with
telling the jury.
"Gentlemen, my brother John will ad
dress you on the other side of the case, and
I want to caution you, he will cry and try
to make you cry. He does it in all his
cases." ,
General John then spoke to the jury,
making one of tbe very best of hiB pathetie
appeals, causing jury and audience to for
get James admonition, and as teats were
flowing John, with great drops rolling
down his cheeks, Baid to the jury:
"My brother Jim told you I would ary.
I am crying, and, gentleman of the jury, If
you had such a d d mean brother as
Jim, you would cry tea"
John's client was acquitted. Green Bag,
Bow Be Pnt It.
Colonel John Hay happened to be In
Chicago at the time of the great fire.
Shortly afterward, as tbe story goes, while
seated in the parlor of a hotel he noticed
two persons whispering and glancing at
him.
Presently one of them crossed the room
and said:
"Are you Mr. Hay?"
"Yes," replied the colonel
"You wrote 'Little Breeches,' didn't1
you?" was the next inquiry.
"Yes," responded tbe poet
Upon that the man returned to the place
where his friend stood, and bringing him
back presented bim solemnly to Colonel
Hay as "Mr. McKalgins," Colonel Hay
received tbe newcomer politely, though he
had never seen or heard of him before.
After a short pause the first man said in
an impressive manner.
"Mr. Hay, shall ws soon have the pleas
ure of seeing the great Are embalmed Is
verse?" Youth's Companion.
Licked Into Fits.
"1 can tell you something that you
haven't got," said a German to an Ameri
can. "We have built a church bo long thak
It takes half an hour to walk from the
porch to tbe pulpit"
"That is nothing!" replied the Yankee,
"We have a church where a little boy is
carried to bis baptism through the east
porch and at the west porch he walks out
as a minister with his secoud wifa" Aus
land. "Passing the nutter."
A Matter of Pride.
Small Boy I wanter take gas.
Dentist It is not usual to administer
gas for a milk tooth, my boy. It won't
hurt but an instant
"You've gotter gimme gas or I won't
have it pulled."
"You shouldn't be so afraid of being
hurt. Now sit up here like a little man."
"I ain't 'fraid of bein hurt 'Taint that
I'm afraid I can't help givin a screech
when it comes out" '
"That won't matter."
"Yes it will too. All th' boys wot I've
ever licked is waltin under th1 winder I
hear me holler." Good News,
i
-tils,