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Show THE LADIES. j A young Hindoo bride from Mad- ras is tlio liuDCds ol London social circlea. Young liwliea nrc now creating artificial ar-tificial dimples by sacrificing their four moliira. Thirty female postmasters (!) liave been appointed in the lust three montlis. In some way they have ascertained that only one Iowa woman in ton wears a corset. Why are the Murys the most amia-ble amia-ble of the sex? Because they can always al-ways be mollified. A Brooklyn man witnessed the amputation am-putation of his wife's jaw las', week without wincing. Princess Louise of Lome is President Presi-dent ot the National Union "for Improving Im-proving the Education ot Women. Woodhull is lecturing in Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, and she has got so uhe can dodge a frozen pot-itoe nine times out of ten. An Illinois girl sues her father for four years' wages at $2 per week, and he sues her tor four years' board at $'2.o0 per week. One hundred and four winters hoye frosted the venerable head of Mra. Polly Bickford, of North Wakefield, New Hampshire. A well-known authoress gives it ae an item of domestic felicity, that the man of the family Bhould be abseil ; at least six hours per day. Mra. Jenkins complained in th evening that the turkey she had eat en didn't cat well, " Probably it wof not a hen turkey," said Jenkins. The bachelors of Brainard, Minn, make a collective oiler of matrimon; to any number of New Euglanc spinsters who will come and colonize " Well, Bridget, if I engage you I shall want you to stay at home whenever when-ever I shall wish to go out." "Well, ma'am, I have no objections, provid-in' provid-in' you do the same when I wish to go out." There is a town in Massachusetts where the merry chime- of the wedding wed-ding bella hasn't been heard for fifteen fif-teen years. The site of a doll baby there throws the women into hysterics. hy-sterics. " Don't you mean to marry again, my dear eirV" said a buxom widow to her neighbor. "No, my dear widow," wid-ow," said old crusty, "I'd rather lose all the ribs I've got than Lake another!" Rev. Gent. " But you really can have no nerioiiB reason to wish to be parted from your wife." Rustic. "Well, no, air, I liku my-, wife well enough, but. you see, shcdon'tpleaao my mother." They have a woman in Toledo who , cannot spenk without rhyming. The 1 rhyming mania seized her atu.-r a severe se-vere fit of sickness. It is something like this , It waW givo nio, MaiiMa, cnormom rr'iof, 1 It youM cook 1 tuso poUtvo md b-iL9 with tho boof. ) Or this: Mary Jano, iro rwht up s'ain and iwcop and make an bed. And do it miic ly, too, d'ye hoar, or ole I'll punch your heaj, Or this: r Ymi, Johnny, if ;-"u tonr yorr imrti, IM 3jg you till I toaku you datua. |