Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03
Clippings for the Ladies.


ov cot beistead.
Kitchen girls are now termed young
ladies of the lower parIor.
Going out with the tied-leaving
the church with wedding party. /
An old maids love-letter is called a
romance of the middle ages.
Brigham Young's wife has a cold
She sneezes by platoons. q
The Bachelors Toast-Large for
tunes and small waists! Il va
General Contributing on three
or four girls at the same time.
A Western girl likes to make bread
because it cleans her hands so beautiful
ly. N
Fashionable young laiies-like letters
require stamps, or the males reject
them.
The /. G. calls his wife a collector
of internal revenue, because she rifles his
pockets while he is asleep.
"A Buffalo lady wants to know why
the papers never harp on the subject of
"Fallen Men,"
The Wyoming girls can vote sat
eighteen-the Wyoming boys must
wait until they are 81, like the rest of us.
A New Yorker is out with patent
cushion for sleepy young ladies on the
cars-a fellows shoulder. IS. ..f
Alkaline Patti says she considers the
arms of a husband the best necklace a
woman can wear. +
Pretty girls are the guide boards
that point the way to the State of Matri-
mony.
A Cincinnati lady sues miliner for
breach of promise. She failed to finish
her bonnet within ten days.
-Tharo IL only one good substitute
for the endearments ov sister, and that
il the endearments ov sum other phel-
lows sister.
An Indiana maiden has been arrest
ed for " heavin' rocks" at the schoolmas-
ter in response to the sleeps eyes he
cast at Der.
"A married lady in ST. Paul, Mime
sofa, has been in trance state for
six weeks, and her husband won't have
a doctor yet. He says it seems SO
novel.
-" The superfuous blossoms on
fruit tree are meant to symbolic the large
way in which God loves to do pleasant
things"
Never conide in young man.
new pals leak. Never tell your secrets
to ed,-old doors seldom shut closely.
"A music seller was lately overpow-
cred by fastidious young lady, Who
wanted to purchase +" Mr.. Hoods song Of
an under garment"
Olive Logan says she never saw
pretty girl but she wanted to take in her
arms and kiss her. How natural and
universal
-"Wouldn't you like to be woman
when YOU grow up, Tommy?" "No."
"Why not 2" " Because women can't
turn somersaultsr'
] la, daughter of Horace Greeley, is
said to be as much distinguished for her
taste in dress as her father. Their tastes
differ, however.
Don't hold your breath waiting for
Minnie Warren to die, out there in Cali
fornia. The story of her unexpected de-
mise arose from some joker's assertion
that she couldn't live long.
An ole, lady gave this as her idea of
a great man: One who is keerfnl of his
clothes, don't drink spirits, kin read the
Bible without spellin' the words, and eat
a cold dinner on wash day without grum-
bling. ~ -+se>r
TO toast of "The babies! God
bless them" a railroad conductor res
ponded: "May their route through life
be pleasant and profitable, their ties well
laid, their track straightforward and
not backward. May their fathers be safe
conductors, their mothers faithful tenders
and their switch never misplaced"
"A gentle Quaker had two horses
n very good and very poor one. When
seen riding the latter, it turned out that
his better. half had taken the good one.
"What!" said sneering bachelor;
how comes it that you let your wife
ride the better horse?' The only reply
was: Friend when thee be married
thee'll know" das