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Show VOL. IV. AMERICAN FOliK, UTAH, NATUKDAY. OCTOHEIi l(i, ABOUT YOUNG WIVES. f HE city Ilf homeless young married people la a very doleful subject to write on. They have good, though moderate Incomes, they are clever, in excellent health, active, energetic young men and women, and they have elected to live In boarding houses and hotels. Elevators carry them to upper stories of huge caravansaries.- where they take possession of a bedroom, a parlor and a dressing-rooHere they add to the rich but unmistakably hotel furniture the pretty trifles, easily transported, which were among their wedding presents, and they declare themselves content. They partake of meals, ordered from long bills of fare, cooked by foreigners, always rich and Indigestible and often of doubtful origin, and sit at little tables observing and being observed with that long, critical stare which is learned only in such surround- 7t ings. The wife has no duties; nothing In their lives exercises her skill, her brain power or her ingenuity. Her husband receives no help or delight from the labor of her hands or as the result of her good judgment. Half of her endowments are lying dormant, and almost every power she has is dulled from want of use. After her husband leaves lier for his office, she has to think out some occupation for the day. She shops and visits; if she is musical, she practices a little; If she is bookish, she goes, perhaps, to a Nothing literary class or a lecture. taxes her resources, no .one Is helped or benefited by her wise rule. Lacking that great prop and stafT. personal responsibility, she has no taste of the Joy of a personal achievement and success. There la no way in which either husband or wife can express themselves In the material things by which they are surrounded. furnished These rooms are to their personal characteristics like ready-mad- e clothing to their bodies, and betray in one way and another that they are misfits." Worse still, to my thinking, is life in smaller boarding-housewhere the independence and Isolation possible in s, hare passed, so that If yen did not chance to know that your legitimate number of square feet were known as number 499, you might readily think you were in your own quarters until you saw that wbera your wall were blue your neighbor's were pink, cannot be encouraging to the sense of individual possession which is half of lifes joy. The mere abiding under the same roof with people you dislike or despise ia trying, but when you believe that on your right hand ia drunkenness, sad on your left the elements of some great human tragedy; to doubt the decency of your nearest neighbor at dinner and be shocked at the vulgar display of the women you meet in the elevator, does not conduce to love of mankind or the elevation of your own thoughts. Why choose these ways of living when open to every woman, according to her means, lieB the door of a home? A place whlia Is, for the time at least, your very own, to be a source of comfort and peace to your husband and of joy to yourself just In proportion to your endeavors? A place where color, arrangement, every adornment, every detail, from the delicate draperies at the windows to the implements in the kitchen, expresses your tastes, your judgment, your judieious economies, your thought of others, your love for your husband. Where no one enters but at your bidding. and then comes to be made happy by your society or refreshed by your hospitality. Where, when the day is done, you realize that from the flavor of the breakfast cup of coffee and the l!glitness of the rolls to the restful chair in which he smoked his last cigar at night, the man you love best of all human beings owes every enjoyment to your oversight and planB. No matter how small it may be, no matter how many difficulties of arrangement and adaptation present themselves, these, like all obstacles, only enhance success, and in these deys of apartments and moderate houses built especially to tempt young housekeepers no one who can aflord to lire as I hare described can be too restricted in their means to find it hard to select from one of these classes of domiciles what Is suitable and pleasant. And, having chosen, can there be many pleasures more eure and satisfying than making of those vacant rooms and bare walls a home? That vital spark of vanity and without which no woman's life is really delightful, that vndefinable, unclassified quality which makes her look at her completed work with the exhilarating belief that few could excel It, here has full pley. The birds find sources of exultation in the building of their nests, and you can discover that they are by tLe joy of their songs. It is the natural instinct of love and life to make a place to dwell In. To the woman who can devise a fastidiously beautiful gown I would comment the arrangement and decoration of a room as the expansion and tenfold highur use of her art. To the woman wLn would endear herself to her husband I would olfer to guarantee that if she i f n keep within the limit of his means sad yet make for him a lovely, eomfort-ablappropriate abiding place, in which he has room for