Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-06-01
Number 29

progressive views of life The wretched
Indifference that prevailed among Je0u
SIC to enlarged privileges must be dissi-
pated, they thought; and to this end they
proceeded to organize and set on foot an
organization that would accomplish this
end. The first thing to be done was to
pr' cure suitable club room; but tho
Varieties" the "Bosion," and other SIM
liar organizations, declining to permit
PRIMARY meeting within their buildings,
1t became necessary as last resort to
take hall conveniently located near tt
vcli Circle. This secured, a meeting
was appointed, and Monday night the in
itiatory members proceeded to organize
the Institution. The attendance was linn
tied, and only six ladies of an uncertain
age enlisted in the laulabe enterprise.
Rules and regulations were adopted, and
a miniature lecture on woman's rights
heralded the advent Of the new enterprise.
After this, Of course, refreshments were
to be taken. and the ladies evinced no
great reluctance in testing the virtues of
the exhilarating liquids set before them.
But their meeting was destined to
happy conclusion. The hall had been
for some time deserted, and the proprie-
tor had lodged in one corner the Debris of
several broken stoves, and an old cup
board or two. Those had been taken
possession of by an old cat and a growing
family of fcincs. Suddenly an animated
discussion was interrupted by prolonged
wall, like an infant in agony.
"Sisters" !" exclaimed the President,
"did any one bring baby?"
There was brief silence, and then q
shaking of heads all around. "
ave will proceed" said the elderly
sisters, welding the baton of Office, and
again the conversation grew animated.
But again the wall, longer, louder than
before.
"Sisters, whom does that baby belong
?" sterny demanded the New York
Sorosis.
i" Not mine! !"
/" Nor mine! !"
+" | should hardly think its mine p ex-
claimed an elderly lady whose life had
been. passed in meditqting on the perfdy
Of man. :" I'm thankful I've no such
crime on my conscience.
sis there any married sister among US?
inquired the lady.
The youngest of the numbers, blue
eyeI, meek looking disciple, confessed that
sac had been cnce, but wasn't now. New
ertheless, she assured them that nothing
unfortunate had resulted in her brief ex-
pcronce, and the baby wasn't hers.
1--WE viii proceed" and for time tho
icllnes were silent.
But the cat was only outstanding her
strength for a more vigorous serenade. 1t
burst at length in screeches that would
nav: rivaled bedam. = The hall was filed
with the discordant sound, and the ladies
held their breath in astonshment. Then
followed the short, quick spits the felh
srowls and screeches Of angry cats; the
old stovas ratified the cupboards shook
and the noise grew loud, and the uprt ar
dcafening.
SISTERS, either the evil one is among
us or that babys got the hydrophobia |
am going to leave )" and the lacy dartcd
for the door, followed by her disciples
Just as they reached the head of tho
stairs, the uproar broke out anew, and
the cat and her young scampcred across
the floor.
This was the climax of alright.
Shrek after shrek testified their hor-
ror of the situation. Those behind rush
Ell on those in front, and the whole party
rolled down the steep stairs, and reaching
the street, fed precipitately for their
homes the New York Sorosis expressing
her sense of the disturbance by the simple
ejaculation: Heaven help US! What a
)aby.' 3"
| "A Georgia Judge lately defined in
terms when man is legally drunk. Said
he, ut is not necessary that a man should
be va owing in ditch, or humping
his head against your posts, that you may
know him to be drunk, but whenever he
begins to tell the same thing over twice.
then he's drunk !"
o.
After looking down on New York
in an amasingly patronizing way, Chi
cago paper reaches the modest and COM
irritable conclusion that Chicago alone,
Of all the cities Of the earth, in al res
, poets represents the irrepressible pro-
grcssive spirit of the age, and must be-
come the worlds last and greatest metro