The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-10-29

ALTHOUGH mans qualities belong
more to the head, and woman's more
to the heart, yet it is not less neces-
sary that mans heart should be cul-
tivated as well as his head, and wom-
ans head cultivated as well as her
heart. A heartless man is as much
out of keeping in civilized society as
a stupid or unintelligent woman.
AN old lady ninety-nine years of
age, by name Daley, and called Aunt
Patty Daley, was one Of the COM
mittee on ladies' handiwork at the
Fair at Oxford, Chenango county,
this fall. She examined the work,
without spectacles, too.
IT is said that young lady Of
Avondale, Ohio, during stay of
three months in Pittsburg, Pa, last
spring, visited the Jail every Sunday
afternoon and directed the musical
exercises. She sang finely and so
delighted the prisoners that they
have presented to her silver goblet,
inscribed, ''Presented by those un-
fortunates whose sufferings she has
alleviated by her inspiring songs and
unselfish Kindness
IN ONE Of the counties of Ohio an
applicant for license to teach must
furnish the county superintendent
proof of good moral character before
that officer will consent to examine
him as to his other qualifications.
One recently presented himself with
the following Endorsement from the
township trustee: II can certify that
HAS good morrels. In fact |
think his morrels is too good. He
haint got snap anutft to teach school, -
A prosperous Princeton, H., mer-
chant has for his motto, early to
bed and early to rise, never get tight
and advertise, let your wares be
known if you are wise"
NORFOLK, Va, has given fifteen
thousand dollars to the Memphis
sufferers.
A CONNECTICUT farmer, who set
out an elaborate scare-crow in his
strawberry patch, was somewhat dis
gusted to find that a pair of robins
had built their nest and were raising
their young under his hat.
THE Utica Herald says that a man
will never know what effect it would
have had on Job if eleven little girls
had called on him one after another,
and tried to sell him Sunday School
picnic tickets.
IT Is still too much the practice
to cultivate the weakness of woman
rather than her strength and to rem
der her attractive than self-reliant.
Her sensibilities are developed at the
expense of her health of body as we'll
as mind. She lives. moves and has
her being in the sympathy of others.
She dresses that she may attract and
is burdened with the accomplish
ments that she may have chosen.
Weak, trembling and dependent, she
incurs the risk of becoming a living
embodiment Of the Italian proverb,
$50 good that she is good for moth
ing"
THINGS were affecting at Iowa
City on election night. The Press
man corralled Brainard of the Re
publican, the postmaster and his
partner in i fire-brigade saloon, sing
ing:
want to be a granger,
And with the grangers stand
Ahorny-headed farmer,
With 4 hayStack in my hand
And anon, his partner, nice young
man, with a good voice, joins in:
Beneath the tall tomato tree
IE swing the glittering hoe
And smite the Wild potato-bug
As he skips DER the SNOW.
When the postmaster continued:
I've bought myself Durham ram
And gray alpaca COW,
A lOck-Stitch Usage orange hedge,
And patent leather plow.
APPLE GRIDDLE CAKEs.-Peel six
large, juicy apples, and CRATE them
on a bread crater to soft pulp.
Beat four eggs till light, and add to
the apple, beating well together;
stir in pint Of rich sweet milk and
gradually sift in -four enough to make
a thin, smooth batter. Bake on a
griddle, pile on hot plates, and on
each cake put a good piece of butter.