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 1 m i\ It: lit 11 ESPECIALLY FOR LADIES. Tbe Domestic Troubles of a Toons Dnch- ess-ldvlng on Ten Dollars a Week-A Uan Tries TiRht lAClnsâ€" Small Talk for Tlie Ijadles. C'hltH'kar. Poor Sophie Galltrin. A short, sensational and sorrowfal life was brought to a close recently when the Duch- ess of Chaulnea (nee Princess Sophie Galitzin iied at the age of "25 in a humble cottage in La Villette. She was married, in ISTo to the Dukeof Chaulnes, and their feeble little childreu are the last survivors of the grei-t iiouse of Luynes, th? foundations of whose fortunes were laid by d'Albert, tirst page to Louis XIII., af.erward constable of France He and his two brothers were compelled to mike their visits to Court semi-weekly be- cause they oniy had one gala costume be- tween them. A little while later and each was the husband of an heiress and had been adopted into a family of the ancient nobili- ty. The matrimonial succeBses of the Luy- nts are chronicled by SaJht Simon and oth- er writers of his time. Of lite years the hand of death and misfortune has been heavy on the family. The Duke of Chev- leuse was killed by a fall from his horsa in l!o4. His elder son, who had served in the pontifical zouaves, was killed while leading a battalion of mobiles in the war of 1S71. The youngerson, whose widow had just dieJ, never recovered from the efifects of the .-^ame severe campaign, in which he was v.-ounded. Their sister died 'suddenly. Their mother, the Duchess of Chevreuse, wno still survives, is an energetic, ambi- tions, and implicable little woman, a de- votee in relieion, and perhaps also slightly deranged through her misfortunes. Her son's marriage with the beautiful and dash- ing .Sophie (Jalitzin, a daughter of the Prince Auguntin, who. sacrificed auestate of ••5140,000 a year by abjuring the Greek faith for the Catholic, was a sore trial for the duchess. Two women could not very well be imagined who were less likely to get on together. The bride was gay, â€" al- most wild, â€" hig'i-tempered, fond ol society and hunting the mother-in-law austere and iiiipitieut of opposition. As for the nusbanil, the last spark of his ancestral en- ergy- seems to have burned itself out during clie campaign against the Prussians, and he has betn represented as so lazy that he took iii-i meals and was shcve 1 in bed, and only abandoned the blankets to go to chapel under liis mother's watchful eye. it is not quite a year since tlie "duel of the liuchejiies" scandalized French society. Had they been fishwives instead of repre- 'â- â- '^ntativis 'f two of the great families of I"ranc3 and Pasaia, they could not have tiiused each oilier more dently, and. \vh chevei- side was to be believed, the reve- i.itiuus "f aristocratic life were even less s ivory thill thos'j tl.at cioss-actions for ,is.-auit aid hatterv are accustomed to pro- ve. ku' ill a p'jlice c mrt in a disreputable iK-i^lib'jr'ioo 1. "i]f. I)uk^ of Cliaiilnes had â-  lie I, ar.d the c.istody of his children had i.'-r 1 iiitrus.ijit) t.icu- -randmother. For th.j.r p(jssj3sioii the widow contended, al- h;giiiir a aeries ^)f p'^rrieciitions and outrages that did not yield in their romantic and tiirilliug cnaracror to aaytiiing recorded in the literature of the impiisition. The young duchess alleged that she was shut up in a i-ountry mansion and nagged perpetually; that wLen s'ck it was not her mother-in-laH3 lault it she recovered, and that the elder lady, ma id-iued at her son's marriage, in- flamed his mind with suspicions and did her utmost to comproiiiisc lier daughter-iu law. The duko was induced to depart on the al- leged voyage which has furnished an incid- en; for the plots of how many novels and ilramas, and returning unexpectedly atnight proceeded to "draw ' his wife's apartments, accompanied by all the inmates of the chat- eau, guests and servants, afterward compel- iug her to appear in the hall and upon her knees confess her infidelity and plead for the forgiveness of which she was unworthy. On another occasion the young duchbss was awakened from her beauty-sleep to behold t le alirming spectacle of one priest at the lieaii of l.er bed and a secoii 1 at its foot. They duly praye 1 over its startled occu- pant, and stood aside while the old Duch- ess produced a paper and bade her sign or die. Mme. de Chaulnes sprang from her couch and fled toward the door, but her husband appeared at the portal to cut off her retreat with a cocked revolver, and she had to sign the document and declare her- self unworthy to have the charge of her children. And when her husband was dying, despite his wishes and her frenzied pleading's, she was refused the last