the development of his own tastes and opportunity to bring about him his friends in hospitable fashion, she will have endeared herself inexpressibly to him and increased his pride In her tenfold, l.ci the good order and beauty and for his individual comfort in sufficient to make his friends envic.,is. and ready to say that bis home tempi s them to marry, and the wife liecon es lovely in his eyes, in a far more way than because she is preity and well dressed. To become ihc rource of a husband s comfort and r:st Is to hare placed yourself beyond ihc fear of losing your complexion or ceasing to be his ideal of a pretty girl. It Is also to rise from the position of a dear pet to a usrful, important partner, without whose clever brains and wise direction bis life would cease to be a success. I do not claim that g Is easy work, nor fur a moment attempt to say that the fine art of good housekeeping is easily nttaineil, but I do say. with all the strength I can put into he assertion, that the married woman who sets aside her kingdom for lack of courage and energy to rule it Is but a disinherited princess who has lost the greatest joy of life when she abdicated her throne. The plare a men lives in should surely be the plare wherein sorrow and Illness and death cm best b borne and suffered. To the very young these three pregnant words mean little, but when they make themselves heard, you well-chos- en un houae-fm-nishi- X A LIFE OF LUXURIOUS INDO LENCE. Is hotels large lost, and the elements of criticism and gossip find such congenial soil in which to lodge their seeds. I know no sadder words than homeless and childless! There is a mournful inflection in their very sounds, and yet these prettily dressed, eager, restless young women are both these sorrowful things. If God has denied them the cruwn of motherhood, it would be better to take some motherless baby to 'heir hearts than to live all their lives without the guiding hand of a little child in theirs and the clasp of little loving arms about their necks. I bay guiding, with very sincere faith that there is no surh attracthe dependtion toward v noble life ence and love of childhood, nor any such rebuke as the surprise or fear In a child's innocent eyes. Whn causes a deliberate choice of this narrow life which entails so many to deprivations is incomprehensible me. The semblance of great luxury is certainly to be found in the mirrors, velvet the gilding, the but does all this expensive show give any pleasure when It loses all personal interest, and, stretrhing this way and thnl. can sometimes be measured by miles? To walk five hundred feet down the long corridors between doors which seem countless in number, and opening right and left to liberate strangers who pass you as if you were to be avoided as carefully as if you had the smallpox, cannot be o pleasure. To open your door and see five or six conventional pieces ot furniture standing about ut precisely the lam angles as in every other room fast-growi- deep-pile- d, ear-pet- s; - e. fist-terin- home-makin- g aaay they find the sacredness and privacy of hose about you and the tender aurroundlngs of your own family life soothing your pain. To be happy in or to grieve in. there can be no place like the shelter which love aud care have made for a man and his wife to abide in together, with the children God has given them to sweeten and hallow their inseparable lives. LOVERS CURICHJS OATHS. se tmt practice, he flatly refused to see any female patients and even went so far as to advertise In the local papers that he onee and forevir adjured womankind. His headstrong action, besides damaging his medical reputation to a serious extent, landed him in endless difficulties and complications, but ha never wavered in his purpose and became one of the most confirmed misogynists in the country. A Nav KodIdni for Women. And now a woman is running a trolley car. This new field for womankind may strike the casual observer as somewhat peculiar, but the young lady who has taken It up says that it is much easier than housework and a great deal more agreeable than a good many other things that women are called upon to do. There is a great deal of nonsensical talk about the necessity for strength in the ordinary pursuits of life. As a matter of fart, bruts force or what we call physical strength Is one of the minor Items in the success which people meet with In almost all of the ordinary occupations by which men and women earn their bread. It docs not require physical strength A Singular Vlnn. to command a ship or to fill the posiEvery Christinas Hen Wallock. a rich tion of conductor; indeed some of the Atchison county, Kansas, farmer, gath- most successful men In the world have ers his children around him and di- been physical weaklings; but they had vides thousands of dollars among them. brains, tact, nerve and alertness, which Mr. Wallack lives in Effingham and is goes a very long ways in making up t'ne only citizen of the village who the sum total of elements that conduce don't play croquet. to success. flower-de-luc- e, lloth Way. What sweet satisfaction it ia, said she. "to find a friend you can trusL And. oh. what a convenience it is. repM-- d Hardnp, to have a friend who will trust you."