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Pi :. . 1 THE DEMOCRAT PUBLISHING CO., PUBLISHERS. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR. VOLUME I. SCOTLAND NECK, HALIFAX CO., N. C. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1885. NUMBER 3 L nn E FABLE. BY THE EAIU. OF LTTTON. VoZ barren g,are WdJZ'&iMZT Bl: -ho there Wtch d for the cominar of "dvcntrons men. Hi l-climber-, raair with bold foot to rare 1 h-o' cloud and cold, pat reach of human ken, Albeit to walk alone they did not dare In that lone land. Fuil many su?h there be: Experience guides them, but exacts her fee. it. And to that solitary inn one day t nightfall thro' the darkening hills did wend Three travelers, by the single narrow way Tbit edged the valley to the valley's end. irjftit', when they saw above them, In a pray jjhrsm of mist, the pathit s peaks extend. Beyond whose snows their onwar i journey lay V!',t in obscurity, resolved to spend Tbe n'aht bjlow: where, as they supp'd together. Their ta k was of the road and of the weather. in. Abfint the road the pildcs (exhibiting Their patents by the Burgomeister sign'd) Fcplicd lomsnv an anxious questioning iih knowledge and authority combined; I'pon that point ermlttinj no such thinu As doubt or choice. And best it U. you"H find. The guid'.' by fate assigned yon (church cr king, or cree l or school) with defference due to mind, If thro' the w.-rld you would not miss your way, M'bei e a 1 who go unguided go astray. But as regard the weather, it was cot Bv means of patents which the state provides Esy to certify if "twould be hot of cold upon the morrow. .And, besides, Afraid of risking an unlucky shot, Authority was reticent. The guides. Press d upon this point, would vouch-afe no jot Or revelation. Coy as maiden brides To craving lovers, so adroit were they, Fach understood them iu a different way. jtie first one, therefore, of those travelers three Wide prepar at on to withstand the cold: Tbe second fear'd the S'tn's exces: and he His fur coil to his fe.low-pilgrim sold: The third, m'strusting the utility Of the whole enterprise, and being less bold, Or more indifferent is the case may be. Wen' onwaid bv a way which he was told. Though thrice as long, could be more safely wended; Shunning the rnonntain his two friends ascended. And eo they parted- one along the plain, Aione: the other two, with staff and guide, Up the steep hills. Anon, thy m?t again. In th neat hostel on tiie other side. The two who who u'er the mountain tops had ta'en Their arduous course, arrived their first; but, ttied Severely by the adventure, each was fain There, with exhausted forces, to abide o long a while, that he who went alone Got there at last before the two were gone. VII. These two had cross'd the mountain, so they said, Each by a road as different as could be: B cause t heir cuides tho' both were patent ei Hy thesa i e government, could not agre ; On the same road. Th us each b a own guide led By his own way: yet in the same degree 1 he two ways were so dilHcnlt 'tj tread, Kveu with inces.-act toil of hand and knee, Thit each wayfarer, when the goal he won, V, ss just as weary as tie other one. Ecotless that goal both reach'd with bleediug feet, 1 he man wb was well covered from the cold Had snffer'd all his journey fiom the hea'; He who at starting bis warm coat had sold Was nearly frozen by the icy sleet; Yet each, despite the woful tale he told, Averred that nanght in nature could compete With the mysterious splendors round him roll'd In solemn rapture by the mighty hiils. Which, seen and felt, repaid a thousand ills. And all this had tbey seen and felt; had seen 1 he sudden sunrise burst from nndernfath. And wrap with rosy fumes tae summits keen; Had felt the fine joy, sh ired the radiant wreath, Of the blithe sprite that dames in the sheen Of the sonorous torrent; feit the breath Of life grow godlike, brenth'd in bsste between The cold wide-open arras of watchful death, X'pon the slippeiy p?aks. And, after that. To them the plain seemed pitiably flat. The less adventurous traveler, while hie two KrgainM companions told their story out. Glinted smiling at his garments good as new. And boots still comfortably soled and stout; Then, with a sigh of satisfaction, drew The flagon to him, tnrn'd his chair about. Lighted his pipe, three pui?- deliberate bl ew, And. like a man who h;th disnrss'd all doubt. He cross'd his legs, and clcar'dhis throat, and said: "Alls well that ends well, as in books I've read. "And we, methinks, mast be content, we three, Ksch with the road he chose, who here to-day . J'ect all together just as well, you see, bit we all had travcl'd the same way. Yon two have traversed heights unknown to me; Bnt. missing these, I miss d the pains you say 1 heir pleasures cost; have kept my shin-bonts'free From aches and bruises; have no bills to pay For doctors' stuffs; have saved my baggage, too; And, though admiring, do pot envy you. "A finer rapture felt through every vein, A wider Drosnert. and a nnrpr air. On heights where yet yon could not long remain, nc juurs; anunowyou mourn oecanse ne'er. you hilst here on level ground, can feel again nai i, wno nive not ever mounted thei e, K euinfir the rnmmnn nntb. 