, EVENING GAZETTE. ENTERED AT THE POST OFFICE IN NOR- WALK AS A NEWSPAPER. ‘ MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. , DAILY—One year, $3;‘.si.x months, 81.75; hree months, 81; one month, 40c. WEEKLY—One year, in advance, :51; Six mnths._600.; three months. 350. WEDESDAY. SEPTEMBER 14, 1898. VE’S RAMBLINGS. COMMENT AND"; GOSSIP AMONG THE WOMEN. BY ONE OF THEM. The writer of these lines has for a long time been in close touch with her readers, so close that frequently little heart confidences have been reposed in her and the broad, general friendship of editor and reader has merged into a warmer personal relation that has been the foundatiOnv‘sto'ne of a very . happy companionship. The other day, in accord with this sentiment and following the invitation which the editor has always extended .to her readers to call on her whenever they felt so inclined, a young woman scarcely out of her teens sought the writer at her home burdened with the weighty query “How am I to become a journalist?” Here was a poser, for we knew of no ‘ royal road to success in this field of labor, we knew no method, we could not guess 'at any magic necromancy of thought that could be" acquired by laborious progress or instantaneous hocus pocus, for as far as our knowl- edge went, journalists are born, not made. Writing that is acceptable to the public is a gift, not a talent to be bought, and so we looked our little .visitor in the face with a pitiful help- ;‘ciessness, knowing that our mission as .adviser was dissipated at one fell swoop by this frank yet unanswerable ques- 3111.011. Our visitor like so many who are .--.Obliged to do something, had turned to journalism as the shortest and rosi- -est path to financial ease. She had tried in her own way and Iliad failed, yet still clung to the belief ' that it was a. profession simply reeking “with golden coin that would tumble Fin-to her lap if she- but possessed the «Aladdin’s lamp of copyrighted knowl- ‘ "edge. There must be something in the paper the method of work, the minutiae of page numbering,’ something she hadn’t mastered, and so she conned books on “How to Become a Journalist” and stillif‘ound her contributions going begging??? . Poor little knocker at the gate of success journalism,dressmaking,acting, nursing, aye, even housework cannot be made successful unless you have a knack for it, a certain trend in that direction. . The in-born instinct, the originality of idea, the undefinable something that. is in-born marks the individual for the sphere and all the books in the world on the theory withOut the actual practice with its touches of distinctive “egolfgpannot make a. journalist or any other" worker in this world where marked success comes to the very few but where there are many fields Of use- fulness in which men and women both can tread in remunerative routine by meansof hard and persistent daily labor. Journalism may seem easy, it may appear the simplest method of obtain- ing thenecessarles and luxuries of life, but unless you are fitted for it the path is an uphill one and the struggle in- finitely harder than in those lines that seem much more prosaic to the girl with the problem of her living to make . staring her in the face. “I didn’t quite know what my hus- band’s attitude would be on the bath- ing suit question,” said the J uno-like girl who was only married last fall, to some of her married women friends before she went aWay to the beach, says the Washington Post, “and so I thought I’d try him.- ' “Some men are so funny about wom- en’s bathing suits, you know. I hate 3. baggy old bathing suit with no style ‘about it, but I didn’t want to buy one that George would not like. So I bor- rowed Mrs. Annual Leave’s. “Annual Leave is very strict in her ideas, you know, and her bathing suit is a fright. It is trimmed nice enough, but the—well, it is long, you know, and baggy and full Of draw strings and all that kind of foolishness. SO a couple of nights ago, while George was going over his outing shirts and things I put this bathing suit on. Then I went into the room where George was packing. “ ‘How do you like my bathing suit?’, .'I asked him. “You ought to have seen the funny inspection he gave me. “ ‘Do you call that shroud a bathing suit?’ he finally asked me. ‘And do you think you are going in the water ' with me with a hay-bag thing like that on you? For if you do, you’re mixed that’s all. Why didn’t you get one with a train While you were about it? You look like a papoose with that thing on. YOu’re all swaddled up. You don’t belong to any nunnery yetawhile you know. Just run down town to-mor- row and change that thing. It may be all right for my grandmother out in Iowa, but it don’t go for you, and you hear me. Why, you’d get the laugh if you wore that. What’s the use of be- ing built the right way if you’re going to make a show otyourself in a rig like that?” “Well, I didn’t say anything but, yesterday I went down and got just the kind ofa bathing suit I wanted, and when I put it on last night and show- ed it to George he said I looked like one of the colored supplement pictures in it, and that it was all right, all right. Before I was, married you all told me that men were such queer con- trary things, but I don’t believe they are at all.” ' M gay/(.1292 0%?“- V Feminine ' Chat. Nutting expeditions are now being planned.