The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-06-15 00:00:00

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Row TO ERADIOATI WIIIDS.--Kerry a widow.
The shortness of life is very often owing to the
irregularities of the fiver.
THI FATE Or CRAVE{ Clever men" cad Lady
"is a papal rule, do choose tho oddest wives I
The cleverer the man is, the more sully, I do bailors, a
women OM take him in."— Ballow Lytton.
THE YOUNG BOTASHIT,—Theee who really wish to
preserve their plants should get. "botanical box," that
Ii a box similar to what are oalled sand wioh•boxes, only
on a larger scale. Thes• boxes, made of jepenned tin,
are proeureble in my tarp town. It is • mistake to pt
this box too small; hotakithe have it eighthen Inches in
lergth, and it Is of Milano if less than. foot, unless
indeed, it bee small pocket-box, for small plants. The
width of the large box Is from six to eight inches, and
lie depth four. It should be convex, the door fly/toning
by a eliding bolt of wire. In addition to the box, both.
nists Gerry a portfolio, or light boards containing drying
piper; for preserving come plants which easily shed
their blossoms this is useful. IPOT getting plants up by
the roots, a stout large knife, at least, should be used ;
but where the equipment is complete, a short "digger'
or hand "spud," is carried. Such are the few simple
preparations by means of which many a beautiful tenant
of the wild may be gathered In perfection, —carried
safely home, and presorted, • record end a reference for
years.—Wild Flowers, by spencer Thomson, M.D.
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HOW TO CO:ITEMS WILL WITH WOHICH.— In order
to morons well with women it is not necessary to
know anything, though of mune knowing something
makes it easier. If you listen well, look interested, and
follow the expression of the eyes you are talking to as
near as you can with your own ; if you never hazard a
remark you are not pretty sure of, and only in places
where your talker's knowledge seems washed ; if in
your dealings with women (who, on proper anoourage.
mint are almost all loquacious), you adopt, in listening,
an air of courtly deferenoe for the sex mingled with an
assumed condescension of the male kind ; if, above all,
you veil your commonplace in mysterious reserve, you
may manage to talk and act a very tolerable bass ao-
oompaniment, to which they will cheerfully trill away
their treble prattle, and ten to one find you • most in•
teresting oompanion. Your young men of talent who
love the sound of their own voices are almost offensive
to women. If you speak out to • woman you ten to
one offend her prejudices or hurt her vanity. To win •
woman's afteotions it is usually quite sufficient to inake
her think that you appreciate her, which is done by
giving her sympathetic opportunities of setting herself
out before you in all her most attractive points in ;
if you do this skilfully she will soon love you as she loves
her looking-glius. Bot your clever fellows moony make
the most fatal mistake in the world. What they are
bothering and driving at is to make the poor dear CPU-
tare appreciate them. Then, as both partiee are aiming
at the same thing, there is • struggle, and they nettle
one another's vanity, which is very good sport for
bystanders. But it is a death blow to a woman's re-
spect for • roan to see that she oan nettle his vanity ;
and I must allow this in favour of the women, that they
are very little inclined to love a man whom they don't
respect; whereas men very often fall violently in love
with women for whom they have the greeted contempt.
But, on the other hand, it must equally be confessed
that women often have a great deal of respect for very
contemptible fellows.—Ths Money Bap.