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Show Western society as described by E. "VN. Howe in the Forum: There is a social .equality in Western towns that prevails nowhere else, says the writer, and the daughters of the blackfmilh are quite as prominent as the daughters' of the banker, providing they behave as well, which they are likely to do, as they all grow up together and are educated in the same schoold. The only social test in the West is good conduct. I once lived in a town where It was always said, after a big party, that the line was drawn only at color. . The Western West-ern married man has no standing in society only by his wife's side. The men who "run" the towns are seldom seen at the parties, which are manazed by their unmarried clerks. In the old courtly days a man and wife had a social individuality; but when a man attends a social gaiherin? in the West, he is expected to seat himself beside j his wile and behave as well as he can, to the end that people may understand that he is not only fond of the worthy woman at home but in company as well. If a married man should attend a Western social affair without with-out his wife, he would be very apt to be approached ap-proached by a married woman, who would ask him in an audible whisper, "Where is your wife?" and there would be a certain something in the woman's tone indicating in-dicating that he ought to be ashamed of himself for boing there under such circumstances. circum-stances. I once knew a guy young husband Cover With Flos. A clever writer in the London Truth gives the following account of a eomewhat lively adventure: In a railway carriage the other day I noticed that a girl had fastened her little black serge coat to each side of her starched pink shirt by means of black-headed black-headed pins some inches long. These, with points plainly visible, taken in conjunction with two or three longer pins thrnst through her boating hat, and aggressively apparent at the business end, led mo to conclude that the wearer would be a very undesirable neighbor in case of a railway accl. dent, 60 I promptly changed my seat and soon forgot all about her and her pins. After a station or two, I was roused from my newspaper by a vivid scream, and beheld a lady with troubled countenance holding her handkerchief to her temples. In a lurch of the train, one of the hat pins had given her a long scratch jut above the eye. The conversation con-versation that ensued was of the livliest description. de-scription. The owner of the pins would not utter the soft word that turneth away wrath. "Every one wears hat pin.," she said, "and no one was responsible for accidents of that sort" "You might have destroyed this eye," said the safferer, almost weeping from the pain of the stabbing little lit-tle scratch. "Mieht she not!" appealing ap-pealing to me. Whereupon I related fifteen hnndred accepted, this picture was accorded a place. From that time her success suc-cess was phenomenal. She painted a copy of Leon Beuonville's celebrated celebrated "Franciscan Monka." Miss CuIberUon personally per-sonally is an attractive blonde, with masses of wavy hair and expressive blue eyes. In addition to achievements in art, her literary work ia clever. Mrs. ElizabethLofgreu is a pioneer amonar the advanced women of Finland. . In she founded the Finnish Woman's anion, tfxe first incorporated organization of women in that conntry. This union has dealt wSth legral measures to improve the condition of woman, as regards property right, education, educa-tion, legalized vice, woman's wage and all economical questions of the day. She w8 president of this union up to within two years ago, when she resigned the position, but continues to be a tireless workr among the committees of the union. Also, outsidft of this, she has done, and is continually doing, good work for the advancement ad-vancement and development of her sisters. Through hor ' Influence the first women printers were . employed in her husband's, large printing establishment. Since then there are wouj'en in almost all printing houses in the country. She has in many ways ardently promoted the higher education educa-tion of girls, and for six years "has been a member of a school board. The first Finnish high school, with co-educatton leading to the university, counts her among ita founders. foun-ders. A good scholar, 6he has translated a great deal of French, English and Norwegian literature into Finnish. - . At Her Expense. Mi.s Fortied: "Dear me, how you are freckled! I should feci awful to nave my face like thatl" Miss Young: "But there is no dantrer of being freckled when one is on the shady side." She: "You plead in vain. I've sworn that I wouldn't marry the best man living." He: "Well, that just shuts me out." "My dear," said a repentant husband to his wife, "if I have ever used any unkind words to you I take them all back." "No you won't I know you. You want to use them all over again." She Mrs. Kellosg is dreadfully lonesome how I had discovered the weapons of offense, of-fense, and changed my seat in consequence. Tile fury of the girl on hearing my simple tale wds quite unbounded. I really thought she would slap me, but the train just then ran into a station, and she bounced out of the carriage with a Parthian shift: "I f hall see if I can find any ladies to travel with." Much relieved, we enjoyed a hearty lausrh at the rude child of nature, with the pins of civilization sticking out all over her. . About the Fair Sex. The United States now holds twenty-one law firms made of husbands and wives. In addition to these there are at least ISO American Amer-ican women who practice law in the courts or publish legal publications. . The "little sweetheart Rosalie" of John Howard Paine' earlier letters is now gray- to exhibit a paper signed by his wife to the effect that he was at the party alone and with her knowledge knowl-edge " and consent The men who have made the Weft and who are interesting have no social side in the strictest sense. Western society is made np of young people, peo-ple, who are always more or less uninteresting uninterest-ing except from the standpoint of good looks. A rolddie-agad man who attends a social affair in the West is looked upon as an oddity, so firmly rooted is the impression that as soon as a man marries he ought to retire from everything except business. Very few Western men possess any of the