The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-07-27

Then my loves false and fed away.
"Why do I love thee?" Ask the sea
Why IL adores the moon
And ask the queenly rose why she
Dotcs on the month OF june
And ask the sun.tlower why she Turns
Her bosom to the sun
And All the dark nights londly yearns
For her most cherished one.
If SUI flower, rose and sea reply,
we do not know" no more know /.
All who the secret source can tell
OF love that long endures?
The charm Is uncomfortable
That draws my soul to yours.
only know that still my love
Is centred all in you,
AS constant rs the stars above,
And pure as morning dew!
Enough, though hid the cause ni2y be,
II love you-and you love me.
Girls, make q note of this remark
of an old, w%orn-out beau GA man
who most compliments a woman is
the one who most dcspiscs her."
1t Is suggested that the first piece
of music performed by Adam must
have been " warblings at Eve"
The ladies of San Francisco are
said to atone by their gorgeous toilets
for their lack of natural attractions.
Mrs. Stanton has been to see the
Hon. Ben. Wade, and announces that
he believes that women have q clear
right to vote under the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments.
The Empress Eugene has adopted
the little son of Madame Rome, the
Partisan Milliner, who was murdered
by the National Guards.
Song of the ladies at West Point {:
How | love the military" Song of
the Cadets: GLOW | love the mil
linery."
Evil you have me, Sarah 2" said a
young man to a modest girl. No,
John, but you can have me-"
A crusty old bachelor says that
"love is q wrctched business, consist
ing of a little signing, a little crying,
a little dying, and adeal of lying"
Avoid argument with ladies. In
spinning yarns among Silhs and sat-
ms, a man will always be WOrSted and
tWiStcd and finally WOund up.
Old Joe bikes, who loves whisky
and tobacco, says he is not going to
get married till self-supporting wives
are all the rage.
An Indiana county clerk has found
in his Office certificate which reads:
"This is to certify that |, William
Sands, is agreed that jim Brown
shall hcv mi Daughter Patsey to
wife this 18th of genewcrry 1911"
"Ahw said a Sunday school teach
cr, "Carolinc Jones what do you
think you would have been without
your good father and mother Il
suppose, num-" said Caroline, 81
suppose at ] should ha' been a hor-
phan."
A Boston woman refused to permit
her husband to 90 on q fishing eXcur-
sion, because he was very apt to get
drowned when he went upon the
water, and, moreover, didn't know
how to swim any more than a goose.
A Boston grocer, who excited the
ire of one of his customers by pre-
scnting at his house his bill for goods
rendered, was waited upon soon after
by q daughter of the debtor, who said,
81 wish you wouldn't come with that
bill when fathers at home-it mat.cs
him nervous to be dunned."
Happy bridegroom "Morc money,
madam. more money! Have you
forgotten that my money has
bought everything you posscss-thc
very dress you stand inw Fair
Bride "No, sir. Nor have forgot
ten that your money has bought
what stands in it"
A young lady of Louisville, having
received very urgent proposals of
marriage from m old gentleman,
sent the following answer by mail
"Why thus urge me to compliance?
Why compel me to refuse?
Yet, though | our not your alliance,
Pcrchance II younger may choose
For It's n state I'll no'er disparage,
Nor will | wal against 1t wage;
| do not, sir, object to marriage.
but dislike to MARRIAGE
A married lady who was in the
habit of spending most of her time
in the society of her ncighbors, hap
pcncd one day to be taken i'll, and
sent her husband in great haste for
a physician. The husband ran q
short distance, and then returned,
"My dear, where shall
1 find you when | come back?
Figaro represents two married
ladies chatting about their husbands.
" What" says IL of them, "you per-
nit your husband TO smokc in your
Certainly | dc, but lie
spends his evenings with me- re-
piled the other. "Ycs, at that price"
any dear friend, q shrcwd wife
avails herself of her husbands faults
to rcprcss his vices"
An elderly lady who was hand.
ling a pair of artificial plates in a
office, and admiring the f1u-
cncy 18th which the dentist described
them, asked him, "Can q body cat
these things?" "My dear
madam, mastication can be per-
formed with a facility scarcely equal
cd by nature herself responded the
%lentist. ayes, | know, but q a
body cat with thcm?"
A Cincinnati newspaper man. tind-
ne himself in the ncighborhoOil of
me of brigham lOumg's wives, and
heard of the terrible life the
,arious fragments of that compound
Entity lead, burned with an inhibition
reveal her woes to the world. lie
allied to interview her therefore, aud
Inc went for him in words to this
81 will have nothing to do
With you. | nm perfectly contcutcd.
get every thing | need, and have IN
'asy, pleasant life. Clear OUT"
A wcll-known New Orleans minis
er, walking along the street a few
since, met a lady for whom he
,a1 recently ncrfOrmcl the marrioVc