Show A DIATRIBE OF THE YOUNG f WOMEN modern school education having been completed for girls now by doting mothers others lda ida who admire accomplishments which they think queer but accept as the fashions of the best society the next thing ia is to get into this wonderful good society to do this ingenuity has devised living in city hotels in winter and at w watering places in summer r perhaps me kind mammas urge thip chii their daughters to observe carefully and copy the manners of the fine ladies they see perhaps the daughters exert their tact in doing it themselves A lady friend from the country came to town last week and told a near friend of ours that she had tried to get a corset made but was jold told that it could not be done u undergo n d e T aft 0 weeks because all hands in the larze large establishments she visited were engaged in calves for ladies who wear the tilting hoops on last sunday walking home from church through fashionable streets we noticed women walking with tilting skirts from where they had been pr pretending to say their prayers and on all the corners and hotel fronts we saw rows of well dressed blackguards black guards standing observing and laughing and commenting on what these women were exhibiting out on this indecency that would disgrace honest pagans let lot every modest woman who has been tricked into getting these traps of the harlot as at the latest fashion fashion 1 pull them off and burn them let every parent see to it that his guileless daughter is not disgraced by following this ti fashion let masters of households do the charity to a servant maid that has kept up with the fashion to provide her with such as are modest and forbid her while in his house to play the airs of of the waa wan toni why even in pagan times when the men abandoned themselves to the most vile practices they tried to keep the woman uncorrupt what are we coming ing to it i is s not here a guest quest guestion question fon fog of republicanism rip or imperialism it is not here a question of free tree government or despotism it is a quest loil r orthe existence of br families and society socie cy by the memories of our virtuous mothers by our love farour for our wives and daughters let us stop these public outrages and pu put under the surveillance of the police women let us llis make a remark on the latest outrage and indecency of fashion 7 A I 1 few weeks ago on a muddy day we saw walking some ways before us A a bitable object inthe in the distance it resembled a poor german peasant woman with her short petticoat coming somewhat below the knee there is nothing immodest in that peasant dress the german peasant walks with her ankles exposed but out there is no illusory pretense of covering them the poor creature we saw seemed to be such an one with a huge clothes line strung around her frame on which she seemed seemed to be carrying various gewgaw dresses for different people she seemed to be the humble errand girl of some dressmakers establishment on passing the unhappy creature we noticed that she was sailing along with the idea that the dresses hanging around her were her own and she looked as modest and unconcerned as if she were decently covered speaking of it to those more augait in such matters we found that such kind of dress is a alt all 11 the rage for some time past it is effected fec tel tei on purpose by having hoops made with a sharp and stiff curve at the foot fogt that will tilt the dress above and expose the legs to ta the fhe knee an other progress I 1 keeps tace lace pace with it it hasben has hns been told in the daily papers but we rarely believe anything we see in them A very truthful woman however etar living says these are the fine ladies ladles who display their rich brocaded brocades bro cades an and dt jewelry and gaudy dresses on the streets an ana anu in public conveyances and at hotel tables so harlots are setting the them fashion of dress and behavior for the daughters of this people it seems it is enough to say it is the fashion to make ita it iba a plea pica for follo oneff one of the latest fashions has been to have flanning elan flan cing eing soirees at Delmonico coain 14 in fourteenth street sf for or young people A rule ruie of this fashion is that no parents or guardians are to be admitted we ve dl did not nob believe the statement when it was first made in some sone of our city papers 1 boutwe but bub we have it now on good authority tho rity that thab it was true that this past winter winte 1 rf fathers athers and mothers have per daughters daug liters to go to these soirees with young menito benito men to sup and dance and to come home with them at three a and hud four in the morning just put in plain language young girls in this city do not find a blot biot on their characters to go with young men unac compa compau companied companies nied led by their parents to a pub lie lic tavern to dance and eat and drink with them and to come home with them towards daylight we weare bre ahre not the least in the world astonished toni shed to hear that in what must be irony are called the better classes of society that do not draw sharp lines of intercourse non with this whole world of in decencies and with all ail that tolerate them that so foolish a thing as marriage is ever eyer dreamed of among some people it is not surprising that the number of divorces should exceed the number of marriages from the new york freemanb freemans Fre emans journal tim THE duice DUKE OP or devan DEVON SHIRES viREs hires possessions some idea of an english dukes estate estate may be had when vre tte state that the country establishment of the duke of devonshire would occupy one of our large counties the park immediately surrounding the place contains acres the principal garden for vegetables fruits greenhouses green houses etc is acres there are thirty greenhouses each from fifty to seventy five feet long three or four of these contain nothing but pineapples pine apples others contain nothing but melons and cucumbers one peachtree peach tree on the glass wall measures fifty one feet