The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1873-01-04
WOMANS WORLD.
NO MORE

NO MORE
She was a maiden for a man to love;
She was woman for a husbands life
One that had learned TO value far above
The name OF Love, the sacred name ofwife.
Her little life-dream, rounded so with sleep,
Had all there is of hfe-eXcept gray hairs,
Observation-Disclosures and devotion deep
And that mysterious tie mother bears.
She hath fulfilled her promise and hath past,
! Let her down gently at the iron door
Eyes. look on that loved image for the last
Now cover IL in earth-her earth no more.
THERE are five hundred female post
masters in the United States.
New YORK fashionable weddings now
come off an hour after dinner
DULUTH give fashion an impetus by
issuing birch-bark reception cards.
MISS KARSELL, Long Island woman,
is sengaged in exercising herself in a walk
to Omaha
WASHINGTON, anticipating the arrival
of Laura Fair, is organizing a powerful
Husbands Protective Union.
AN old bachelor says that a woman
may be surprised, astonished. taken all
| aback, but never dumfounded
A YOUNG man who proposed to hand
some but heartless creature, the other
evening, suggested very popular poem
tx Beautiful's No.
good winter quarters already pro rded
are quoted No. in the Olathe, Kansas,
matrimonial market.
THE married ladies of Hannibal, No,
have formed "Come Home Husband
| Club. 1t is about four feet long, and
/ has a brush on the end of it,
THE Harpers are utilizing an over
stock of railroad maps by sending them
over the country to confiding subscribres
to their Bazar as fashion patterns.
ONE day when Mrs. Partingten heard
the minister say that there would be
nave III the new church, she observed
that " she knew who the party was ="
SOME men never lose their presence
of mind. In Milwaukee last week n man
threw his mother-in-law out of awindow
in the fifth story of a burning building.
and then carried a feather-bed down
stairs in his arms
HEART-BRoKEN young man says no
one knows how the heart is pierced 10
the core when he sees a rival fellow
wearing a splendid tippet he himself
presented to the common object of his
affections only few days before.
GIRLS may be very graceful with a
tatting shuttle, and excel in working
Saxony wool, but there are two things
in which they can never equal the boys
They can't ride bareback, nor chaw to-
bacco. Little boys should remember
this and be happy
NEAT little gilt button hook, with
tortoise shell or agate handle, is now
carried by the ladies as glove fastener,
and is much superior to the hair-pin. |
1t sometimes has handle shaped like |
the haft of a dagger, and is worn in a |
Russian leather sheath, swung by a |
couple of gilt chains to the belt.
FEATHER flowers are the finest. They |
are made in Florida, and the new branch /
of industry promises to become very
remunerative. The flowers are made of |
the beautiful plumage of the white |
heron, while the leaves are taken from |
.he ae-2auet. They are already very
S---ti>>---> ladies'
= st sssize< ss.s:vs-.s., srlao
Was recently married, has over one e'--.--7-ss-- ---7s--5
dred ladies in his haren. who attend on
the Empress proper. The ladies are ex-
pected TO make themselves useful as
well as ornamental, and from each OF
them is annually expected certain |
amount of plain and embroidered work. |
MINISTERS make regular daily calls at |
a clearinghouse block on Locust street, |
st Louis, with the inquiry, I" Anything
in nv line this morning ?" There have
been seven marriages in the past few
months. and from the number of couples
that sit on the cold steps in the moon
light it is evident that business has only
commenced.
WoMAN's rights is properly exempli-
fed in Spain. A correspondent thus
describes the loading of the fron ore at
Bilbca: - 1t is curious sight to see the
women loading the ships with their
bulky cargoes, carrying it III baskets ON
their heads, singing gayly the while,
and tripping up and down the steep
planks with their short Petticoats,
brown bare legs, and straight supple
| backs"
An English writer has recently as
serted that IAN undue proportion OF
lime in the system is the cause OF pre-
mature gray hair, and advises to avoid
hard water, either for drinking p'ir-
noses or when converted into tea, coffee
or soup, because hard water is always
strongly impregnated with lime. Hard
water may be softened by boiling it;
det it become cold, and then use 1t as O
, beverage,
! .A1oU1svILLE man who had only beer
;. acquainted with his girl two nights, at