We are gratified to learn that stove are being taken to extend to the army the advantages of coffee taverns, Everyone who has had anything to do practically with soldiers must be too well aware that drunken ness is the curse of the British army, and that very many men who have in them the making of splendid soldiers and. excellent ioned officers go to utter destruc-ability to resist the fascine ime much ha prove the condition of the morally, by provide of occupying hi more rational manner than spending it in the public-house; but it is obvious that there is still wanting some counterattractions to the bright, cheerful-lookin, accommodation held aut by it, and whic can only be enjoyeil on condition of contribute ing to its maintenones by the consumption of the stimulating drink in which it denis, proposed now to establish coffee taverns, where all the advantages of warmth, light and amusement may be enjoyed by th soldier outside the barrack gates without books, &e., for of the gin-palaen and heorshop, led that thes ishinents shall purely social, non-political, and unaect> rian, and that they shall aleo be gelf-supporting. 'Té is proposed to erect the first of them at Woolwi and a committee has been appointed to take the necessary atops to do #0. An appeal la made to military men pecially, and to the general public to 0 tribute to so desicahle an object by furni of the etiquette pi of her protégdes, who has succeeded in drafts, stated that they could anticipate only getting a hush: Unless the ho has eight crores in October-November, and yet Geen turn ished under her control and direction on the Jast day of October the Government probably, make so many recom-treasury bal amounted to Rs, 927,54,000.
1 that the young wife may feel very How long this atuta of things may Inst it is much tempted to turn the kitchen impossible to conjecture. It roots largely on room, the dining room into the drawing cwntidence which may be destroyed suddenly, collar, in sheer desperamin, and the drawing room into the coal with the result of an immediate dimiauti the available supply of money. So far consequent on deposits go, there would reem to be been given her, coun danger of reaction, The private depas two absurdditic which in the Bank of Bombay, according to the published accounts, were 272 late will probably 170 Io time in 187: undisguised humiliation Jakbs in 1878. The Bank of Bengal shows meddler may be expected to say what the 432 lakh at present, auninst 261 lakhs in young couple ought to have for dimer nnd 1879, 266 lakhs in 1878. The two ba When they should dine, Low they should be have now 704 lakhs of private deposits against clothed, etcotera. She may be listened to 431 Inkba a yenr ago, It is not to be patiently for a while, but after that her offi-supposed, however, that this state of Ciousness offends, and it is possible that si will continue; there must bea reaction sooner may he given to understand that she wi or later, and it will most likely come suddenly. be the more appreciated if she took less upon We shall one of these days find ours rebably as nual not the to profit' by her and that solaces her somewhat, All to bow the Rajputana Railway, are robbing Calcutta dictation must not expect to remain ofa portion of the trade in the north-west.—iacemingly impossible for her to love. those in the sunlight of her stiles. It Bombay Gazette who will not, in some measure, defer to her judgment and follow her lead. Even who
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