Norfolk day book. [volume] (Norfolk and Portsmouth Va.) 1868-1880, 1869-08-28
BLASTS FROM AN OLD RAMS
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ORIGINAL AND "STOLEN. {"
By oUIBoB.

There is great difference between ex
travagance and taste in dress. You car
dress with perfect taste and yet be in the
tip of fashion. 1t is knowledge of the fash.
ions and good taste that saves you your
money. 1t is the duty of every woman to
look as pretty as she can, and suit able
yet tasteful dress adds greatly to beauty.
In China, if a young man is not married
by the time he is twenty years of age, he is
drummmed out of town. Exch ange.
1fsuch was the case in this country, what
an ungodly amount of drumming would be
done in Norfolk. The exodus of Young
America would be alarming.
The following lines are peculiarly appli
cable to the young men of Norfolk, who
make convenience of the house of God by
congregating therein, for the indulgence OF
merely carnal pleasure-to hear the fine
singing, see the pretty girls, de-, and who
leave the church just before the sermon;
viz:
When once thy foot enters the church, bs.
ware,
God is more there than thou; for thou art
there
Only by his perm ission. Then beware,
And make myself all reverence and fear.
Let vain and busy thoughts have there no
part;
Bring not thy plough, thy plots, thy pleas
ure thither,
Christ purged his temple-so must thou thy
heart;
All worldly thoughts are but thieves met
together
To cozsn thee. Look at thy actions well,
For churches either are our heaven or
bell.
With all seriousness Qaibob admonishes
the young men to heed the above lines.
There are great many fools in the world
he who would avoid seeing one must lock
himself up in room and break his looking
glass.
There continues to be much speculation
about tho coming comet. An exchange
says it has been seen, but without TAIL
Our devil is of the opinion that there are
too many TALES about it already, and thinks
that it will appear with the Grscian bend.
In direct opposition to the above, a
young fair creature, whose eyes outshins
comet, writes us from the Receiving Ship
New Hampshire as follows:
In one of your city contemporaries saw
an item concerning the comet-sup posing
it to be "a tiz,' as no one had seen it. The
energetic brick-dust- color haired reporter
of the same, who is of this opinion,
failed to. learn from the lips of two of
Portsmouth's fairest daughters and myself,
that we have had the sole and extreme
pleasure of witnessing the great phenome.
non of the heavens, which has caused 80
much excitement and loss of rest. Yes,
Misses b and =, and myself.
while contemplating the heavens, about
ll1a o'clock, few evenings since, traced
In the Northern sky the object of Such
special interest, which seemed so secluded
to all-even to our reporters, whose eyes are
always among the 'brightesp- discerned
the comet from aportico in the said Sister
city by the sea- and we are astonished
that it should have gone unobseryed bv
you Gas general thing) live reporters.
Who knows but that these same young
ladies were deceived by the bright light
that swings aloft upon the stern of the New
Hampshire, casting its silvery rays upon
Misses G. and F. as they trod the silent
deck, or mayhap it was deception, occa-
stoned by the blending of the loye.lisht of
eyes-eyes looking towards each other
from the shore and the ship. There is no
limit to the imagination. 1t can very easily
form mountain out of mole hill; so by
the same medium that light could have,
likely enough assumed to the fair ones the
appearance of comet. ALAS, how stranx e
is man, but what a stranger is woman
Local Ed
There is POOL in our city that needs
filling. Who will see to it?