Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-12-19


Ten females rejoice in having been elect
ed County Superintendcnts Of Schtlls in
Iowa. One voler in scratching n woman :
name from his ballot, wrote, " Don't wan t
kno woman in mine
\ happy misIuotation by young lady,
whose gentleman caller STAYED too late,
caused speedy good by. The clock struck
twelve, and she remarked Now Is the
witchins time ofnight when people yawn. 1
\ young gentleman in Augusta. Me. ,
lately made an evening call upon young
lady, and got rather shAbbily treated. II
was getting along toward nine O'Clock
when the Young lady inquired the time Of
evening. Five minutes to nine, was the
reply. How long will it take you to 90
home ," - Five minutes, should Judge. ="
Then, said the young lady. 1T you
start now you viii sc. home just at nine
O'Clock.
The man who ran against Abby Clifford
for School Superintendent in Iowa and re
eeiyed eight votes to her two thousand con
cludes that this is an of year in poltics,
and that there isapathy.
Rev. O. b. Frothingham. OF New York
expresses himself strOngly on the feminine
fashions Of the day. and in A recent sermon
Stiu i-lAltN Attitl 10 Auf extremity ol
their spines a huge and awful bundle Of
stuff by way of looking graceful, and to
the backs Of their heads they append an cx-
crescent capillary mass to compensate for
Nature poverty, or exaFgerate her baun-
ty.
Miss Augusta Larned, in writing Of the
Woman Congress, says the hest speaker
in fIyor of woman suffrage are unable to
warm over their old speeches like boarding
house hash, 50 as to make them palatahle 10
their audiences.
The Bath County (ky.) Ne,rs makes the
statement that 1t takes exactly 2lI pounds
of flesh and blood, thirty-two yards of dress
material, ninety seven yards Of yellow rib
bon. twelve pounds of cotton, twenty four
copies Of the NeicS, sixteen feet Of horse
hair, thirty-two ounces Of aour, two boxes
of red paint, ana bottle of night-bloom-
ing seriousness To prepare the average noun
tain girl for church.
They not only elect the ladies to Office.
ont in Illinois, bat they serenade them
alterward And the ladies make little
speeches and invite their lellow-eitizens in
80 lunch. Whatever are We a-coming TOP
\ New Haven miss who dislkes 50 mis-
sional sermons on account their length,
on beng asked if she would like to 90 and
hear the Rev Shehairai, meekly replied
that Shehadral-ther not.
Thirty-six young lady students in the med
ieal class in the Iowa State University re-
manned unmoved during q difficult surgical
operation recently performed by Professor
Mclean, who, in their presence, distracted
the greater portion of the jawhone of n
Young woman patient.
. She was a splendid dancer,'i are the
closing words'with which western news
paper announces the sudden death of the
belle of the village in which it is printed,
- and had been the fayorite pupil of our
popular master of the terpsichorean art. -
~ Much ofthc extravagant risk of speeula-
ton, observes writer in the Woman S
Journal 4" would never be incurred if wo-
men were consulted. That reckless and un-
.scrnpulons curse of money ana of credit
which sows the land, does not at all com
mend itself to the conservative temper of
woman.
Isabella Beecher Hooker of Hartford has
become the happy grandmother OF twins.