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Show T1IE LADIES. j Engaged for every set a hen. j A table of interest the dinner t.-1 ble. The sweet orb of life the honeymoon, honey-moon, i " Chicanery to palm off old hen as fricasseed chicken. j Powder meerschaum is now used by ladies as a cosmetic. Ida Greeley knows how to bake bread, sweep, dust, make beds, clean . house and eut over old dresses. j Many of the evening dresses of thin ; material are flounced to the waist, ;" just as grandmother used to wear 'em. Kid gloves for full dress now come within three inches of the elbow, and have the usual number of fifteen but-1 tons. j A very slight difference that be- ( twecn a fashionable woman's bull ( room toilette " and her bath room toilette. I At a Xew London, Conn., ball, the lady exhibiting the longest pedigree and train received a fine cliromo, en- I titled "Ailectation by the sea." J The excuse of a young lady to her ' minister, who caught her napping, ' was: "Don't you think that Indies! had better be fast asleep than fast ; j awake?" J . The actress known as Marie Koe. who plays the "French Spy" and pieces of tiiat kind, is a member of an aristocratic family in Indianopolis and was once a belle. California housekeepers have discovered dis-covered one little objection to Chinese Chin-ese cooks. Whon John gets out of spirits and discontented he is apt to peiaon the whole family. Drees makers generally arc reducing reduc-ing their charges. A few years ago ladies paid f 23 to make up a $10 materia), but we are not so rich (and so foolish) as we used to be. A Milwaukee woman, far gone with consumption, begged the doctor to give her something that would keep her alive until the verdict of the Bcecher Committee was published, j A young woman at Trenton, who! sleeping with her feet out of the window, win-dow, was Btruck by lightning and almost al-most torn to pieces. Since then the other Trenton women have kept their feet in. It may not be generally known, says a Chicago paper, that the enormous enor-mous arches that support the Chicago and St.Louis bridge were copied from a cast taken from the instep of a St. Louis belh. An Aberdeen authoress gives it as an item of domestic felicity that the man of the family should.be absent at least six hours a day, and believes that it is not necessary for him to carry a night key. A young lady at Council Bluffs, when informed by her suspended lover that he was going to cease hie suit, cowhided him all around the room, and as he disappeared through the window declared that she would teach him how to trille with a tender and loving heart in future. A gentleman, who was on a journey, became deeply engaged in thought, when a lady approached him and said, "Sir, can I open that window'.'"' He slowly said'l.suppose you can if you bring your whole mind to it." She quickly retorted, "None of youi palaver, sir, lor I'm darned sick at my Btouiaeh." A ynnng woman in MiiUllrlowii, Conn., is endeavoring to collect a million postage stamps in two years. . She has now, on the last three months of her time, 100,000.' Some of her iiriends thought at first that her scheme was a very wild one, and ollered her fine presents if she were successful. It now looks as if she would win the gifts, which - will be ponies, ph.elojis, new dresses, diamonds, dia-monds, etc. Marriijrc i-A i-A rast of dice! Happy indeed liU lot Who rcU a good wife, one of morals pure And withal easy temper; but al;ght on A ((adding, ffoesiping, eipcnsivejade, And Heaven deliver thee! There is not In the habitable globe bo dire a torment Ah this devil iu thu's clothing! . . |