The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-05-12
Men and Women

Parson Brownlow used to boast that he had
never played card, or used tobacco, or taken
oIam OF liquor, or gone to theatre or wit
messed horse.race. He singularly does not
say that he never used profane language though
as much might be expected of him being
parson.
being, it was thought, whom Talleyrand ever
really loved-was walking one day with the
Prince de Benevanto and reciting some verses
he had composed. A man passing by hap
pened to be gaping. The opportunity was ire
sistible. "Hush, Narbonne," said Talleyrand,
you are always talking too loud" Talleyrand,
by the way, never said a smarter thing than
Carnot said of him: eff Talleyrand despises
men it is that he has studied too much his own
character"
ID. V. Redheld, the brilliant correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, is teetotaler. He
says mat during his travels in the South he ia
invited at least $50 times a year to take a
drink. He always firmly, but politely, begs
to be excused, giving as his reason that he
never INDUCES in spurious or malt liquors, and
ne describes in very amusing manner the
effect OF this announcement upon the average
Southern gentleman. First, he looks at the
correspondents feet, then slowly raises his
eyes, taking in by degrees his whole person
until he reaches the top of his head. Then his
eyes are slowly depressed until they again rest
upon the ground, when he steps back few
PAGES, and after moments pause says, with
tone of great establishment, swell, I'll be
damnedr'
Throughout the Empire of Morocco there
are villages where the elder members of the
adult population follow professionally the DUR
suit OF fattening young ladies for the matrimo-
NAL market of Barbary. The moors-like the
Turks and most other Orientals-give a de-
cided preference to "moon-faced" wives over
lean Ones and are more solcitous as to the
number of pounds which their wives weigh,
than about the stock of accomplishments they
possess. A girl is put under the process of fat
tening when she is about twelve years of age.
Her hands are tied behind her, and she is seated
on carpet during so many hours every day,
while her papa stands over her with a mat.
TaQue or big stick, and her mother at times
pops into her mouth ball of couscoussa, or
stiff maize porridge, kneaded up with grease,
and just large enough to be swallowed without
the patient choking. If the unfortunate girl
declines to be crammed she is compelled; SO
that ere long the poor girl resigns herself to the
torture and gulps down the boluses lest she
should be beaten.
The Kansas City Times must be given the
credit OF new movement in the premium
business which revives the interest, already
tagging under repetitions, of the ordinary sg-
ricultural lottery. The I'll mes has conceived
the idea of offering to its subscribers as prizes
number of pretty and amiable young ladies'
all of whom voluntarily offer themselves I'D to
be drawn as wives by lucky bachelors who be-
come readers of the Times. An ADVERTISE
ment for volunteers in the distribution, which IS
to take place In July, is bringing in scores of
responses. If the ladies are to be believed, the
man who draws any one of them may be salts
fed with his lot in life. Strange to say, they
are nearly all brunettes, II years old One of
them, a Kansas damsel, says: 81 am called
pretty good-looking, smart and stylish. can
cook and wash dishes and act the lady, just as
am mind to- Another gives the more i'm.
portant information that she will have a mar
risge dowry when she is of age A third is
sure that she has courage and dash, but as to
heI sweetness merely remarks: 'sLet the man
who catches me say for himself" Three girls
from Iowa submit their names and gravely
declare: "We can give vouchers for our pretti-
ness, intelligence and sweetness" A Missouri
applicant is also willing to give the best of
references. She says: "As for being sweet
and good-looking. can't say am either one.
but some of the young men say am" A
young lady from Kansas puts herself I'D like a
choice picture at sale with reserved right of
withdrawal 81 reserve the right not to accent
the old buck unless he Is respectable, and has
the 'chink to support wife," Far different is
the tone of a maiden who describes herself as
somewhere between 20 and q year old. and
exclaims, 81 am willing to abide by the rules
governing the drawing. as matrimony is only
lottery at the best