The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-29
AROUT WOMEN.

ABOUT WOMEN.
Lady to the waiter-Don't put that ice
into the goblet with your fingers. Waiter
-Lor, msam, don't mind, my hands are
very warm.
A Wilkesbarre lady has recovered fifteen
hundred dollars damages from the city
authorities for having broken an arm in
falling on defective pavement.
"I was going 70 give her nice present,
too" said a sweet child of six years to the
sister of recent bride, "but mamma said
she thought we had done about enough for
her."
A Cuban woman commands detachment
of the rebel army. She leads the insur-
gents in person, dressed in riding habit,
and mounted on fine horse, and Is as
brave as lion.
A Duluth girl married a young man be-
cause he lifted his hat so beautifully as he
passed her. She got a divorce because he
lifted the table so beautifully when the din
ner didn't suit him.
Said New York dry goods dealer: "Of
course we lose money on every piece of
those goods; but, my dear madam, we sell
such enormous quantities of Them" Will
the political economist explain?
A Pennsylvania girl has coughed up
shawl pin worth 80 cents, and several
shrewd business men are waiting to hire her if
she can succeed in coughing up Yankee no
tions enough to make it an object.
An editor illustrates the prevailing ex-
travagsnee of people, nowadays, by calling
attention to the costly baby carriages in
use, while, when he was baby, they hauled
him around by the hair of his head.
A bright little girl having been desired to
write sentence introducing the word Gear
rion," presented the following to her
teacher: "Bad children often csrrion in
church when they ought to be quiet"
Mamma Ito Ethel, on the way to the lat
ter's first psrty)-"Now, mind, darling, If
you see any nice things on the table that
you'd like to eat, you musn'd ask for themV
Ethel-"Oh, no, mamma, I'll take themv'
May-"Msmms, do let us have another
wedding soon." Mamma (who does not
like parting with her daughters), "Don't
talk of such a thing my darling" May-"I
mean let's have another wedding and leave
out all but the cake, you know"
AQuakertown man has solved Mrs. Liv-
ermore's query: "Whst shall we do with
our daughters?" He has purchased two
washing machines, and will take in wash
ing. His wife and seven daughters are to
business.
The other day when a Detroit woman
asked her husband to bring home bar of
soap when he came home to dinner, he ex-
claimed: "What! is that bar gone so quick?"
ats all gone" she replied, shut 1 was as
saving as could be. haven't washed the
children for i've days past, so as to make 1t
last the week out"
They do some things better in France;
vide the following neat way of putting it,,
from Partisan paper: "The Princess de M.
is about to retire from society for a little
while, and is buying edgings, insertings,
muslins, and so on, which she Is making
up into little garments, too large for a doll
and too small for herself"
As boy was going down street, q wo-
man opened the front door of house and
called, "John, John, Johnf" As the boy
paid no attention to the calls, pedestrian
said to him, "Here, bub, your mother is
calling you" "No, she isn't" replied the
lad, as he turned the corner; "she's only my
fathers second wife, and 1 want her to un-
derstand that she can't run me-"
The Louisville Ledger makes this point
which we commend to the serious reflection
oil everybody: 1t is we'll settled principal Of
criminal law, that any person who receives
stolen goods, kno wing them to be stolen, Is
equally guilty with the thief. AS large
portion of the money stolen by the whisky
ring was received and used for the benefit OF
the radical party, it Is equally guilty with
the thieves.
A Berlin correspondent writes: SIN 1870
the German women decided that thereafter
they would never use chignons and other
French modes and fashions. The decision
was maintained during the war, but that
once over, and the fashion mill again
started, the German fair sex couldn't with
stand the pressure, and again applied IN the
proper quarter for bonnets and dresses
The male purists of Germany are quite be-
side themselves over this feminine tickle
ness"
The attention of young women in hurry
to marry something may well be called to
the advertisement of Mrs. Annie Jackson
OF San Francisco. In answer to the adver-
tisement of Mr.. ]. she says: "I will leave 1t tc
the public to judge whether / left my bed
and board without any just cause or provo
cation. Whisky, as used, was the cause.
was compelled to leave my home suddenly
on Monday night last or lose my life. Will
my babe in my arms took refuge In {
friends house, where 1 remained all night
Next morning 1 went home and the furDi
ture man had my bed and board carrying
them out. That Is the way left nay Bee
and board"