'rtrita mfnu t, uh.n c icii m nn. q er tne ' the eommnn nlnin j in joyg oi common lite. by contrast SDoil d rvr tho-e who through untrodden realms have toild. "And long will you dispute, nor e'er agree, w nich way was best of those two ways you went, fcvn as your guides, of whom each boasts that he Found out tho only right one. I, content To take the beaten track, at least am free rvf a11 ench QO"bt8: nd. having kept tho Dent Of custom's course, my way was imde for me; guide 1 needed, since the trodden dent Of other footsteps served as guides to mine, And show'd me where to sleep and where to dine. xiv. "So compensation is assigned to each, There's something better, born of something worse, - f In every choice; and different men may reach (In this accommodating universe) By different ways the telf same end. To breach . All barriers, bni't by circumstance perverse, Is bold and brave; but bones of heroes bleach In warning heaps the stormy winds disperse On mountain tops, which men who cannot climb May turn by ways more safe, if less sublime." xv. Full hard of access is Philosophv; A monntain region, misty, cold, and gray, innumerable guides across it try lo lead men, eaeh one by a different way, i hough boasting each the same authority: The hivhofif PlimluM mnat a loaf anmA itav rrom their high climbing, climb they ne'ef so high, n T i i. 1 e common piain; wnere iney 111 haply find some less ambitious soul oj lowlier ways hath won the wisht-for goal. XVI. For he, perchance, makes way in life at last Who doth to turn life's obstacles contrive (shunning what he cannot surmount) as fast As they who stoutly to o'er'come them strive. " pleasant roaming over summits vast, But, arter all, philosoDhers must live Here on the plain wdere man's low life ispass'd. And 1TI tha n,,n. .11 lon.tk Into. J'hate'er the road that meanwhile pleased ns best, "vuiea, or bootless, at The Traveler's Kest. Youth's Companion. THAT STOUT PARTY. Aunt had left me a srood deal of property, and it was while on a journey "ora Liverpool to New York to look er the same that I fell in with the "out party. uer name was Crumbe Sararann rumbe an odd sort of name it seemed "r a young woman of her size; for she wa a stout party, and no mistake, and. queer enough, if she didn't seem to git "outer every day. I watched her so close, it seemed I could see 'er a-swellin' "isibly before my werry eyes. But I was gettm' deeper an' deeper under that 'ere "Pell aa makes fools of us all some time other. I even begun to write a poem . "w, so you mav know as I was urettv "esperate. I'd written advrtiin rhvma thout our soap, you know, but found PHILOSOPHY-A love verses quite different, and I balked after the fust two lines " My heart is yours, oh, Sararann Crumb f I long to speak, but love strikes me dumb." That was. in ray opinion werry neat as fur as it went, but it didn't go fur enough. But at last she seemed more friendly like, and I told her about Aunt Berlinder and the fortin' and the soap business. Tve quite a snug little shop of my own," sez she, ,;only I'm werry lonely." Then she giv me one of them meltin' looks with her eyes that seem to make a fellow's heart jest simmer down into jelly like. But I plucked up courage to say, "It's yer own "fault, mum, if you're alone. A charmin' young woman like you must 'ave 'ed loads of chances for gettin' a companion." "Oh, I'm afeard you're a flatterin', Mr. Stokes," she says, a smiling up at me, so as I couldn't help stealin' ray arm around her waist well, it didn't go 'alf round, you know and sayin', "Well, if you never 'ad a chance before, what do you say to takin' me for better or wuss? I'm sure you won't find it wuss." She didn't move away from my arm a bit. She just lookedat me with them black eyes, and says she, "Oh, Handrew! I'm hover thine!" And then it was pretty dark on deck, so I took her in my arms that is, as much as I could of her and stole a kiss for to seal the engage ment. After that, you know, the days slipped away like magic. She was a woner to talk, she was; she had, in fact, the gift of the gab werry gallopin'. But she seemed rather shy about permittiu' any embraces or affectionate squeezes. "I don't want to make a spectacle of my self," sez she. "I don't care if we make h pair oi spectacles,' sez x; ana tnen x wondered if it was her oncommoti cor pulence as made her awerse to squeezes, as them stout parties has difficulty in getting their breath at the best of times, aud I thought after we was married I'd try and coax her into takin' anti-fat, or some of them advertised things as say they have given folks a view of their own shoe-strings as 'adn't 'ad the pleasure of contemplatin' 'em for twenty years. So I 'ad to be contented with a squeezin' of her 'and, which, queer enough, wa? slim, and long, and quite thin. "Yer 'and don't never seem to belong to yer, Sararann," sez I, one day. "No, it belongs to you," she sez, with a quick look and a smile. "I know it, my love, but I mean it's not like the rest of you ; it's thin, but you're as plump as a a angel I" "I'm not always fat," she sez. "Oh, ain't you?" sez I, with a little feelin' of relief, I must confess, 'cos she was a