- - CulumhiiH Journal. ALL SORTS. CHICAGO ! far Their DUappolalmcat tv alMtteu Novel Ways. Apart altogether from the breach-of-promiquestion, there Is always an element of danger lu putting a proposal of marriage on paper, as a young mechanic who was enamored of a pretty maiden discovered some time ago, ays Collier's Weekly. He wrote a letter expressive of his SCIENCE OF HERALDRY. undying love for the girl of hlB choice The la the Tree Kailua of ud asking her in honeyed terms to become his wife, but. 8 he Chivalry tail Nubility, unfortunately, neglected to fasten it securely and The real meaning of a crest seems Tbe the envelope opened out in the post. quite obBcure to many people. crest Is, in fact, simply the ornament "When the maiden got the letter it "Found open and of on the top of the helmet worn by a was marked: sealed." and she was bo concommander, and is to distinguish him ficially In the confusion of battle, says the vinced that the poatofflee clerks had The mantle is been reading the proposal that she Philadelphia Times. the covering of the helmet, and ia as cried for very shame aud at once wrote an indignant reply, saying that she Inappropriate as the crest for ladles' could not marry a man who was careuse, excepting only persona who use it as a robe of estate. Helmets are of live less enough to expose a billet doux to kinds, varying according lu rank. The the prying eyes of government ofcrest is always, unless specially stated ficials. This sincere rebuff cut the mechanic otherwise, placed upon a wreath upon the top of the helmet, and Is always to the heart, and hastening to the respainted thus. The crest was in use idence of the fair one he eloquently long before armorial bearings were, and p'ridert forgiveness. Hut the maiden is the true mark of chivalry and nobil- wouldn't listen, and forbade him to ity. Achievements, shield of arms, es- come near her or to speak to her again. cutcheon and coat of arms are oue and Whereupon the poor mechanic, almost the same, although achievements are beside himself with rage and disapusually applied to those funeral es- pointment, swore he would never cutcheons which being placed upon tlie again make use of the postoffire, either fronts of houses or elsewhere set forth directly or indirectly. This vow he the rank and circumstance of the de- has stubbornly kept, and for the last ceased." A man's coat of arms is al- four years he has never bought a postways painted upon a shield, with sup- age stamp or used a sheet of writing porters and crest. If entitled to a crest. paper. A coat of arms was "a babit worn by Descried by his lady love, a middle-age- d the ancient knights over their armor, doctor proi ured a testament, both in battles and tournaments, upon tragically kissed it and affirmed in solwhich was applied the armories of the emn tones that he would not again knights, embroidered in gold and sil- speak to a woman, whether young or ver, and enameled with lienten tin, old. It was a foolish oath, but to his colored black, green, red and blue, loveless condition he felt equal to anywhence the ru'.e ever to apply color on thing and from that moment color, or metal on metal." The achieve- rarried out his determination. rigidly Heedments of married women are arranged less of the harm which he did to his precisely as ti.eir husbands', without the helmet, crest, mantle gr motto, the ground always painted black under tbe wife's and white under the husbands. Pplnsters' and widows' arms must always be painted upon a lozenge. "The achievements of widows differ from wives' In two respects the escutcheon is lozenge shaped and the ground is entirely black. The arms should be encircled by a sliver cordon." This cordon is the ba'lge of widowhood, And, of course, should never be used by unmarried women, though some outside make the mistake of painting it around the arms of spinsters. Shells, (herubian heads and knots or bows of ribbon are often placed about the arms of women, whether spinsters, wives or widows." If an unmarried woman is & peeress her supporters' robe of estate and rorunet" may be added to her arms. There are now nine different crowns or coronets used in England, strawberry leaves and bails forming their varying ornamentation. according to the varying ranks. Cur American duchess of Marlborough Is entitled to her coronet, hut she may not use a crest. NO. 4(. 