sorrow- lul privilege of closing his eyes, and thrust from the gates penniless and friendless. The young duchess did not deny having sit'ned the compromising documents, but insisted that her will had been forced by- threats of death, and she gave the final romantic touch to her case by attempting the abduction of her children. Aided by a gentleman who was said to have declared his passion for her and to have received the promise of her band and heart as soon as he had compassed the rescue of the little ones from their gorgon grandmother, she pro- vided a faithful maid-servant, and a retain- er, shrouded in an ample cloak, to steal his children, a closed carriage with relays of horses being in readiness, and a fishing- smack awaiting the party's arrival at the seashore. The plot, however, inisoarried. One story is proverbially good until an- other has been told, and when the Duchess of Chevreuse came to pu# in her evidence she alleged the existence of an altogether different state of things. She insisted that the young duchess was too much occupied with her numerons lovers to pay any atten- tion to her children, and that one of these levers had been chased by the servants, but had escaped ^through his fleetness of foot. He was a prudent swain, as appaared from the f swt that he rigged a rope to the window of the chat€au so as to escape the more readily, and that he put on a pair of rustic boots that his footsteps on the snow might not betray him. His gloves, handkerchief, and love-letters, however, remained as trophies. The young duchess was described as "knocking her chUdren about," and even taming them cot of bed to make room for her dogs she was accused of consuming great quantities of opium and retarding the fevered dreams of her sleep as things that had really happened. Her misooBdnct kill- ed her husband, and he died caiang her name and imploring his mother to keep his children from contamination by their moth- er. Altogether, whichever story was to be believed, the meanest and most miserable wo- man of the countryside had no reasen to envy the life of the rival chatelaines. The courts sustained the allegations of the grandmother and gave her the cu»tody of the children. Since that time but little has been heard of the young duchess whose life has just gone out. A Parisian chroni- queur thus described her at the time of the trial in May, 1882 " She was in deep mourning. Her golden fleece of hair hung down her back in a Ion?, loose net of yellow silk, hardly distinguished from the burnish- ed mass it contained. If the Duchess de Chaulnes had a perfect mouth she would be a woman of rare beauty. It is notugly. The lips are red and fresh and not too white. But the expression is silly. Anyone who has gone through the world and has an eye for physicgQomy would know before she spoke that her conversation is disjointed, precipi- tate and monotonously vapid. She might, her teeth being clinched, insert her forefin- ger between the upper range â€" which is white and e /en â€" an 1 the under. The eyes are of opal gray. At the palais de justice they were artificially encircled with lustre which gave a languid, suffering air, and by force of contrast blanched the fair com- plexion." streets of London she came to a parbcularly maddy spot, which she hehitated to cross. Raleigh wm about to throw down his cloak brfore her in order that she might cross dry-ehod, when he reflected Hiat rt was of costly velvet, lavishly ornamented witii old Uce, and so would infallibly be sTwiled. Accordingly, with grwt presence of mind he whispered loudly to Sir Chnsto- ph«r Hatton that he had always contended, and would with his heart's blood maintain that her majesty had the smallest feet and neatest ankles in the world, and that the calumnious report that she wore elevens was a malignant invention of the Spanish court. Nor did the ruse fail of its effect, as the Virgin Queen, lifting her royal skirta with almost exaggerated enthusiasm, went through the puddle with characteristic reso- lution, and halting on the farther side shook her sceptre under the nose of the Spaaish ambassador, demanding of the astonished diplomat with a royal oath "Are theyelev- ei.s, you Roman dog? Are they elevens?' â€"0. T. L., in lAfe. Living on Tsn Dollars a 'Week. "A Buckeye Girl,' at Cleveland, 0., takes a hand in the controversy recently published io the Xew "Xork Sun as to the possibility of a man supporting a family on an income of §10 a week. She siys "I am the wife of a man who has a salary of only §10 a week. I am not a household drudge. On the contrary, I haven't enough work. We have a comfortable home of four rooms, nicely furnished. \ye dress well and have plenty of good food