The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1877-12-08
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

KISSING the bride in church has gone
not of fashion.
TrIENs left fortune OF $4,000 to
her sister, Mrs. Croix.
You've ladies Just out of school adopt
very large angular hand in penman-
ship.
The Memphis appeal is the only paper
in Tennessee which fayors woman suf-
frage.
ELIZABETH OAKEs SMITH is pastor of
the Independent Church, Conestoga,
New York.
THE maid that loves goes out to sea
on shattered plank, and puts her trust
in miracles for safety.
AN invention has been recently pat
ented called rotary squeezer. They
are likely to become very popular with
the girls.
"WHY do you paintT asked violin
list of his daughter. "For the same
reason that you use rosin, papa." How
is that?' "Why, to help me draw my
beau"
IT is said the age of superstition is
past, but there yet survive many So
called intelligent women who would not
have new dress cut out on Friday for
the world.
WOMAN.
'Grieve not for me, my husband dear,
am not dead, but sleeping, here;
With patience wait, prepare TO die,
And In short time you'll come to l."
al am not greved, my dearest life,
Sleep on--liye got another wife,
Therefore, cannot come to thee
For must go and live with she "
In consequence of the hard times a
New York firm has brought out carriers.
inlaid with precious stones, costing SIS a
pair. 1t is false economy that induces
q woman to fasten her garter with
piece of Irvine, when the jeweled article
is so cheap.
LONDON Punch. Mistress Con coming
home from the seaside) =" Why, Jane,
what's become of the bullfinch" Jane
"Well, you see, MN, it didn't sing
much and looked droopin' like, so cook
put it out of misery, an | 'ad it stuffed
for my at!"
THE widow Of the late Duke Galliera,
of Genoa, is employing part of her i'm
mense wealth in building two magnlfi-
cent hospitals for that city. Her hus-
band, before his death, gave 81, 100000
toward remodeling the port, and this
work is now rapidly progressing.
TIE beautiful Princess of Wales
wears over die whole top Of her head a
large piece of false hair, arranged in
mass of tiny eurls and erinklets, from
her forehead back to where it meets the
pufis of her back hair. The false piece
is called a scalpette, and was invented
for the Princess.
THERE is a young lady of Hartford,
Connecticut, who is wooed by an old man
and his son, yet she does not know her
own mind well enough to accept either.
The son is about her own age and poor,
while the father is rich and has rescued
her from a life of poverty by adopting
her as his daughter.
WHAT is a home without wife? She
is the lamp that destroys darkness-the
angel putting loneliness to fight; and is,
or may be, the dispenser Of every bless
ing the mind of man may conceive, or
the soul sigh for. Home without wife
is no home at all, it is strange land "
"a head without brains-a heart with
out conscience-a ship without sails
an ocean without waves-a world with
out religion.
The wife of Pennsylvania clergy
man, when dying recently, called him
to her bedside and said: Don't grow
morbid when / am gone. Go into
society, be cheerful, and let no regard
for my memory check you when you see
fit to marry again. 1t is my wish; the
children must be cared for; you will
need helper in your work. You can
not live alone, your temperament is all
against it; only choose cheerful wo-
man, and teach her to love our children.
Don't answer me, and don't be governed
by what the world says or thinks"