Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1854-10-26

Proverbs for Women.

at hand; when women use washes to their
complexion, it is a true sign that the beauty
of their day is gone.
Many powder their faces that their skin
may seem white; it is a poulterer that fours
an old hen, that it may pass for tender
chicken.
The stepping stone of fortune is not to be
I found an jewellers shop.
How many women have been ruined by
diamonds; as bird-catchers entice the lark
from heaven to earth with sparkling glass.
Like the colored bottles in chemists win
dow, is the rouge on the check of a maiden;
it attracts the passers-by, but-all know the
drug they advertise.
Choose not your wives, as you do grapes
from the bloom on them.
He who marries pretty face. only, is like
buyer of cheap furniture the varnish that
caught the eye will not endure the frs-side
blaze.
The girdle of beauty is not stay-lace.
This is the only excuse for tight-lacing =.
good housewife should have no ucaia
When maid takes to spaniels and parrots,
1t means that her beauty has gone to the dogs
and that henceforth her life is a Jirdea TO
her
The mouth of a wise woman is like money
box which is seldom opened, so that much
treasures come forth from it.
Store up the truth, o woman Be charita-
bic unto thy fallen sister Initiate not the
stags that chase from their herd their wound
ed companion.
The wise wife opposeth wrath with kind
ness. A sand bag viii stop cannon ball by
its yielding, a good woman, is like COM
mon fiddle, oge only makes its tone sweeter
Self-Confdence is good deal of an institu-
/ ton. a brass face is about as sure to lead
to golden pocket, as If is to show up an
empty brain. Still self-confdence isn't al
ways associated with brass or brainlessness
We commend the modest style to everybody
and his relations.
GSF From the ranks of the bar have sprung
the noblcst defenders of innocence-the ear
liest and most steadfast champions of right
and freedom. From the ranks of the bar
also, have sprung nearly every candidate for
the gallows since the world began.
EEThe more good deeds people perform,
the happier they feel. Give poor widow a
nourishing breakfast, pretty girl kiss and
Glove of shawl an old fool little fat
terry, and the contribution box about couple
of dollars, and you'll feel as happy as a piece
of animated calico in the honey
Rs~It's the little troubles, says writer,
that wear the heart out. 1t is easier to throw
a bomb-shell a mile, than feather-eyen
with artillery Forty little debts of one dol
las each, viii cause you more trouble and
dunning than one big one of thousand.
He who knows the world VIII not be
too bashful, and he who knows himself viii
never be impudent.
Es-It is good to have ones practical sense
of the worlds nothingness refreshed and
stirred up anew by the sight of a deathbed.
GS- Self-examination is generally self hy-
pocrisy 1t is a tribunal where culprit, wit
ness advocate, and judge, are all engaged in
one interest-to pervert the truth.
Es-Give your children fortune without
education, and at least one-half of the num-
Der will go down to the tomb of oblivion
perhaps to- ruin Give them education, and
they will be a fortune to themselves and their
country 1t is an inheritance worth more
than gold, for it buys true honour-they can
never spend nor lose it and through life il
ever proves friend, in death a consolation
BACKBITER -''What is the meaning of {
backbiter - said a reverend gentleman during
an examination at parochial school This
was puzzle. 1t went down the class till i
came to simple little urchin, who said
''Pr'aps it be flea r
School KEErIxG.-''First class in mathe
MATES, stand up. What is simple division?'
please, sir, 1 know. Breaking BoI
Smiths cake, and eating half yourself"
Right, What is compound division /?
: Hooking the whole of Bob Smiths cake
and dividing it between yourself and broth
er
$ fright again. Now go out of doors an
i put your head against something cold, to kee
your nose from bleeding"
MA lady, on being asked to join tll
Daughters of Temperance, replied that sh