leetle too much so, and I didn't want a wife as Barnum would be covetin' for his show. "No, it's the sea voyages as does it," she says, quite bewitchin'. "Perhaps vou won't love me as much when I git thin." "Oh, I'm yours through thick and thin!" I makes answer. "There's no changin' in Andrew Stokes, my dear." 1 noticed, however, that Sararann was not altogether easy in her mind. I began to bo afraid as there was another feller in the background or somethin'. and I pressed her to name the day. But sh was werry firm on that point. Vou must wait till we re on land," she says. "I feel that nervous while I'm on the water I can't settle nothin'. "Wait till we're safe on land." So I waited. It was a hot day enough when we hove in sight, and I really pitied poor bararann, she felt it so, with so much flesh on 'er. She was that flus tered I couldn't keep up with her, and actilly, she scarcely waited for the plank to be put down before she stepped ashore. I was hurryin' after her, when saw her stopped by two strappin' fel lers. I couldn't hear wot they said, but I know jealousy was like a wulture tear in' at ray witals. I saw her throw up her 'ands, and then I seemed to 'ear her cry "Handrew!" But before I got near 'er she 'ad disappeared as if the earth 'ad opened an' swallowed 'er up. You can fancy the feelin a of a fellow as sees is sweetnearc swonerea oeiore his weirry eves. I tore around here and there, and asked questions of everybody in a wild way. At last a Custom 'Uuse officer stopped and eyed me a moment. "A stout party r sez ne. "Oh. yes, a stout lady," I answered, pantin'." "1'erhaps you're ner paraners" sez ne. "I don't mind confessin' I'm goin' to be," sez I, givin' him a wink. "Oh, come now, none or tnan, sez he, quite stern. "We're incorruptible, as you'll find. An if you're goin' to be her pardner, I've a word to say to you. Just come in here." An' if the fellow didn't take me by the arm as if I . was a prisoner, an' he walked me into an inside office. I 'adn't more than got in when I see another Custom 'Ouse fellow coming out, an' behind 'im came a long, lanky beanpole of a female, with 'er clothes 'angin' like bags on 'er arms. But, the dress! Surely, I knew that garnet merino with the yellow trimmin's an' that 'at with yellow feather, an' the lace shawl! I felt as if 1 'ad got among magic i An when I saw Sararann's own face at the top of this lanky picture, I sez to the officer, "Punch me, or stick a pin in me, for I believe I'm crazy or drunk. Who is this woman?" Why, you said you was 'er pardner," says he, with a grin. "She's a smuggler a first-class one! She's an old stager, she is, an' they're a takin' 'er off to prison, an' you bein' 'er pardner 'as got to be searched likewise." At that moment the strange-lookin' fe male caught sight of me. "Oh. Handrew !" she cried. "Thank 'eavens, you are 'ere 1 Save me save me !" But I didn't care a bit. I looked stern. My blood was bilin'. "Woman," sez I, without flinching, "I never knew you 1" "Oh, what a base deceiver!" she screamed. "An' you said you'd love me through thick and thin!" 'But this is too thin!" says I. . "Oh, Sararann, this is much too thin!" An' so she was hustled off, an' I was searched, but as nothin' contraband was found on me I was let free. An' I never saw the stout party again or the thin one either. An' I got my eye-teeth cut that time, for no, female ever bamboozled me agin! -" , , The leathet product of this country reach;f200000,000 per aiinum. . HUMOROUS SKETCHES. He Seemed to Know Him. "Do you see that man over in the cor ner?" said an excited individual rushing into a friend's office. "Yes." "Do you know him?" "Never saw him before in my life. Do you know him?" "No, I don't, and that's what makes me mad." "What's the matter?" "He called me a liar." j "Why, how did he get acquainted with you?" "He never did. Didn't I just say I never " Something in the friend's face stopped him suddenly, and he went out like a flash and hasn't been back since. Merchant- Traveler. Seeking & Fortune in the West. "My dear," said a father to his daughter, "how long ago was it that George Jackson went West to seek his fortune?" "Just a year," the girl replied with a blush. "Was there anything between you and George? I sometimes thought he was fond of you." "He was, papa," and the girl hid her face on the old man's shoulder. 4 'I prom ised George when he went away that I would wait for him for years if nece3- 4 'I have a letter from him." "Oh, papa!" she exclaimed. "Does he er has he oh, tell me, what does he say?" "He wants twenty dollars to get home with." New York Sun. A Ditflcnlt Problem. Mrs. Blank is a rather young woman with a rather aged husband. He is a sci entist who spends most of his time in obtuse speculation, although the neigh bors say he is compelled to do most of the work about the house. This view of the case was recently strengthened by what a lady visitor saw. The wife of the scientist was at home and greeted the visitor cordially, who responded : "How do you do? I am glad to see you looking so well. And how is your husband ?"" 