The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-05-21
VARIETY.

Depend not upon fortune but conduct.
Begin life with but little show. you may increase it
afterwards.
useful.
man never forgets an insult to pride or purse;
o woman to her beauty or love.
A man loves when his judgment approves;
woman's judgment approves when she loves.
Household TRUTH.-A mother-in-law in
tabishment is q good servant, but precious
bad mistress.
THE confession OF A FOND MoTHER.-Over indul-
gence, like too much sugar, only spois what it
meant to sweeten.
1t has been apty said of Colerdge-the intellectual
dreamer and sensual Opium-eater-that he was sim
guar mixture Of the god and the clod.
Dogenes being asked of what beast the bite was
most dangerous, answered wild beasts that Of
q slanderer; or tame, that of fatterer.''
dancing master, in renewing his solicitations for
patronage wished to express his obligations for past
fayors, when the printer made him say Most
spectfuly offers his shanks.'
Marriage resembles pair of shears,' says Sgd
new Smith, joined that they cannot be separated,
often moving in opposite directions, yet always pun
ishng any one who comes between them.
The editor of the BIoomin gton Qllinois) Times
says that he lately looked upon magnificent flock
of grouse and thought of u.s. There is accounting
for association of ideas. We shall be hand about
June.
late eccentric T..
cous woman by the following expedient:--"Put your
tongue out madam The lady complied. &c Now
keep it there till have done talking.
The dearer oats become the more horses get licked.
Dolson saws shilling raw-hide will give much
power to his gray as twenty-five cents worth of
corn. Dobson is becoming philosopher.
A Young lady says &C When go to theater am
very careless of my Dress the audience too at
tentve to the play to observe my wardrobe; but when
90 to church am very particular in my outward
n hei
neighbors dress and deport themselves
THEORY OF THE EYEs.-Dark-blue eyes most
common in persons of delicate refined effeminate
nature; rght-blue, and much more, gray eyes, in the
hardy and active Greenish eyes have generally the
same meaning as the gray. Hazel eyes are the more
usual indications of mind masculine, vigorous, and
profound.-QGarterLyR ReU'ew
Pumpkin PIES WITHOUT EGGs.-Prepare the pump
kin in the same manner you would when you use
eggs: take tablespoonful of -four to pie-mx it
with some millz-stir in the prepared pumpkin, and
when baked you will not be able to tel any difference
in the pies made with eggs and those made with
-four.
GAY DREss.-Beauty gains little and LONELINESS
and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire Lysander
knew this was in part true and refused the rich gar
ments that the tyrant Dionysius profered to his
daughters saying, 6 that they were fit only to make
unhappy faces more remarkable. .''-Ztmmerm0n
Tprtsvs.-There are many truisms in the world.
Take the following a sample in every day life -
One new bonnet will make young lady feel happy
very.
One {. funny man. will bother whole neighbor-
One goose hiss will disturb whole assembly.
One bad novel will waste whole reams of good
paper. ,:,oo,, o.oo
One iollv rows viii turn ali the inhabitants Of O
street out of doors
One pretty firt will make dozen plain girls un-
happy for an entire evening.
One song will set thirty people talking.
NoJ forf fbo Sal A
weary days of toll and care, and business anxiety,
how delightful is the coming of the Sabbath-the
wheel of Ixion ceases in its turning executions, the
stone of Ssyphis pause upon the hillside, the hack Is
ceased of its burden, the mind is lifted from the
thoughts of daily and ayocatons to the eontem-
plation of higher and more ennoblng themes The
Sabbath is glorious institution. To the beast at the
plow to the artzan IN his workshop, to the chemist
in his laboratory, to the professional amid his
books and to the author with his pen-comes the
Sabbath with like blessing unto each.
Mrs. PARr1NGToN ON SURPRISE PARrIEs.-sEThey' re
are very WELL surprise parties are'' said Mrs. Par
tnrton aying her knitting work in her lap and put
ting her specks up on the roof of her cap where they
stood like two lutheran windows with q southern
prospect. e'They're all very well where folks are
prepared for 'em-where they have the sandwiches
and cold ham all cut and dried, with the lemonade
in the COLLINS, and the coffee in the tureen all ready
to be turned out; but where they come like an army
hungry as bears and hypotheneuses and ready to eat
one up, with no provisions made or cooked for em,
heaven help us! it is trying. People may smile as
much they may and say they are dreadful glad to
see 'em, and all that but my opinion is that they
would be glad to see 'en good way of all the time
But when they carry things with 'em, as they do to
ministers, and surprise em with donations of dough-
nuts and silver plates, that is different matter.
When our minister lost money in railroad shears
that cut him off Short his parish gin him surprise
party, and helped him along surprisingly They are
good when they're managed like that. She STONED
beam of reflected sunshine came into her ewes
with binding force filing her with surprise as the
sun lay by the west but could she have seen the sy
look which Ike bore, the opposite corner, as he
thrust piece of looking glass into his pocket, she
would have no longer wondered That boy was evil
Gazette. .