social graces, although they are noted for shrewdness in business and politics. Our idea of society is that It is an institution for bringing about marriages; after the marriages mar-riages take plkce the contracting parties are expected to retire. A WOMAN STAGE-DRIVER. She Succeeded To and Enlarged Bar Hatband's Business. A peculiarly nervous little woman, with dark auburn hair and flashing black eyes, is often registered at the Grand hotel. She is Mrs. H. J. Langdon of Lassen county, the woman stage-driver of the Sierras. But she is more than a driver of stages; she is an owner. Her stage lines extend for several hnndred miles throughout the mountains, and she owns scores of horses and vehicles, and carries the United States mail, as well as hundreds of passengers. Her husband died a few years ago, and she took hold and managed and extended the business aforesaid. Mrs. Langdon has taken many small contracts from the government gov-ernment and is well known at Washington, D. 0., which city she often has ocaasion to viait in connection with her mail contracts. Recently she had some correspondence with Postmaster-General Wanamaker hi regard to his method of awarding contracts, in which she expressed herself in a manner to attract the attention of jhe entire country. Mrs. Langdon is reported to be as good a judge of stock as any man in the stage business. busi-ness. She knows also the opportune moment mo-ment when to grease a wagon, oil a harness and generally to keep in touch with the staare business so as to make it successful. She is aid to be n excellent whip and to be able to manipulate the lines of fonr or more horses about as easily as the famous Hank Monk used to do in the old Geiger grade. Mrs. Langdon has other kinds of business to manage besides her stage lines, and, take them altogether, she leads a very active life, but she prefers it to pursuing the usual career of the every-day woman. Ex. Society ia th West. Some people seem to write simply to display dis-play their gross ignorance of the things they essay to relate. Thus no reader of The imes will recognize the following status of without her husband. He Humpii! I don't see what fault she has to find. She That ia precisely what makes her unhappy. Clerk There are two kinds of cloth to match the shade of this -sample you have, sir; one is much more expensive than the other. Have you any idea which your wile prefers? Customer Oh, yes! She wants the one that costs the most Mistress I never saw such a fearful-look. Ing kitchen. How do you manage to accumulate ac-cumulate so. many dirty dishes? Cook Sure, mum, the young leddie wae juat after showing me as how tuey roasts a potato at their cooking schools. "There is one thing I like about your hs-band; hs-band; h never hurries you when getting ready for a walk." -'Pecious little credit due brm for that, ' my dear. Whenever I see that I am not likely to be ready in time. I mmpiy hide Wa hat or his gloves out of the way, and then, let him hunt up and down till I have finrUted. dressing." A Dublin lady took a world of trouble to provide a variety of dishes and have dam all cooked with great skill for an entertain- ' ment she was to give ia honor of Dean Swift; but, from the first 'bit that wa tasted, she did not cease to undervalue the courmes and beg indulgence for the shortcoming- t the cook. "Hang it," said Swift, alter the aanoyance had gone on a little, "if everything every-thing is so bad a you say. I'll go fc.QmevavV get a herring-drewea for myself." haired Mrs. Baker, living upon a farm on the outskirts of Easthampton a quaint old place with the sound of the Atlantic ocean forever in its ears, and each "lowly thatched cottage" even the poet's home given over to summer visitors. Mrs. Baker, in her habitnal blue gown and email red shoulder shawl, with the addition of a peaked-crown straw hat, covered with fantastic bows, evidently left behind by aome departing infantile in-fantile boarder, is as picturesque a figure as if we found her upon the coast of Brittany instead of Long Island. With men in sashes and broad-brimmed sailers, and women in eanes and stiff shirts, -one is reminded this summer of Sidney Smith's friend, whom he rfked because Mr. was so ladylike and his wife was such a perfect gentleman. Mist M. E. B. Oulbertson is the young American artist whfse talents have won recognition recently in Pari, she was born in kkhmond, Ind., and Is the daughter of the late Dr. J. W. Culberteoa, the oculist During her studies abroad wtlli Amelia Rives-Cnenler sue entered Jnllen's studio and studied with such men a Le Fabvre, Bougureau and Constant. For two years she lived in the Lttn quarter,' and then painted the portrait of the celebrated daughter daugh-ter of the more celebrated Maria Monk, the escaped nun. The painting by Uu young artist is in the modern French style, and was submitted for examination at too Paris salon. Among: six- thousand- reported- and Racing oa Stilts. A new field of competition with men, says Kate Field's Washington, recently opened up by that indomitable spirit of progression characterizing women of the present, is that of stilt racing. It is unique, though after all would seem to be but lapsing tmek to first principles, since it is primarily one of the pleasures of childhood to be enjoyed regardless regard-less of sex, color or previous condition of servitude. It bids fair, however, not only to develop into an art, but in common with baseball, cricket and other games dear to the heart of the small boy, to have a fine financial finan-cial outlook. The keynote of progress pro-gress in this new line of eceupa-tion eceupa-tion has been sounded strangely enough, not by America, but France, where a race on wooden legs recently took place from Bordeaux to Biarritz and back, a distance dis-tance of 303 miles. The entries for the race were eighty-one, and when the cavalcade on stilts set off from the Hotel do la Gironde to the inspiriting music of a brass band, it was accompanied iy a party of bicyclers who were to fallow In the wake to insure the observance ob-servance of fair play. Among the racers was -a man who claimed to have traveled on stilts from Moscow to Paris. A quarter of an hour after the start had been accomplished accom-plished the band was again called npon to play for eighteen women and girls who essayed to make the run of flftj miles from Bordeaux to Cersns and back the same ay. |