'He is quite well," replied the wife of the scientist. "He is in his studio engaged in solving some difficult mathe matical problems." .Just at this moment the voice of the scientist was heard from the kitchen : "I've got through grinding coffee. What shall I do next?" Sif tings. Nearly as LlrelrMBaseball. "Smithers, did you ever play lawn tennis?" "No, Brown-Jones, you know I don't go in for any of those easy games. I play baseball and lacrosse and . football, and games of that sort." 4 'Yes, but tennis isn't easy." "Oh, rubbish! Why, women play tennis." "Well, you just come down to the court and try a game with me." Well, if you want to see what an ath lete will do with your namby-pamby game, I'll come. Smithers smiled disdainfully at the racket that was handed him. 4 'I couldn't miss a ball with that thing, could IV "No," replied Brown-Jones. Brown-Jones served a hot overhand cut, and Smithers made a swipe that didn't come within a foot of it. "One strike!" he yelled. 44Fifteen love," said Brown-Jones. "What do you mean by that?"fc "That's a point for me." "Oh." Brown-Jones served again. This time Smithers caught the ball a terrific right hander, and sent it whizzing into the next township. 'Whoop! Home run!" he shouted. "What's that?" "Another point for me." "Oh." Brown-Jones served again. Smithers returned it. Brown-Jones cut It diagon ally over the net and close in behind it. Smithers made a rush and a swipe. He struck the ground with his racket, broke it short off at the handle, pitched head first into the net, and wrapped himself up in it. while one of the stakes ran into his mouth and knocked seven of his teeth into the innermost recesses of his beine. "Say, Brown-Jones," he said, when he had collected himself and found out who he was: "this game is blamed near as lively as baseball." Puck. Had a "aiy." "Come out through the back way and see my daisy 1" he chuckled as he rubbed his hands together. "What! gone into the funeral flowers business on your own account f ret, after all, why not? An undertaker might as well furnish the flowers as the coffin." "Come on. There how does that strike you?" "That's a hearse a new one." 'But it's the daisy I was speaking of. Isn't she spic-span and shiny? ' "Very nice." "I should smile. It lays oveT anything of the sort in this town, and don't you forget it ! Get in and lie down and let me bob the springs to show how easy it rides." "No. thank you." 4 4 You go on! There's points about a hearse the public ousrht to know. Get up on the driver's seat." 4 'Excuse me, but I prefer a family car riage. " 4 'Oh. pshaw! but vou are too thin- skinned, Just notice these springs. I tell you it will be a positive pleasure to ride above 'em. The dish of those wheels is absolutely perfect, and such a finish!" 4 4 Yes, very nice hearse." "You bet! Say, it will be a proud hour in my life when I hitch a span of white horses to that vehicle and prance around to the house of the late deceased. Lands I but won't the other und ertakers look blue! Say, feel of these curtains pure silk." "I'll take your word for it'.' "Goon, now! Hang it, but when an mdertaker puts up his cash for at regular daisy like this you newspaper "fellows ought to encourage him. Just remember that the old-fashioned way of carrying a body around in a lumber wagon and then gaze on this ! Just notice how these rear doors open to admit the coffin." k "Very handy." "Handy? Why, man, it'a superb! Have you noticed the glass in the sides?' "Seems to be vory good." "Good! Why, it's the finest in the world the very finest ! I wanted some thing to show off the coffin, and here it is. I tell you, the late deceased ought to feel proud to ride in such a vehicle ! You can say in your paper that it knocks 'em all out. Say, how are you on styles?" "What styles?" "Coffins and shrouds, of course. Come in a minute. I've got a new thing in shrouds something you are bound to appreciate, and I'm after a patent on a colira with an air-receiver in it. Say ! do me a favor. Let me enclose you in my new coffin and see how long the sup ply of air wiil last you. I'll bet a dol " But the reporter had gone. Detroit Free Press. Divorces of the World. The following particulars as to the methods of securing divorces in differ ent countries are interesting: Siamese The first wife may be di vorced, not sold, as the others may be. She then may claim the first, third" and fifth child, and the alternate children are yielded to the husband. Arctic region When a man desires a divorce he leaves the house in anger and does not return for several days. The wife understands the hint, packs her j clothes and leaves. Tartar The husband may put away his partner and seek another when it p!eases him, and the wife may do the same. If she be ill-treated she complains to the magistrate, who, attended by the principal people, accompanies her to the house and pronounces a formal divorce. Chinese Divorces are allowed in all cases of criminality, mutual dislikes, jealousy, incompatibility of temper, or too much loquacity on the part of the wife. The husband cannot sell his wife until she leaves him and becomes a slave to him by action of the law for deser tion. A son is bound to divorce his wife if she displeases his parents. Javaos If the wife be dissatisfied she can obtain a divorce by paying a