to eat. I am a musician, so we rent a piano, aiid indeed I felt quite like a lady until I was sneered at by those having more money than we. But they cannot make me discontented. I have al- ways been satisfied with our small salary, thougb before my marriage I was accustom- ed to an elfgant house and wealth. We have no children, but my sister is living with us. We feed, but do not clothe her^ out of our §10. We pay §3 a week for our rooms. Our table supplies do not co^t over §4 per week, and generally less. We do not eat as many beans as James and Jen- nie, but we eat considerable oatmeal and cracked wheat, not from necessity, but be- cause we are very fond of it and know it to be healthful. We generally eat oatmeal, with milk and sugar, for breakfast, and have coffee, bread and butter, and cake. For dinner we have vegetables, meat often (not always), bread, butter, aad for dessert, pie, pudding, or cake. Supper's bill of fare is the same as for breakfast, with the substitu- tion of cracked wheat for oatmeal, and the addition of sauce. "I do not know whether living expenses are lower here than in New York not. I fancy there is not much difference. Rents and eatables of almost every description are astonishingly high here at present, and have been. "I wisli to describe my wardrobe to furth- er show these unbelievers in what a genteel manner two can live on §10. My best dress is a complete suit of black satin stylishly made. 1 have, besides four or five good suits, for which I paid from 50 cents to §1.50 per yard. Some of them I hired made the rest 1 made myself. I am always well sup- plied with kid gloves, hats, shoes, and wraps, and never look shabby when dressed for company, calls, or the street. "How now, tailor You dare not tell mo I haven't told the truth. I am carious to know what you will say concerning my statements. Shall I have the pleas- ure 'â- The 'longshoreman said he would like to shut James Short up and feed him on his own bill of fare for six months. I dare say James would be perfectly willing to be treated so, provided Jenny conld be the cook. A great deal deal depends on the cooking of eatables, cheap or expensive, as to whether they are satisfactory. "There is one thing I forgot to meution. I get my washing and ironing done every two weeks for §1. I never do my own washing. I guess now I have said enough, and will make mybow and retire, hoping my remarks will elicit no curses. I have not ex- aggerated nor been untruthful in the least degree." A Uan Tries Tight Lacins. Mr. Richard A. Proctor, the well-known lecturer on astronomy.once tried the experi- ment of wearing a corset, and thus describes the result "vVhen the subject of corset wearing was under discussion in the pages of the English Mechanic, I was struck," he says, "with the apparent weight of evidence in favor%f tight lacing. I was in particular struck by the evidence of some as to its use in reducing corpulence, I was corpulent. I also was disposed, as I am still, to take an interest in scientific experiment. I thought I would give this matter a fair trial. I read all the instructions, carefully followed them and varied the time of applying pressure with that 'perfectly stiff busk' about which correspondents were so enthusiastic, i was foolish enough to try the thing for a matter of four wecKs. Then I laughed at myself as a hopeless idiot, and determined to give up the attAipt to reduce by artificial means that superabundance of fat on which only starvation and much exercise, or the air of America, has ever had any real reducing in- fluence. But I was reckoning without my host. As the Chinese lady suffers, I am told, when her feet-bindings are taken off, and as th« flat-headed baby howls when his head-boards are removed, so for a while was it with me. I found myself manifestly bet- ter in stays. I laughed at myself no longer. I was too angry with myself to laugh. I would as soon have condemned myself to using crutches all the time as tc^wearing al- ways a busk. But for one month of folly I tad to endure three months of discomfdrt. At the endef about that time I was my own man again." History Se-wrltten. As Queen Elizabeth, attended by Sir Walter Raleigh and a retmne of gilded courtiers, was one day walking through the A Society Woman's Blander. Mrs. Commissaire, says a Washington letter, is a very intelligent society leader, who, in the wild race for social popularity, tries to be able to make some appropriate remark about the family aff-irs of everybody she meets. Last winter she sat just across the board from Commander Levvessaire, of the navy, at a large dinner party. She had her question ready, and as soon as they met afterward sh^ said to the commander, whont