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Show THE LADIES. Nothing is moie beautiful and innocent in-nocent than a tifleeu year-old girl on the sea shore trying to pick up gravel , witb her tons. A young married woman meudtd her husband's coat. She seVed the tail pockets up all nice uud tight thought they were holes. It has been observed that the lady with a diamond ring will scratch her nose, in a given period, (our times as often as any other woman." Mother: "If Mrs. Johnson comes, Jemmy, say I'm not at home." Jemmy: Jem-my: "Oh, 1 dare any! Aud then you'll give me a whacking lor telling a story." The Chinese women believe in metempsychoaiB, and when in the evening they pray to buddha they ask as their reward that when they die they may be turned into men. When a woman makes up her mind that a hen shall not set, and the hen makes up her mind that she will, the irresistible meets the immovable, im-movable, and every law of nature is broken or perverted. A woman drew a throng around her in the railroad depot in Springfield, Spring-field, Mass., by eihibiting a pet monkey wrapped up in a blue and white silk hnndkerchiel, and neatly ensconced in a basket. How to be a la mode, according to the Loudon Punch : The complexion undisguiaedly didguised ; square corsages openly cut to the heart; ball Ureases barely decent; skirts tied back with efiroutery. lirooklya young lady, lair aud covered cov-ered with jewels, was arrested or trying try-ing to pocket a $12 50 pair of kid shoes. She was by the police taken up tenderly, arrested witb care, fashioned so slenderly, but not on the square. A Texas court has decided that the old law against the intermarriage of the. racos is obsolete, the judge hold ing that the law was simply intended tor the support of slavery, and ceased to exist when the reason for it no longer existed. The girl whom King Alfonso ol Spain is to marry, in spite of his mother's opposition, is his cousin. She is young, very handsome, has dark but animated features, is tall, bright and lively, and dresses with exquisite taste. We decline, with many thanks, the "nocturne"eDtited"Mother'3 band is on my forehead." We think it would be more lifelike and taking if the author would change (he title to "Mother touched me with a slipper." Burlington Hawkeye. A woman who bought a stamp at the postolfice the other morning asked the engineer of that department depart-ment to slick it on for her. He in-qtrred in-qtrred if she could not stick it on herself, her-self, and she replied that she could not, because she was an entire strauger in Denver. In about fifteen minutes an Irishman made the same request, giving ns a reason that he was unable to read or write. Mrs. Alice Hagler, of Centreville, Ohio, was attempting to kindle a fire with kerosene the o:her day, the while telling a neighbor that she had dreamed that she was burned to death by coal eil while trying to kindle a fire. She remarked further that she had no faith in dreams, and just as she fiu-i fiu-i ished the sentence the oil can exploded, ex-ploded, and she was latally burned. Women who use high-heeled shoes i Bhould know that the practice pre vents the natural relations of the articulation and the muscular action, transposes the individual functions of the oscalts and the plaotor arch, the consequence of which is injury to the malleloue; intUmmalion ensues in the calcaneocuboid articulation, and it requires great care to prevent the displacement of the articular surfaces. That ought to care any woman out of her high-heeled boots. |