certain sum. Thibetans Divorces are seldom al lowed unless with the consent of both parties neither of whom can afterward re-marrv. Moors If the wife does not become the mother of a boy, she may be di vorced with the consent of the tribe, and she can marry again. Aby8inians ho form of marriage is necessary. xhe connection may ue dis solved and renewed as often as the par ties think proper. Siberians If the man be dissatisfied with the most trifling acts of his wife, he tears her cao or veil from her head, and this constitutes a divorce. Coreans The husband can divorce hb wife, and leave her the charge of main taining the children ; if she proves un faithful he can put her to death. Druse and Turkoman Among these people, if a wife asks her husband's per mission to co out, and if he says "go," without adding "but come back again," she is divorced. Though both parties desire it, they cannot live together with out being remarried. Cochin-Chinese If the parties choose to - separate, they break a pair of chop sticks or a copper coin in the presence of witnesses, by which action the union is dissolved. The husband must' restore to the wife the property belonging: to her prior to her marriage. American Indians Among some tribes the pieces of sticks given to the wit nesses of the marriage arc burnt as a sign of divorce. Usually new connections are formed without the old ones being dis solved. A man never divorces his wife If she has borne him sons. Leeds Mer cury. A New W eapon of Death. A London correspondent of the New York Times describes a new weapon to be seen at the Inventors' exhibition, re cently opened in that city, which in its capacity for the destruction of life bids fair to excel anything now used in war fare. It is the invention of Mr. Maxim, an American. Conceive a 'weapon, spondent, weighing pounds, mounted upon can be lowered, raised, says the corre only sixty-five a tripod, which moved laterally with ope band as easily as a garden hose. and which pours out automptically 600 shots a minute ! "The basis of it all is the utilization of the receil force to fire the next shot. Each time the recoil energy, instead of being wasted in kicking the gun over, is used to eject the empty cartridge, and lire it. The cartridges are taken in from the bottom in a chain, just as the per fecting press takes paper from the roll. Each of these chains has 333 cartridges packed in a box which is set in a groove under the gun. The operator has simply to start the gun a matter of seven turns of the hammer crank and then, when the chain of cartridges is nearly exhausted, fasten a new chain to the hook at the end and push out the old box with a new, full one. ' For the rest he can devote his attention solely to training the weapon. A Queer Superstition. Abram Reed, a farmer living in Beaver township, Penn., cut down a large oak tree on his farm, and in cutting it up he found, imbedded in the trunk, seven or eight feet from the ground, a small glass bottle and what had the appearance of a lock of hair. The bottle had been in serted in aliole in the tree made by an augur, then a pine plug was driven into the hole over the bottle, the hair also being held in the hole by the plug. The bottle was corked, and contained a colorless liquid. Over the plug had grown six solid rings of wood, beside a thick bark. There was a superstition among the early settlers, and it is held by many of their descendants, that asth ma and other affections could be cured by the victim standing against the tree and having a lock of his hair plugged in it while the hair was still attached to his head. It must then be cut off close to his head, and the afflicted person walk away without looking at it or ever pass ing by the tree again. While the use of a bottle was not included in this treat ment, it is believed that the one with the hair discovered in the heart of the oak tree was put there in the early days of the settlement by some believer in the superstition to cure an ailment of some kind.-1 Lumber World. -.. Why is the mosquito like charily? Be cause it begin to hum. Sif tings. FOR FEMININE READERS Reautiful at Four Score. And old lady over eighty years of age, and who was once a great beauty, died recently in Paris, leaving after her a diary in which she endeavors to show up the alleged vanity of women. From the age of twenty to thirty she spent three hours a day at her toilet, which foots up for the period one year ninety-one days and six hours employed in dressing her hair, powdering her cheeks and painting her lips. From thirty to fifty the toilet labors amounted to five hours a day, the extra hours being consecrated to cover ing up the tracks of time, including the obliteration of crows' feet and other n3cessary filling in and grading. Time, four years and forty days. After fifty her efforts had to be redoubled. To the last she resisted the effects of time. Chicago Herald. How Ladies Should Hide. The horsewoman should sit so that the weight of the body falls exactly in the centre of the saddle, without heavily bearing on the stirrup, able to grasp the upright pommel with the right knee, and press agaiust the "hunting horn'' with her left knee, yet not