- Lot’s wife evidently suggested the expression "rubber neck.” Mme. Dreyfus certainly has the sympathy of every woman throughout the civilized world. A registered letter in a country post office causes as much excitement as the proverbial bull in the china shop. The person with false teeth has no fear of toothache, but he or she must have a wholesome dread of the ague. It is the woman with a Sweet disposi- tion who is regarded as tremendously “easy,” but when she does turn—look out! Until you lose the use of one foot. you never realize what a nice thing it would have been to have had three originally. Judging by the awful grimaces and contortions some musicians make, the term, “playing on their instruments” is misapplied. There are hundreds of men who think because .a woman accepts a luncheon from them that they have a first mortgage on her from that min- ute. The lot of a tnained nurse is particu- larly hard when the doctOr insists that she must tell visitors to her patient that they have staid long enough. The girl’s room that is deemed the prettiest by her schoolmates is general- 1 y filled with trash, according to her mother’s notions of decorative beauty. Reed birds are delicious, but there certainly is something very gruesome about the looks of their heads when they lie strung up in a row on a silver skewer. Not only were the tables turned on the Spanish during the late unpleasant- ness, but warships and every other old thing movable that they possessed suf-‘- fered the same fate. ' Talk about the harr'OWing moments spent by the wives and sweethearts of Johnny in battle—they are nothing to the agonizing torture of the relatives of Johnny on the foot-ball field. The woman who never uses slang in- tentionally often finds herself indulg- ing in the worst sort simply because so many common expressions have by usage resolved themselves into slang. Some individuals apparently regard a bath as a necessity in summer and a luxury in winter, judging by the great- er number of rooms with baths rented in hotels during the warm weather. TO RENT. 0 RENT—A large hall in the GA- ZETTE Building. Apply to Charles Olmstead, Masonic Building. N30 tf FOR SALE. OR SALE—House at Broad River, 6 rOoms and basement; new barn; lot 75x200; chicken house and fruit. W. E. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE Building. M8 tf nue, water and sewerconnection; barn and hennery. W. H. Byington, Insur- ance, GAZETTE Building. M8 tf FOR SALE OR RENT—House on Camp street; 13 rooms, modern im- provements; barn and large carriage house. W. H. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE Building. M8 tf FOR SALE—On Newtown avenue, a fine house of 10 rooms, hot and cold water, furnace, etc. Lot 95x400. Will be sold cheap if taken at once. W. H. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE Build- ing. ~ D29 tf FOR SALE—Three fine building lots on Wilton avenue. E. Wilson, Insurance, GAZETTE Building. N30 tf FOR SALE—Two building lots on Newtown avenue, 60x200. W. H. By- ington, Insurance, GAZETTE Building. , ' D29 tf OR SALE—One of the best building lots in the city; five minutes walk from Bridge. Water and. gas on street. W. H. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE Bui ldin’g. N30 tf nue, 6 rooms. Will be sold cheap. W. H. Byington, Insurance, GAZETTE Building. N30 tf FOR SALE—House on Franklin ave? ”OR SALE—A house on Wilton ave-l V \—- OST, near New Canaan, Lady’s black cloth jacket, made by Haas to Mrs. Earle, 178 East avenue, Nor- walk. S 12 3t WANTED. ANTED—Houses and Real Estate , to sell. W. H. Byington, Insur- ance, GAZETTE Building. N30 tf § ANTED—Contractors to know ' that the Fidelity and Deposit Co., of Maryland, furnishes surety. W. H. Byington, agent, GAZETTE Build- ing. . CITnYNOTICH . El 11' [l USER—1011 4 NOTICE is hereby given that Henry W. Gregory, City Clerk, will. receive, up to 6 o’clock, in the afternoon of Monday, September 26th, all names which any person shall propose to be added to or erased from the voting list of the City of Norwalk, to be prepared by the Board of Registration of the City of Norwalk, for the use at the City Election to be held on the. first Monday of October, 1898, a copy of which list will be posted in the post- office in said City, during the two weeks preceding such election. I ' City of N orwalk, Sept. 13th, 1898. H. W GREGORY, City Clerk, and Clerk of the Board of Registration. I I CITY NOTICE . MEETING ——Ol-' TH E——- BOARD OF REGISTRATION. NOTICE is hereby given that the Board of Registration of the '~ City of Norwalk will hold a public session at the City Council Room in the Fair- field County N atioual- Bank Building, in the City of N orwalk, from 2 O’clock, p. m., until 6 o’clock p. m. of WedneS' day, the 28th day of September, 1898, for the purpose of correcting the vot- ing list of the City of Norwalk, pre- paratory to the annual city election, to be held on the first Monday of October, 1898, by adding thereto,, or erasing therefrom, the names of all persons whose applications shall have been fil- ed with the City Clerk before 6 o’clock of the Monday next preceding, of whose legalqualifications ordisqualifica- tions as voters of the city, any two members of the board may be satisfied, by reason of personal knowledge, or by testimony under oath of two registered voters. . Dated, City of Norwalk, September 13th, 1898. BERNARD TULLY, the Board of WINFIELD SCOTT, Registration. H. W. GREGORY, Clerk of said Board. ‘ALFRED E. AUSTIN, gMem bers of Hoyt’s Theatre. SATURDAY, SEPT. 17. First Engagement of CHARLES E. BLANEY’S big success AHIRED GIRL Fun, You All Laugh Fun! and I Laugh Two ‘Big Shows in One! Prices,_25, 50, 75 cents. @Seats now on sale at Plaisted’s and Weed’s drug-stores. AT...