The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
WOMAN,S WORLD,


The best band to accompany lady
vocalist husband.
Mem for Bachelors poor
Jones, who was missed so long, has at
last been found-n1GTT'ied
Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the
place to live in. Every wife in town
gets up and lights the fires without a
word of complaint.
=" How greedy you are!" said on lit
tie girl to another, who had taken the
best apple in the dish, 81 was going to
take that"
Grace Greenwood CMrs. Lippincottj
has purchased a lot at Manitou, Col,
near the soda springs, and will build a
Westinghouse there next summer.
"A gentleman the other evening OBJ
iected to playing cards with a lady, be-
cause, he said, she had such a winning
way about her.
"Shall I have your hand ?" said an
exquisite to a belle, as the dance was
about to commence. "With all my
heart, was the soft response.
Mrs. A. Viii pple, of Portland,
Columbia county, Wis, died suddenly
from the effects of pairing corn too
closely.
"A fastidious Connecticut gentleman
preferred to pay Sc, 900 on a breach of
promise rather than marry young lady
who did not spell correctly,
The young woman who never
watched her neighbor is said to be a
cousin of the woman who did not know
how many dresses her sister-in-law had
"A young man who proposed to a
handsome but heartless creature, the
other evening, suggested the very pop
ular poem-the Beautiful's No.
"A philosopher, who married a vul-
gar but amiable girl, used to call his
wife brown sugar, because, he said, she
was sweet but unrefned.
1t is now claimed that the architect
of the great "Chinese wall'' was a wo-
man; but a woman wouldn't do any
thing to keep men out in that way.
"A father living in Titusville, who has
two or three very courtable girls, placed
a notice on his front door one night
which read: "Shut down for 80 days;
no stove in the parlor and but one
lamp"
Mrs. Grant of Oregon, wife of Mr..
Jack Grant, late representative from
Polk county in the Oregon legislature,
shot and trapped 358 squirrels last
year.
Worthy Pastor: "What, not re-
member, your catechism, my boy.
You're better fed than taught, think :"
Boy: eyes,, sir. You teaches me;
but father feeds me-"
"A California Indian belle lately at
tempted to introduce the before-the-
fall fashion of nothing and hoop-skirt
as a promenade costume in the streets
of San Francisco.
An old lady named Brown has Just
died in London, leaving 81, 500 and no.
body to inherit it. This will canse
vast commotion among the two or three
families of that name in the United
States.
"A Connecticut woman has beer re-
ieved Of live eel which has inhabited
her stomach for years. Eels are good
but even liza TX Walton wouldn't have
cared to make fish ! ond of himself
The marriage ceremony among the
bushmen of Australia is very simple
and don't cost cent. The man selects
his lady love, knocks her down with
club, and drags her to his camp.
An Eastern paper, having boosted
of young lady who framed and raised
a barn, Western contemporary offsets
the enterprise by giving an account of
a Western maid who raised, and all
because she could not find her back
hair.
The Paterson On. J.) Guardian
says there is no place in the State
where drunkenness is so common among
women as in that city. Probably no
other place in the State cares about dis
putting the honor.
Mrs. Moore, an industrious woman
of Topeka, Kan, earned money enough
to support good-for-nothing husband
and bring niece to live with them.
The husband eloped with the niece and
she is now nicely rid of both.
Some men never lose their presence
of mind. In Milwaukee last week, a
man threw his mother-in-law out of
window in the fifth story of burning
building, and then carried a feather
bed down stairs in his arms.
San awkward complimentary
Flirtington (coquettishly ID am afraid
you are bored, Mr.. AmOret! You would
sooner be walking with some young
lady!' Mr.. Amoret with native readi-
ness and gallantry)-" oh, no, indeed,
Mrs. Flirtington. III much prefer
the older ones!'
There is story that a handsome
lady named Miss Moss, whose father is
to hold high official position
under the British Government, reached
Tenn, recently, having trav-
eled from the mother country to meet
and wed her aflianced lover who had
preceded her several months and is
resident of the above named town.
1t is practicable to make home so
delightful that children shall have no
to wander from it or prefer
any other place; it is possible to make
it so attractive that it shall not only
firmly hold its own loved ones, but shall |
draw others into it's cheerful circle. |
Let the house, all day long, be the |
scene of pleasant looks, pleasant words, |
kind and affectionate acts; let the table |
be the happy meetingplace of merry |
group, and not a dull board, where
silent, if not sullen company of animals
come to feed; let the meal be the time
when a cheerful laugh is heard and
good things are said; let the sitting
'oom, at evening, be the place where a
smiling company settle themselves to
books or games till the round of good
hight kisses are in order; let there be
,ome music in the household, music not
Kept like silks and satins to show to
company. but music in which father
md mother and sister and brother JON;
ct the Young companions be welcomed,
md made for the time a part of the
rreup, so that daughters shall not deem
necessary to seek the obscurity OF the
,ack parlors with intimate friends, or to
rive father and mother to distant apart
nents; in word, let the home be sur
GOODWILL; then children need not be ex-
lorted to love it-you will not be able
0 tempt them away from it. il