exerting any mus cular action for that purpose. For this end the stirruo leather must be neither too long nor too short. The ideal of a fine horsewoman is to be erect without being rigid, square to the front and, until quite at home in the saddle," look ing religiously between her horse's ears. The shoulders must, therefore, be square, but thrown back a little so as to expand the chest and make a hollow waist, "such as is obssrved in waltzing," but always flexible. On the flexibility of the person above the waist and on the firm ness below all the grace of equestrianism all the safetydepends. Nervousness makes both men and women poke their heads forward a stupid trick lu a man, unpardonable in a woman. A lady should bend like a willow in a storm, al ways returning to an easy yet nearly up right position. This seat should be ac quired while the lady's horse is led, first by hand, then with a leading stick and finally with a luncheon rein, which will give room for cantering in circles. But where the pupil is encumbered with reins, a whip and directions for guiding her horse she may be excused for forget ing all about her seat or her position. The arms down to the elbows should hang loosely near, but not fixed to the sides, and the hands, in the absence of reins, may rest in front of the' waist. Philadelphia Times." "' Tlie Latest Agonies In Fans Japanese and Indian fans are the rage this season. The newest Japanese fan shown is called the "Ning-po," and is made the exact shape a palm-leaf grows, with the stick coming down one side, so that it will be more for ornament than use. The leaf is left plain or ornament ed with hand painting, a great bow of satin ribbon being fastened to the han dle. This same shape, which is destined to be very popular, is made up in the most exquisite of gauzes and laces, hand-painted with delicate flowers, the stick gilded or made of carved ivory. Some curious little folding fans, made of paper, have four sticks, each one highly carved, with two lines of Japanese poetry. Larger folding fans of silk are fringed with gold " tinsel or feather trimming, and on many of them arc heavy embroideries instead of paintings. Umbrella faus, in feathers and satin, imported from China, are among the noveliies shown. A very pretty one made out of pale blue and pink feathers closes up like an umbrella. When opened the stick of colored sandalwood i.-? pressed to one side and make a per fect round fan. The inside is lined with pure white feathers Indian fans are coming more into favor every season. They make very curious fans of feathers and braided straw. These little round fans of fine braided straw will be used at all the resorts this sum mer. The tops are run with ribbon of any color. They are light, useful and pretty. Eagle feather fans with queer Indian markings in gilt ate very pretty. Some will sell for fifty dollars. New York Journal. . Old Fashions in Hair Dressing:. Toward the end of the thirteenth cen tury in France, under Philip the Fair, the head dress was nothing more than a simple arrangement of the hair. This mode came from Italy, where simple and elegant head-dressing was the fashion during the middle ages. In the first style adopted the parting passed over the head from one ear to the other, the front portion of the hair being carried to tbe forehead and frizzed, while the latter part was divided into two long plaits, which, being crossed over the neck, were made to meet again at the top of the forehead, and formed a diadem of hair. A rather curious arrangement of the hair came into vogue in 1330. The hair was parted in the middlelwo very short locks being made to curve out on cither side of the forehead; the two hind plaits were then crossed and brought under the ears up the sides of the face, being fas tened . among the hair, which hung loosely on the sides of the head. In 1340 the two plaits were carried up the sides of the face, having between them and the cheeks a lonir piece of straight hair cut squarely to the length of the plaits. In the frescoes of the chapel of St. Ste phen's, Westminster, Queen Philippa and her three daughters were represented with their hair thus arranged. This fashion produced a very stiff and: ugly result, and the next was little better. The front and back hair having been di vided into two-tresses, the skull was covered with a coif, and the front tresses each carried under the ears and made into large rolls, while the back hair was brought forward over the border of the coif. The- result was to produce two great bosses.pf hair, lesembling short horns, on either side of the head. An Eng ish Royal MS., of the date of 1335, says: "What shall we say of the ladies when they come to festivals? They look at each other's heads, and carry bosses like horned beasts. If any one be with out, she is an object of scandal." The dependence on hair led those who had not a good supply to have recourse to artificial additions. But during the fourteenth century there was reaction against this practice, the woui'i adopt ing for a time the wimple, which djd not require such aids. The wimple ap pears to have been a development of the hood or capuchon, which the women wore as well as the