she had not seen for some time " And how is Mrs. Levvessaire " "She is dead, nia- dame," solemnly replied the bereaved hus- band. Madame turned off her blunder as smoothly and quickly as possible, and bit her lip savagely on the way home. The other night she met the sorrowing commander for the first time since last winter. "And how is Mrs. Levvessaire?" she asked, before she thought. "She is still dead, madame," re- plied the grave commander, his eyes twink- ling with something like merriment at her vexation. They fileant Business. A gentleman of Sioux City, Icwa, who was snow-bound for six days in Morgan township, tells the following incident of life in the country. There boarded with a farm- er in Morgan a well-to-do bachelor, owner o a team and other property, named Philip Ilabel. Philip wanted a wife, and made no secret of his desire, The farmer with whom he boarded being at the house of a neighbor across iuTJonona county, mentioned Phil- ip's longing. The Monona countryman said that there was in his house a young lady, Miss Matilda Woodfork, who was liijewise anxious for a life partner. The farmer said he would mention it to Philip. He did, and Philip went right over, proposed without waste of words, and was accepted in the Sams practical spirit. Philip gave his be- trothed $5, "to bind the bargain," as he ex- plained, and within a day or two the couple went to Onawa and were married. CHIT-CHAT. Homely girls, it is said, are resorting to magnetic belts to draw admiration. A young lady when presented with a pair of opera-glasses asked: "How in the world am I to keep them on " The poetical expression, " Riches have wings," must have been suggested to the author by seeing the wings on a woman's hat. When you see a sour-faced woman sifting ashes on her icy sidewalk, it is difficult to tell whether she loves the human race or hates the new carpet of her next-door neigh- bor. To Joseph Jefferson is attributed the re- mark that, although the late lamented duch- ess of Gainsborough's hat may form a fina background to a lovely face, it is a bad fore- ground to a comedy. A young woman in Ardon, 111., crazed by religion, imagines herself an angel. It is better for a young woman to retain her men- tal balance, and let the young men in the neighborhood imagine her an angel. Standing beiore a clergyman who was about to marry him, a rustic was asked "Wilt theu have this woman," etc. The man stared in surprise and replied " Ay, suiely Whoy. I kummed a-pup-pus " Sedalia, Mo., has a billiard saloon for la- dies only, and the proprietor already thinks of taking out the tables and allowing the fair creatures to play right on the floor, where a good deal of carroming is done now. Old Mrs. B. came to town last week from Indiana on an excursion, and when she was asked why she was in such a hurry to leave, she replied "I've got to go; you see as how I came in on an exertion train, ond my ticket perspires to-ni?ht." Women are called "the weaker sex," and yet, up to the hour of going to press, not one of her sex in this country has shown enough intellectual weakness to embark in the weather-prophet business, or attempt to eat sixty quail in thirty days. You can't calculate upon what girls will do in an emergency. The New York board- ing-school misses who pitched upon a bur- glar and held him until the police arrived would, doubtless, jump upon the sofa and scream if a mouse entered their room. The dresses of Lollia Paulina, the rival of Aggnpina, were valued at $2,764,880, not mcludmg her jewels, which cost as much more. It has shpped our memory whether Miss Paulina was the daughter of a plumber or an editor, but our impression is that she was. A woman who had been dumb for fifteen years recently feU from achair and the shock restored her speech. The next day her hus- band stumbled over the same piece of furni- ture and broke his arm. He then gave â„¢e chair away to a bitter enemy. h.Y'f ^^d*, ""o^n.ced that Ottoman poetry has "asubtle esoteric spiritual signification ' "l ^^fu"?^°^•"^•" ^i" touch a g^Sul chord u, the bosom of many a youn? kdv who has occupied an ottomai wifh he^r fulminating compound it was that hvsted the poetry out of him. ' A MobDe merchant objects te beinecaUed KIDNEYS, OYErTSdIRIWRY 0R6AHS THE BEST BLOOD PURIFIER. There 1« •â- Â«T*»« ^^^ *^.rÂ¥5i.!tSjf« ra.c can be cured, ud «*â- * J* 'Jf "tliH .he can.e-w^herever it •â- â- ?,'»«•. ^S. JFJ2 I medical .ntboriUe. .Ithe «»-7^««'"f «*** nearir everr dimtmati ia caoaed by deraaxed kidneVkor Hver.^* rc-tore th«»e UtereTM* „ the .nly war *£"•'««»' ^Si'^^^^iS rnrrd Here iawliere WAltNBK » "AVE iVKE has achtercd it« cre** repo»atl«n. 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