The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-02-09
CONNuRIALlTIES. i.

Thou Fiv'st me but thy cheek,,-a year ago
Thy glowing lip was pressed to mine in vain
seek the fullness Of thy love again!
No reaeon dc / ask that may know
why colby TINS thou meet'st my kiss; go
From thy dear side. and leave thee free to
One who may surer win thy fair caress.
] will not walt to check the richer flow
Thou COULD st not lavish on my hungry heart,
Nor will stay the jeal Jus watch to keep
My love would prompt, if Lingering where
Give now thy best to one who dares to reap
Such golden felds-forever more part
My life from thine. that l, alone. may weep!
Mock turtle-Kissing before compa-
Y, and fighting afterw; r Is.
The custom of throwing a slipper
after the bride is supposed to have
been the origin of shoo-fy.
A woman of twenty is said to be as
mature in her ideas and manners as
man of twenty-five or thirty.
A twenty thousand dollar residence
was Senator Chandler's wedding gift
to his daughter, lately married to Rep
resentative Hale, of Maine.
'Your dress" said husband to his
fashionable wife, willnever please the
men," "I don't dress to please men,
was the reply, "but to worry other
women
"What substitute can there be for
the endearments of ones sister" e4-
exclaimed Mary. "The endearments
of some other fellows sister, re-
piled John.
A Young woman only needs one lover
very much in earnest to bring around
her several others equally devoted, as
men are sometimes like sheep, and all
follow where one leads.
It was a common superstition In
olden times that a turquoise would
heal enmity between man and wife,
and that an emerald always grew pale
when danger threatened its wearer.
An Indiana bride vowed she'd blow
her brains out if her husband went to
a spelling school, where he would be
subject to the spells of pretty girls.
He went. and she died according to the
programme.
Several ladies of Troy, married and
single, are talking about getting up
society to oppose the organization OF
any more "lodges" of any kind In that
CITY. They claim there are too many
attractions at the lodge every night In
the week to suit them.
The charms of West Pointers, what
ever their color, are subversive of the
feeble barriers which guard the sus-
ceptible female heart. 1t is said that
the negro Smith is engaged to ten
white girls. One of them moves in the
highest circles of the Hub, while an
othsr belongs to one of the most aris-
tocfatic families in Philadelphia.
Itwas beauteous hayden,
Most Picturesque to zee.
r. Her architecture was brunette.
Darke as ye sloe was she;
But never having seen sloe,
Well take that back, for we can knoWe
How darke ye sloe may BEL
A man broke chair over his wife's
head week or two ago. When he got
to Jail and the clergyman undertook to
talk with him, he displayed a good
deal of penitence. He said he was
very sorry that he had permitted his
anger to obtain the mastery of him,
and to suffer him to do such an act,
because it was a good chair, one OF
those good, old fashioned Windsor
chairs, which was an heirloom in his
family, and he knew he could never
replace it.
In Poughkeepsie young couple re-
Gently got married. The bridegroom
gave a male friend the dominie's fee
in an envelope. Male friend put the
envelope in the inside breast pocket of
his coat along with another envelope.
When the time cameto pay, he handed
the dominic the envelope and depart
ed. Dominic opened his envelope and
found an invitation to Phoenix Hose
ball. Male friend had made a mis-
take, which was soon after rectlied.
The dominic respectfully declined the
invitation to the ball.
"My wife made my fortune" said
Mr.. D., a gentleman of great pos
sessions, the other evening, Shy her
thrift, prudence and cheerfulness when
1 was Just beginning"
"And mine, poor soul! she is dead, ;"
said Mr. R, a widower, lost my
fortune by useless extravaganza and
repining when was doing well"
What world does this open to the
influence of our sex over the future
prosperity of their families. Let the
wife know her influence and try to use
it wisely.
A Chicago lover went to visit his
girl one evening recently, but for some
reason, probably that the fire had ma
terially changed his condition in life,
she received and treated him coolly.
He remained standing in the parlor a
few moments, but finally made move
ment toward the door, remarking that
che guessed he'd CO." "Oh!" said
she, starting from beautiful condi-
ton of observation-disclosures won't
you take chair?" "Well, / don't
care if L do" was his reply, and he
took the chair, thanking her kindly,
and carried it home. He says it is
good chair, made of walnut, with stuff
ing and green cover-just what he
wanted. But he is down on that girl,
and declares he wouldn't marry her
not if her father owned brewery.