1SS7. I A ROARINO RIVER. red let That Far State ef Affair Prof. Spencer's sddress before tbe members of the American Association for the advancement of science at Detroit last week attracted great comment at that assembly. He made a prediction, based on figures which he presented, that the course of the lakes was being changed, and that in time Detroit would be good fishing where the city hall now stands, and shortly after the waters of the lakes would be pouring over Chicago toward the Mississippi, and Niagara Falls would cease to exist. Prof. Spencer said that he agreed with Prof. Gilbert that there was a gradual upward tilting of the earth's crust at the northwest, and this discovery allowed it was the cause of the closing of the Ontario basin, liy data showing that the shore line of the s lakes was chariging und the were gradually rising at the rale of shout an inch In ten years to the southwest. be demonstrated that the whole lake region was being tilted in that direction. He said this would seem of trifling Importance, but it was really a serious matter for Chicago, been use that city stands on a low plain. The work of rutting the Chicago drainage canal, lie said, was a mere anticipation of nature, for the tilling of the lake basin would have produced the same result In less than a thousand years. Prof. Spencer demonstrated by figures that at one time the Erie basin emptied. not by the Niagara river, but by a buried valley, dlncily into the heud of Ontario, and that Niagara river and falls were modern features. He also showed that the gorge near the falls was eating Its way backward at a rate of over a foot a year, and that In the course or a few lifetimes It would wipe itself out. He and Prof. Gilbert agree that the calamity which will bury all lower Michigan and make a broad river through Illinois will not occur until $97. wv-er- Nearly Alwayt tirla VVliat Rha Wants. All the literature of the past tends to prove that women ought to live In subjection to men because literature has always lieen In the hands of men. Literature tells us that man was created first and that woman was made as an afterthought, in order to lie a companion to him. But science knows nothing of this tale. Now, tbe strength of women lies in the fact that men cannot do without them. If they rould have, then women would have become extinct long ago. Neither sex can do without the other. But women having been rendered timid by centuries of subjection, have never found out where their strength lies. I speak of women in general, for it In a very remarkable fact that, though women In genera have always been governed by the lawn laid down by men. Individual women very often find that they can do Just as they please. A woman can nearly always get what she wants if she makes enough fuss about it; and so It happens that In private life it is very often the woman who governs.--Westmins- ter Review. Rlile llirrctlona. Visitor I would like to get you t teach me to sail a boat. Boatman-Sai- l a boat! Why, It's easy as swim min'. Jest grasp the main sheet wit one hand an' the tiller with the utbci an' if a flaw strikes case up or brln Vr to an' loose the halyards, but loo out fer the guff an' boom nr the hu thing'll lie in (he water an' ye'll lie u; sit: blit if the wind Is steady y'r a right, on.css y'r ton slow In luffin cause then y'U lie upsot sure. Jump an' try it; lint, remember, whatever y Tn mre Her Mother. Clara .Nioriin, the daughter of John Moran, of New Haven, Conn., who was believed to have committed suicide from the fad that she' had been missing for two days, and left a letter for her mother and sisters, in which she said she would drown do dont Jibe! herself, has been found. The girl says IDEAS IN FASHIONS. she has not been out of the house since her disappearance, but has been hidA liuly of title recently appeared at ing in the cellar to create a scare in the a Loudon race tn a silver gray alpaca, liow mothto He her badly family, just revers framing a er and sisiirs would take on if she had with wide velvet ut white vest tucked chiffon; the foldherself. killed really ed belt of black satin ribbon came from The bonnet worn under tbe arms. Out 111m Knt lie'll a Mart Minnie laiughlin. of Alden, Iowa, with this costume was of black fancy struck up a cot respondence with Fred straw and lovely shaded crimson Grand, a circus man. through a Chicago roses. A beautiful Flinch product was ft paper. Friday they were married and sun-ra- y skirt of gray canvas, over a Ratarday Grnnd skipped fur parts un- silk the corselet bodice foundation; known. bad a circular basque, with a Itnre Felicity. opening In tlie bark, nnd double She-Su- ch lovely bargains as there crossed draperies In the front, caught are at ihat new place. He Ah! Sh on the shoulders with bright buckles. Yes, silks at 18 cents, and In a store The epaulets were petal like In form, so small that 100 persons crowd It to and, like the crossed bands on the bo Detroit Journal. suffocation! dire, were edged with narrow lace ruffles. The high rolled collar was enMore people over on hundred yean circled with a twist of primrose velold are found in mild climates than la1 vet. corresponding with the folded Half a million packs of playing cards are sold yearly. Mechanics head the list of inventors; clergymen next. Jerusalem is rapidly becoming modernized. There are now large printing offices in the city. The white rhino eros is nearly extinct. Ijondon has two stuffed specimens, and another is in a Capetown museum. A daguereotype of Louis Phillippe, taken in IS 10 by Daguerre himself, ha been presented to the Carnavalet museum in Paris. Tobacco-chewin- g members of thi Methodist church in Albertsville, Ala., have been levied upon by the steward for a special tax of 910 a year. Allen lleusied. 71 years old. of Grant Blanc, Mich., has taken to tbe bicycle with a vim. and tbe other dsy rode th higher latitudes. thirty miles to make a visit. 1 F. belt. |