Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1876-10-14
FROM OAK GROVE, KY.
Tell me not-you can't deceive me-
Love is but an empty DREAM"
You had better far believe me,
Women are not what they seem.


Women are not what they seem.
Retiring from the busy scenes of
life, seek this silent hour to find
ease. 1 fam would say ease to the
mind from restless thoughts, that like
a deadly swarm of hornets rush upon
me, thronging no sooner than | am
alone, and present time past, when
hair, the robe that curious nature
weaves to hang upon the head, was
worn as becomes sane women to wear
it not as it is worn now, mutilated
and cut up into ''idiotic clipps, ma
MAC fringe" bangs" etc. I'm al
ways forcibly reminded of a maniac
when l see a young lady. that is con-
sidered sensible, with her hair cut off
till about an inch or more in length
and befrizzed
/ was with a lady friend to-day. of
whom, heretofore, | had had very
high opinion, and no doubt would
have retained the same if it hadn't
been for this shocking fashion. My
first thought on beholding her was,
made maniac of yourself with the
rest to be in fashion, and you've banged
it all. Girls do let your hair grow
naturally, and while it is growing do
Ike girl knew of once when she
was where her sweetheart's father was,
she pasted 1t back and he wasn't the
wiser, i. e. he didn't find out she was
part maniac.
The Oak Grove boys are fast re-
firing from the gala scenes of life to
give place to the new issue. The new
issue are springing up rapidly, in fact,
some few of them have reached that
delectable age that they can sprout a
moustache. Already do they speak of
the younger boys as those beardless
youths"
Not long since, one of our friends
we'll call him Jim for short-had a
spell of fever and was confined to his
bed a week. His friends expressed
themselves fearful lest his eyes should
become crossed, for he had peculiar
propensity for looking over his nose
at his upper lip. After he became
convalescent, he called for magnify
ing glass, and after gazing intently in
to it for some time, he exclaimed /:
Look, mammal" Fond mamma So
licitous for her boys health, inquired
anxiously what it was. With an air
and gesture of manly pride that Ma
poleon or Ben Butler might have en-
We'd, he pointed to his upper lip, Il We
sixteen whiskers. Hurrah y
One of our friends, one of whose
nieknames begins with D, and who
is characterized by his great antipathy
to the feline race, was at the Fair in
GAINESVILLE tightuaHy slight. What
ails (ales) him?
Not for this
Was common clay ta'en from the common
earth,
Moulded by God, aud tempered with the
OF angels to the perfect shape of man."
For the benefit of youths who suffer
with tooth ache, / will insert a recipe
which is warranted to cure. He had
been riding all day in sharp wind in
search of sage for seasoning sausage
for his sweetheart's mother. He came
in with very severe tooth-ache. His
/ iady-love administered all the RENE
dies she could think of in vain. AT
last, said he, she warmed her hand
kerchief, and slapped it on my jaw with
/ her own soft little hand, and golly
the pain was forgotten as if 1t had
never been. / felt as good as if |
hadn't had tooth in my head. |
never had anything to run all over me
so quick in all my life !" We fear
tooth-ache will become a pretty gene
raj complaint if Bob tells this tale
much.
Sorry to hear of the illness of Skip.
Hope he'll recover soon.
| had intended saying something
complimentary of Mr.. JAS. II. With
ers, but heard that he had threatened
Skip with thrashing if he put his
name in the papers, and therefore the
napte Of Jas. H. Withers will not be
mentioned by me.
J Oak Grove, KY, Oct. 8, rs.