men. In the thirteenth century they fastened a Tail round the capuchon, and the part of the head-dress left travailed was called the guimpe, or wimple. It was made of fine white linen, and came to be worn right over the chin and swathed round the throat. Sometimes it was drawn still higher, and the vail being dropped as low as the eyebrows, it became a tolerably good disguise. At first a little lock of hair was worn on each side of the temple, but as the Fourteenth Century advanced it vanished. ' The hair was still dressed in plaits and twists, and might be seen under the folds of the white linen. In a statue of the widow of a count of Flan ders, killed at Crecy, originally in the cathedral of St. Dcni3, the vail is almost fitted to the shape of the head and face by a stiff border of fine pleats, the lower part falling in exactly arranged folds over the dress, while the wimple passes over the chin and throat; and a similar fashion obtained in Germany. Later on the vail was drawn together under the chin, and lappets became more ample. Have we not here the origin of the wid ow's cap? To realize its likeness, one ought to recall its form a quarter of a century back. Magazine of Art. Fashion Notes. Fashion inclines to large parasols. Double skirts are seen on new dresses. Lace parasols in all colors arc scl lom lined. Jetted parasols are both novel and ele gant. Old-fashioned sprigged muslins are in style again. Wrappers of linen lawn are shown for midsummer. Thin veilings make the prettiest of summer dresses. Madras scarfs of brilliant tints will be used as hat trimming. Limousines mixed with plain goods make very lovely toilets. White nun's veiling remains in favor as nice dresses for misses. . Doylies of fine guipure lace are pre ferred instead of heavier materials for summer use. tvedgewood designs m table ware are again popular and in much demand in this country. Poppy red and blue serge jackets will be worn on morning walks with muslin and cotton dresses. Plaid sasli ribbons and Roman striped gauze scarfs make gay trimmings for children's shade hats. Velvet bonnet-strings arc being laid aside for those of lace and gauze stuffs, especially gauze ribbons. Hieh, full bodices of lace over a low bodice of colored silk are very much adopted for small receptions. The little drawn muslin hats, which were formerly only worn by children, are worn by ladies as garden hats thia sea son. Byron collars of solid jet, with two scarfs of beaded net to tic below the throat, are shown to wear with black dresses. Blue flannel and red flannel dresses are made for girls' country and traveling suits; they have kilt skirts and sailor blouses. Tunics, polonaises and every kind of drapery used for figured materials are equally adapted for flowered lawns and cambrics. Many beautiful pattern dresses of Swiss embroidery are much improved by being made over a colored slip of cam bric or silk. Jetted zouave jackets, very short and beaded in small designs, are worn over waists ol house dresses of black silk, satin or surah. Mantles are shorter than they ever have been, and are little more than shoulder capes with a narrow part of the front lengthened like a mantilla. Pretty white muslin and linen lawn dresses for misses are made with a fitted basque that is worn with a belt of velvet ribbon that has a bow on the side. A tucked sKirt is in good style for soft, thin woolens, and should be made in lengthwise tucks for older ladies and in horizontal tucks for young ladies and misses. Flannel, while making a good dress for long tramps in the mountains, also for yachting suits, is not suitable for a traveling dress because it catches the dust so easily. Braiding K so much in vogue that even for midsummer, for traveling and for the seaside, small wraps of army blue cloth will be worn entirely covered with braiding in black mohair braid of several widths. Very rich black dresses for the sum mer are made of China crepe embroid ered or brocaded for the skirt, while the overdress is made of lace, either entirely of piece lace, or of lace flounces formed with lengthwise strips that alternate with bands of plain crepe or of watered silk. Monday Lack. Friday, as everyone knows, has for many years been regarded by many as an unlucky day. But there are other '.ays of the week which are regarded as more or les? unlucky, and not a few look upon Mondays as indicative of what they may expect during the following days of the week as to their business. There is a large class who will bemoan a dull Monday, and some of them will court good luck by selling to the first customer who appears Monday morning at a nominal figure. Others have for various reasons selected other days of the week as lucky or unlucky. From the number of marriages on Thursdays and Tuesdays' it would appear that those days are regarded as happy ones by the matrimonially inclined. The question of the influence particular days may have upon the luck of a couple does not, however, appear to enter the minds of those who run away from their homes for the purpose of marrying. Washington Star. - : " Beer brewers in America employ an army of half a million men ; they have invested a quarter of a billion dollars