The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-05-18
A wOnlan's Bonnet.

"A w Oman'S Bonnet.
JENNIE JUNE.-A lady-writer over this
signature, in that best of all papers the n
Y. Sunday Times, thus hits off the moral
of bonnet-it will do to read even though
its truth may be doubted by these who are
here pictured. ..~.
A woman's bonnet always providing
that her means are sufficient to CRAFTY her
| taste) is n sure index of her -char.aotor.-
Show me a gaudy bonnet, loaded with fea-
theirs and ribbons of all the hues of the
rainbow, decorated with japonicas and cab
bage roses, of bright blue and glaring vel
| low, and | will know its wcarer, before
see her, to be vulgar woman, loud voiced,
| intrusive and fond of show and finery.-
Beneath the brim of that little straw bon
net, with its band of white ribbon, its lit
| tie bouquet of halfopcned roses, and its de-
licate face trimming of spotless blonde, with
just one blossom nesting amid its purity,
| can only sec fair young face with eyes as
blue as violets, and mouth rosy and kiss
| inviting. tits young wife, perhaps, living
the first halcyon days of newly-married
life Under that fairy compilation of white
and green, transparent as gossamer, with
its soft, white marabouts and floating fall
OF lace, l can imagine pair of wicked,
dark, coquettish eyes, and mass of ebon
braids and ringlets, truly terrible to sus-
| ceptible masculine hearts Yonder black
velvet, with dropping plumes and drapery
| OF face, and just thought of white and
crims on about the face, belong to mamma
-matronly and plump-who wouldn't be
too gay for the world, but tells the milliner
to put little crimson upon her bonnet be-
cause he likes it. That is just as certain
as the fact that the drab satin, without
particle Of face-trimming, and no cape to
speak Of will grace the countenance of Aunt
Mehetible, who lives ''up to Tompkinsville,"
and belongs to a Methodist meeting Vari-
ours pretentious bonn IS, with multiplied
ty of bows, and perfect arbor of flowers
| and fruit about the face, are evidently the
property Of single ladies who have long
| since forgotten their birthdays, and ear
nestly wish that other people would forget
them also. And that gorgeous concern,
evidently made with the intention of Disco
| vering how much a bonnet could cost if it
tried. belongs most certainly to Mrs. Skew
ton, or one of her clique Laugh if you
choose but, show me woman's bonnet,
and I'll draw her portrait for you.
|
The IDEAL WOMAN.-The true woman,
for whose ambition husbands love and
her children's alteration are sufficient, who
applies her military instincts to the discip-
line Of her household, and whose legisla-
tives exercise themselves in making laws
for her nurse whose intellect has field
enough for her communion with her hus-
band, and whose heart asks no other honors
than his love and admiration; woman
who does not think it weakness to attend
beautiful; who believes in the virtue of
glossy hair and well fitting gowns, and who
eschcws rents and raveled edges, slipshod
shoes and audacious makeups; a woman
who speaks low and does not speak much !;
who is patient and gentle, intellectual and
Industrious; who loves more than she rca-
sons, and yet does not love blindly; who
never scolds and never argues, but adjusts
with a smile; such a woman is the wife we
have all dreamed Of once in our lives, and
is the mother we still worship in the back
ward distance of the past.-CAarles Dick
| ems.
That Armstrong gun, the British
have got hold Of, is a roarer. A 80 pound
er, with q charge Of five pounds Of pow
der, attained range of over five miles and
quarter, and could hit an object at 900
yards every shot, which an ordinary gun
could only hit once in fifty-seven times,
while at 5000 yards its accuracy was as
seven to one compared with that of COM
mon artillery at 1000 yards. As to its
durability, the gun WAS fired 800 times
without the slightest injurious effect. II
we have said anything that has offended
Mrs. Victoria, we humbly ask her pardon,
and will make any apology required, If she
will only keep her Armstrong play at
home. But, should she prove relentless,
we shall borrow Kouis Napoleon's rifle can
non for defense. That at 1858 yards (near-
ly two miles, can strikea single man on
horseback, aud at that distance would des-
troy body Of cavalry or infantry. So.
'if worst comes to worst" look out for