The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-29
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THE Memphis Appeal is the only paper
n Tennessee which favOrs woman sui
rage.
ELIZABETH OAKEs SMITH is pastor of |
he independent Church, Conestoga, |
New York.
THE maid that loves goes out to sea
IN shattered plank, and puts her trust
N miracles for safety.
WHEN widow is married again she
may dress as she likes, but she must not
wear veil and orange blossoms.
AN invention has been recently pat
ented called a rotary squeezer. They
are likely to become very popular with
the girls.
"WHY do you paint?' asked violin
ist of his daughter. "For the same
reason that you use rosin, papa Chow
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.
NOMAN.
"Grieve not for me, my husband dear,
l am not dead, but sleeping, here
With patience wait, prepare to die,
And in short time you'll come to L.
81 am not grieved, my dearest life,
Sleep on-I've got another wife;
Therefore, cannot come to thee,
For 1 must go and live with she"
A FAN of solid orange blossoms, edged
with rose geraniums, was carried by a
bride last week. Over each green
capped spoke was a lace initial-the
semi-circlet of these spelling "Beloved
Nine"
AN old author quantity remarks:
"Avoid arguments with ladies. In
spinning yarns among silks and satins
a man is sure to become twisted and
worsted; and where a man is worsted
and twisted he may consider himself
wound up"
IN consequence of the hard times a
New York firm has brought out garters,
inlaid with precious stones, costing $75 a
pair. 1t is false economy that induces
woman to fasten her garter with a
piece of twine, when the jeweled article
is so cheap.
LONDON Punch: Mistress (on coming
home from the seaside) Why, Jane
what's become of the bullfnchp' Jane
"Wen, 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 'atp'
THE widow of the late Duke Galliera
of Genoa, is employing part of her i'm
| mense wealth in building two magn1fi
cent hospitals for that city. Her hus
band, before his death, gave 81 900, ,00t
toward remodeling the port, and thi
work is now rapidly progressing.
The beautiful Princess of Vale
wears over the whole top of her head
large piece of false hair, arranged in
mass of tiny curls and crinklets, from
her forehead back to where it meets tn
puffs of her back hair. The false piec
is called a scalpette, and was invente'
for the Princess.
/ 3, THERE is young lady of Hartford
Connecticut, who is wooed by an old ma
and his son, yet she does not know he
own mind we'll enough to accept eithel
The son is about her own age and poo
while the father is rich and has rescue
her from life of poverty by adoptin
her as his daughter.
SOME woman says: A brilliant ma
is always less brilliant with his wife tina
with anybody else. Why this is so
must leave to philosophers to explain
But such is the fact. In plain word
you can not marry a mans wit, bri
liancy or learning, for these belong
everybody. Love and attention from
great scholar are no more than love an
attention from blockhead.
WHAT is home without wife? St
is the lamp that destroys darkness
angel putting loneliness to fight; and il
or may be, the dispenser of every bles
ing the mind of man may conceive, {
the soul sigh for. Home without vii
is no home at all, it is 'fstrange land
"a head without brains-a heart witt
out conscience-a ship without sails
an ocean without waves-a world witt
out religion.
: THE wife Of a Pennsylvania clerg,
man, when dying recently, called hi
to her bedside and said: "Don't gro
| morbid when I am gone. Go I'M
society, be cheerful, and let ne regal
: for my memory check you when you 81
fit to marry again. 1t is my wish; tt
children must be cared for; you wi
need helper in your work. You ca
} not live alone, your temperament is a
5 against it; only choose cheerful W
: man, and teach her to love our childre
2 Don't answer me, and don't be governe
2 by what the world says or thinks"
;. Miss JULIA SMITH, the elder of IL
q Glastonbury sisters and the translator
. the Bible, has not allowed her literal
!, tastes to interfere with her housekee
6 ing. She cooks and can make carpet
+ Sixty years ago or so, she longed to {
to college, but as that could not be, 81
, studied with her father, who had BET
! instructing several young men in Gree
T and Hebrew a year before she entert
o his class. She not only caught up wi
them; she quickly distanced them. III
n reason for studying these languages W
4 her lifelong desire to translate the Bib
r THE way the Hayes family go to the
e seats in church is described by CORE
It pondent of the Hartford Times, WI
a says: "First comes Mr.. Hayes, bi
/, blonde, and ruddy, and as he waves t
st ladies of the party into the pew, we Il
d tice what beautifully fitting gray k
IS gloves he wears. Then there is Nj
a Hayes, thoroughly we'll dressed in t
d richest of black silk (and we hear lad
P who had evidently expected somethi
L outre, whisper, Why, her bonnet is
fashionable as any one's?); and lastl
e the Presidents niece, who, being da
l. brunette, is becomingly attired in b.
n caded silk, of which the prevailing h
S crimson"