in their bus;ne3s, aud they sell about one hundred and eighty million gallons of beei a year. THE IRONY OF TIME, If we conld resurrect tbe years again When life is on the wane it we could learn by many a bitter truth The value of our youth re the inexorable hand of time . Has harvested our nrimai How we should drain from every flower wa meet Tho last dron of its swept! We scorn the present hour and strive to bor row Somo forestate of the morrow: Tho morrow has its sorrow and the pain Ui hone deferred arain : So waste the years till age, defeated, stands uesoiute, with empty hands. L'ilgrims on paths our fathers trod before We trace their footsteps o'er On every height, in every vale we meet bigns of then- toiliner feet,. Gashed oa the rook and wounded by the taorn Where we are stunz and torn. What was it that they sought? Oh, burning ejvs: Fixei on low western skies, , The beckoning shapes that seam so fair to you Wear the same dazzling hue That lured the Vikings through tempestuous seas Beyond the Hebrides, Toward purple isles of peace and golden land?, To die on freezing strands. Time has no precicm treasure stored away Beyond our grasp to day; Earth ha? no secret garden of delight Hid from our aching sight. Too late we learn the humble highway flower Is life's best gift and dower The light that kindles in meek, maiden eyes Is love's divinest guise; Too late! too late wo find there is no more On any sea or shore Than thoso rich offerings we have over throw Pursuing the unknown, Nor any road by which we can attain Youth's vanished grace again. '-Charles L. Hildrelh, in New York World. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. There's no flour in the idler's loaf. The mouse a woman never fears A moustache. 4 'Were you a bull or a bear?" asked an acquaintance of a speculator. 4'Neither," he replied, 4 'I was an ass." Burlington Free Pres. The alamannchas its uses. Without it, it would be almost impossible to distin guish spring from winter or winter from spring. lioston I'ranscript. RECOGNIZES A FRIEND. And now the watermelon green, In market stalls attracts the eye ; The doctor with a smiling mien Regards it as he passes by. lioston, Courier. "The Northwest lumber resources have decreased twenty-five per cent, in the last year." The supply of block heads, however, keeps right up with the demand. A Wisconsin man was reported as 4imurdcrud" when the word should havo been "married." but the distinction was so slight that the proof-reader let it pass. Boston Pest. You can find a man w1k njoys break ing in new boots a good deal easier than you can converse with a woman who wouldn't stop eating pie to kiss a baby, any t'mc. Chicago Ledger. The Jones and tho Browns, 'tis true, a goodly showing make; But you'll agree our family from them can "take the cake," Yet should you chance to doubt the fact and reckon it a myth, Just look in the directory and find the name of SSniith. Life. "I have here a letter directed to the prettiest woman in the. house," an nounced the presidentcss of a woman's convention. Four reporters on the front scat were trampled to death in the rush for the speaker's stand. Asking too much A man applied at a house in San Antonio for aid. "You should go to work and earn a living," was the indignant reply. "Go to work! . It isn't bad enough that I am so poar that I have to beg, and here you come and want me to work beside." Sift ings. 4 'What and When to Eat" is the title of an article in an exchange. This is a subject on which we are posted. The 4 'when'' never gave us any trouble in all our eating, but we have been compelled to do a thundering sight of skirmishing around after the "what." Newman In dependent. THE MERRY MAIDEN. The sealskin sacque, that erst with pride she wore, Is now in camphor safely laid away, And from the sultry city to the shore With pleasure hastes the maiden fair and In linen,- lawn, or muslin, or pique, And ribbons at her throat, a vision fair, Along the yellow sands where wavelets play She passes slowly, with a pensive air, Creating havoc 'mong the hearts of mash ers there. Boston Courier. Call a girl a chick, and she smiles; call a woman a hen, and she howls. Call a young woman a witch, and she is pleased ; call an old woman a witch, and she is indignant. Call a girl a kitten, and she rather likes it; call a woman a cat, and she'll hate vou. Queer sex, isn't it? Red Bluff (Cal.) News. 44 Say not that the day of disinterested benevolence has vanished. We know of a man who has the rheumatism, which has treated him in the most cruel man ner, and yet there is no end to the things that man has done for that rheumatism, and he still continues in the same un selfish course." Boston Transcript. FIGURATIVE ASTRONOMY Astronomy is 1 derf ul And interesting, 2; The eartf volves around the sun Which makes a year 4 you. The moon is dead and calm, By laws of phys 6 greet; It's ? where the stars alive Do nightly scintil8. If watchful Providence be 9 With good in 10 tions fraught Did not keep up its grand dslgi We soon would come to 0. Astronomy is 1 derf ol, ' - . Bnt it's 2 89 4. 1 man 2 grasp, and that is why 1M K.Hr nav n. mar. i 4
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