‘ P. W. :BATES’ 42 mm smart, You can find as fine an assortment of Monumental & Gemllleruri As can be found in any Yard in the State. Look it over and get ,prices before going elsewhere Bros. liberal reward paid for its return _ N30 tf. OF NEW YORK. I RIOHARD A. Mémn'z, Brendan's. « Statement for theYeal EndingDec. 31:97. According to the Standard of the InSurance Department of the State of New York. TNOOME. ' Received for Premiums . . . From allother Sources . . ,_ 1 . . Sat-2.693.201 99 1194699406 3.4 $54,162,608 23 ' ErsEURSEMINTS. To Policy-holders for Claims by Death 4 . . . $13,279,630 66 To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 12,712,424 .76 ' . 30,132,005 57 For all other Accounts . . . . . . . , 5369‘349060' 99 ASSETS. United States Bonds and other Securities ‘ . . $132,017,341 45 First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . . . 69,423,937 31 Loans on Stocks and Bond . . . . 12,880,308 00 Real Estate . . . . . . . . 21,618,454 88 Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . . 11,705,195 82 Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . . 6,141,200 20 $253,786,437 66 Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities . . 218,278,243 07 Surplus . . . . . . '. . $35,808,194 59 Insurance and Annuities in Forc . . . $936,634,496 63 Ihavo carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to Incorrect; liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. cl-IARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be upportioned as usual Report of the Examining Committee. Office of the MutualLife Insurance Company of New York. To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD or TRUSTEES or ~ THE IIITIIII. LIFE INSURANCE ODIN“ OF “I YORK. / The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, on the twenty- 'socond day of December. I897, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company and to verify the same, reopectfully—-—-— REPORT That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have, at various dates between the date of the said reference and the date of this Report, attended at the office of the Company, and have been-'- Waited On by the Treasurer, the Comptroller,the Auditor, and the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of :such officers and have carefully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. They have examined and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared ame are carried in said Statement with the market quotations, and find the same not exceeding such quotations—in fact, in many cases below them. They have examined and counted the bondsand mbrtgageg on real property held by the Company, and find the same to be as stated. They have also. verified the valuation of the Com- pany’s holdings of real estate and have verified the depostts of money in the various banks and trust Companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the Cashier. And the Committee certify that all the books, papers, documents, and evidence of title of every description neces- sary in such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their assistants, and that the same are accurate, in good order, and well kept. , And the Committee further certify that the investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the system methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caging for the assets are entitled to commendatim, . Auof which is respectfully Submitted. CHAS. R. HENDERSON ELBRIDGE T. GERRY A. N. WATERHOUSE New YORK. January 21, 1898. S. V. R. CRUGER J. HOBART HERRICK JAMES C. HOLDEN the prices at which the S and Board of Trustees- GEORGE G. HAvEN ADRIAN ISELIN J R. GEORGE S. BOWDOIN . - WILLIAM C. WHITNEY WILLIAM ROOKEFELLEB JAMES N. JARVIE CHAS D. DIGKEY JR ELBRIDGE T. GERRY JAMES SPEYEBJ - Hmnv H. ROGERS Jim. W AucmNcLoss . THEODORE MOBFOBD WILLIAM BARcoox STUYVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD CHARLES 'E. MILLER WALTER R. GILLETTE H. WALTER WEBB FREDERIO CROMWELL J ULIEN T. DAva A. N. WATERHOUSE S. V. R. CRUOER CHARLES R. HENDERSON RUFUS W. PEOKHAM .J. HOBART HEBRIOK WM. P. DIXON ROBERTA. GRANNISS . SAMUEL D. BABOOOR RICHARD A._MOCUBDY JAMES C. HOLDEN HERMANN C. VON POST WILLIAM J. SEWELL OLIVER HARMMAN ROBERT OLYPEAN’I' GEORGE F. BAKER DUDLEY OLOOTT ROBERT A. GRANISS, Vice-President. , WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ~ ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President DUER du-P. BRECK, Corresponding Secretary WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary, , . FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. , JAMES TIMPSON.‘ 2d Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM I’. SANDS, Cashier. - EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier. _ EMORY MoCLINTOOK, Actuary. _ . JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary. CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. C. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, ASsistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller , ' J OHN. C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. , EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor. MEDIOAL DIRECTORS: _ ‘ ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' GRANVILLE M. WHITE. M D G. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting. NTOHOLS a. Stunner, General Agents. _‘ A.H. SAME, nasal. Agent. K NV "4
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