The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-06-27

! When past the out er harms,
/ rest by my own hearth-fre,
! And my child is in my arms
Shirley Dare.
THE only ring that should be tolerated
| The wedding ring.
| PANNIER-A g waist basket 3" for back
numbers of old newspapers.
WHY is a lovely young lady like a
hinge ?-Because she is something to
adore
OAN a gentleman who sees a lady
home under an umbrella be fitly desig-
mated as a rain beau?
A oHNIo describes marriage as an altar
on which man lays his wallet and wo-
man her affections.
A YOUNG husband calls his wife
Birdie, " beoause, he says, she is al
ways associated in his mind with bill.
A PEORIA man says that his wife's
tongue wears out so many sets of false
teeth that the dentists bills have nearly
broken him up.
OUR hen-pecked remarks with surprise
that when his wife is we'll enough to
" get round she Immediately resumes
her wrangles.
FooT-BALL, according to the newspa-
pers, is becoming a popular game all
over the country. Boston girls claim
| to be the most skillful.
A GooD-IOoKING female doctor has
settled in Charlotte, Michigan, and
every man in town is taking pills by the
quart, at two cents per pill.
TWENTY students of the Pittsburg
female college having become converted
declare their determination to firt with
none but young divinity students here
after.
A CAIRO man warns people not to
trust his wife, and she retorts by saying
that he'll go without clothes all summer
before she'll take in washing to rig him
out again.
AN honest lover in Massachusetts, has
given to his prospective father-in-law
load of wood to replace that consumed
during his evening "sparking" visits
last winter.
A Boston paper tells this A lady
called at a drugstore and breathlessly !
remarked "There I have serenaded !
all the way down here to get recipe |
prescribed, and disremember the COM
bustibles -
SOME one calls the Grace of American |
women indolent ;" whereupon one of
them retorts "I wonder if that man
ever reflected upon the amount of shop
ping we do, and the willingness with
which we do it ?"
A PEORIA girl, on her marriage, sold |
her piano and bought a sewing machine |
and material enough to make full suits |
for her husband and herself, and |
strightway went to work making them |
up. Her sisters are already married. |
THERE are people who still hold that
a woman on the battlefield would be an
absurdity but they never saw a brave
woman, in bloomer costume, going
through a crowded street and preserv-
ing throughout the walk placid coun-
tenance.
The audience at a Chicago theater
were disposed to be hilarious, the other
night, when the wife of man who had
risen from his seat between the acts
and started for the door, cried out,
"Where are you going, John? ?" John
was disgusted, but kept on.
A sAUCY young widow out west said to
a clerical friend who asked her cOndOl- |
inoIv. how long her lamented had |
been dead, 81 am IN the honeymoon of
nv widowhood. That widow Will be
boasting some day about celebrating a
golden funeral.
EXPERIENCE goes to show that girls in
school offer less excuses on account of
sickness than boys. Many times it IS
wonderful to find how sickIy boys are
when recitation time comes. As to ca
pacity for laying hold of the higher
branches, the same experience has been
that the best students in diferential
and integral calculus we're girls. The
most pleasing demonstration of geo
metrical problems have come from the
charming girls.
A GENTLEMAN of elegant leisure"
and bachelor at that, has been anus
ng himself with matrimonial statistics,
and reports that out of two hundred
marriages published in New England
journals last week, only two of the
ladies had old fashioned names, such as
Mary and Susan. All the others were
Mollies, Dollies, Pollies, Libbies, Tib-
bies, Biddies, Hatties, Patties, Matties,
L
hear of some girl with a familiar
q" christian name, he viii start for hex
An exchange says an economical
lady in Oberlin, Ohio, recently engaged
an old man, who has six children to
support, to dig and fix her acre garden.
The old man worked about week, and