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STEWART’S STYLE. 
Mr. A. T. Stewart, says an editorial paragraph in 
the Brooklyn Argus, sets an example to the young 
men of the country, which they will do well to copy. 
Mr. Stewart is at his place of business at eight o’clock 
every morning. He rides in an omnibus when it suits 
his convenience. Ho goes to parties at an early hour, 
and leaves at a seasonable time. Yesterday we saw 
one of his wagons in which his goods are delivered—• 
covered with canvas drawn over hoops, his name 
painted on the box—passing 
from Broadway to Wall street. 
On the seat with the driver sat 
the merchant prince, as care¬ 
less of the remarks of others 
as a sensible man ought to he. 
Mr. Stewart got out in front of 
Drexell’s banking-house, with¬ 
out the consciousness that he 
had done anything remarkable 
or unusual. About the same 
time some young bloods alight¬ 
ed from a fine liveried estab¬ 
lishment. We happened to 
know the gentlemen as well as 
the former. One was a young 
merchant who does not possess 
$20,000, and owes five times 
that amount. His credit is 
marked D in commercial re¬ 
ports. The other was a gen¬ 
tleman whose father failed in 
Wall street two years ago, his 
crditors losing by his failure 
$400,000, hut his wife had 
had settled upon her a hand¬ 
some estate. The carriage and 
horses, of course, belonged to 
the creditors. But they, the> 
upstarts inside, the flunky on 
the box, and the cigars from 
which smoke was ascending, 
were shamelessly flaunting and 
parading the streets, while men 
like Mr. Stewart were riding in 
a baggage-wagon or wading 
through the slush on foot. 
Have Music at Home.— 
A writer in Appleton's Journal 
advocates a more general and 
thorough musical education. 
He says:—“The frequently 
adopted plan of waiting to see 
whether children have any 
taste or show any love for music, is a wrong one. No 
child would prefer practising scales to playing hall; 
and few hoys, if the cultivation of their tastes depended 
upon the whims of their ever-flying fancies, would turn 
into educated men. But all parents should first give 
their children the opportunity of forming a taste, and 
for its development trust to the aesthetic element of 
their nature.” 
The Wives of Eminent Men. —The wives of men 
of sentiment are not always the most appreciative of 
women. Jean Paul represents Siebenkas as reading 
one of his beautiful imaginings to his wife, who 
listened with eyelids cast down and hated breath. As 
he closed, the sharer of his joys beamed forth with, 
Don’t put on your left stocking to-morrow, dear; J 
must mend that hole in it.” So, when Sir Walter and 
Lady Scott were rambling about their estate, and came 
upon some playful lambs frisking in the meadow— 
“Ah,” said Sir Walter, “’tis no wonder that poets 
from the earliest ages have made the lamb the emblem 
of peace and innocence.” “ They are, indeed, delight¬ 
ful animals,” answered her ladyship, “especially with 
mint sauce.” 
In announcing the amount of funds raised for a 
church festival, a Hoboken deacon said—“and blank 
$2, and a friend $2, and fifty cents from a cross-eyed 
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woman. 
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The Amatuer Photographer. 
A few years ago a hungry crowd sat down at the 
well-spread supper-table of a Sound steamer, upon 
which one of the dishes contained a trout of moderate 
size. A serious-looking individual drew this fish 
toward him, saying apologetically, “ This is a fast day 
with me.” His next neighbor, an Irish gentleman, 
immediately inserted his knife into the fish, and trans¬ 
ferred it to his own plate, remarking, “ Sir, do you 
suppose nobody has a soul to be saved but your¬ 
self?” 
A Rochester flirt had an offer of marriage the 
other evening, and rushing to the hall, she called up¬ 
stairs : “ Mother ! am I engaged to anybody now ?” 
“Very Happy.” —A good story is told of General 
Sherman. One winter he was making a call upon a 
foreign lady, who had learned to say in very good 
English, “ Vary happy, vary.” General Sherman had 
a fall just as he ascended the steps of her residence. 
As soon as the first greeting was over, General Sher¬ 
man told how he had hurt himself outside her door. 
The lady smiled sweetly and graciously said, “Vary 
happy, vary happy.” The bluff soldier stared and 
said aloud, “ D-it, is the woman a fool, or is she 
crazy?” “Vary happy, vary happy,” was the still 
smiling response to his last remark. The General 
abruptly left, and the lady wondered why she had 
failed to interest him sufficiently to induce him to 
prolong his wall. 
The New York Times draws 
an attractive picture of an in¬ 
terior furnished according to 
the new fashion now prevail¬ 
ing in Europe, and beginning 
to be adopted in this country. 
Heavy rugs will partly cover 
the polished floors. Paper of 
some neutral tint, free from 
glaring figures, will stretch 
from the richly-colored dado 
at the bottom to the gay bor¬ 
der at the top. The picture- 
rod will not be of the eternal 
guilt that wearies us now. It 
will be painted some decided 
color that, will harmonize with 
the prevailing shade of the 
whole room. Before the win¬ 
dow's and before -the doors, 
which open outward, curtains, 
heavy in texture and subdued 
in tone, edged with strong lace, 
will hang from wooden rings 
which move freely on a slender 
wooden rod fastened to the 
sheathing. Bings and rod will 
be of the hue of the picture- 
rod above. The single curtain 
before each opening will be 
looped to one side; low’ book¬ 
cases, not over three feet high, 
of dark wood, relieved by a few 7 
chiseled designs picked out in 
color, will line the wall; no 
glass doors will disfigure them. 
One general pattern, varied in 
each piece, will stamp the fur¬ 
niture. Last and greatest, an 
open w r ood fire, either in a 
fireplace, or in one of the 
Franklin stoves wdiich still 
lurk in the garrets of the old 
country houses, wflll cast its cheery light over 
everything. 
“I’m going where I won’t have to cook beans!” 
was the farewell sentence of an Ohio woman who left 
this vale of tears a tew days since. 
When his wife discovered a bottle of it in his coat¬ 
tail pocket, he said it w 7 as Sozodont. She said it w r as 
all right, “ Sozodont take too much of it.” 
A Maryland man, whose wife dropped dead last 
fall, had the funeral put off one day longer to get 
the balance of his corn husked. He said it wouldn’t 
make any difference to her, as she was always good- 
natured. 