in width fifteen feet in hight and and aud bears 1060 logo peaches it esthe is the largest in the world ria rib houses five or six in all are feet long but what shall be sald said of the great conservatories conserva tories filled with every variety of the trop tropical c plants it is one of the wonders of the world if it covers an acre of ground is one hundred feet high of oval shape and cost it is heated by steam and hot water pipes which in all are six miles in length the apparatus consumes six hundred tous toul of coad coal eoal in a year selections FOR FOB A NEWSPAPER most people think the selections of matter for a newspaper is is the easiest part of the business how great an error to look over andover over hundreds of exchange papers every day from which to select enough for one especially when it is not what shall but what shall not reselect be selected if every evers p person lerson who reads a paper could have edited it we would hear less complaints every subscriber takes tates a paper for his own benefit and if there is nothing in it that suits him it must be stopped it is good for nothing just as many subscribers as an editor may hav has e so many tastes he hasto has to consult one wants something sound one wants anecdotes fun and frolic and the next one donars wonders why a man of good sense will put such stuff in hs his paper somei thing spicy comes out and the editor is a blackguard next something argumentative menta tive and the editor is a dull apol fool and so between them all you see the poor fellow gets roughly handled they never think what does not please them pleases the next man but they insist if the paper does not please them that it is good for nothing ONE WAY TO TELL A traveler called lately at ni nightfall pitfall at a farmers house at albany the owner being from home and the mother and daughter being bing i alone they refused to lodge the wayfarer how barthen far fan then said he is it to a house where a preacher can get lodging 1 oh goh if you are a preacher said the lady you can stop here Accordingly he dismounted deposited his saddlebags in the house and led his horse to the stable meantime the mother and daughter were ile jle bating debating the point as to what kind of a preacher he was milre he cannot be a presbyterian 71 said one fon for he is not dressed well wel lenough enough 11 he is not a methodist said the other for his coat is not the right cut for a methodist if I 1 could fould findeis nind find hib his lili hymn book said the daughter 1 I could soon tell what sort of a preechar pre achar he is 11 and with that she thrust her hand into the saddlebags and pulling out a flask of liduor liquor she exclaimed la mother hes a hard shell sheli baptist Gyr gyp GYPSIES siEs IN massachusetts A b and band of gyp gypsies sies consisting of about a h hundred uri dreu dred nave have settled on the dividing I 1 line ine between east cambridge and somerville near boston they came from canada about six months ago the band I 1 is regularly organized and govern ed by a queen who was appointed some two years since for a term of seven years A A being asked chatis NA Wh at atis Is the chief en d of man replied the end got the head on KELSO ABBEY this abbey one of the many ecclesiastical structures erected bv by that I 1 star to the croon I 1 1 david I of scotland about 1130 has been lately manifesting symptoms oi of yielding to the fell destro destroyer yer time after bea bearing ring I 1 up proudly against the storms of more mom than seven centuries built of a less enduring stone and displaying little of that exquisite chisel ling of sculpture and beauty of architecture that has rendered its sister edifice of st mary at melrose welrose so well known and attractive the portion that still remains of it shows that in its earlier days it must have presented a more aerial and majestic appearance than st marys A number of incon grous erections surrounding the tife abbey were swept away in 1805 by william duke of roxburghe and the ruins were repaired in 1816 by duke james the father of the present grace previous to that time the abbey like similar buildings in many other places served as a species of quarry to house builders and there is scarcely an old existing house in kelso but has several of the abbey stones built in its walls in 1823 under the directions of mr gillespie architect edinburg and at an expense of about the whole building was thoroughly overhauled and repaired while it and its adjacent cloisters were enclosed by a low coping and a neat iron railing which now separates it from the roadway on the north and from the area or playground in front of the present grammer school on the east the north arch has for some time appeared twisted and a large crack has been noticed there as well as in some other parts of the edifice workmen m en have been accordingly accordingly busy during the last few days un under er the supervision of mr Bl acklie master of works to the duke of roxburghe rox Box burghe erecting a scaffolding a work itself which has involved a vast amount of labor and difficulty and this is now raised within one of the towers tinkers to the height of about 90 feet for the purpose of using means to strengthen the walls these are in some places to be clasped with iron hoops and riveted to the adjoining parts with rods and bars odthe of the same material and it is to be hoped that these improvements to he be effected on the old structure will enable it to bid defiance to the ele ments meats for man many a long iong winter yet to come comel scotsman CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD the dutch flat inquirer thus speaks of the progress of this work 1 the iron is being laid down at the rate of a half ifield per perda porda yand dagand we have implicit faith that the cars will reach this place on or before the day designated by the company to wit of f may the forces above this place have havo received large reinforcements the past month and the work is being pushed forward with greater rapidity than at any other time in th the e history of the enterprise |