The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-10

Our Own.

II had known in the morning
How YEARLY all the day
The words uuk kind
Would trouble my mind,
i said when you went away
had been more careful, airing,
Nor given you needless pain;
But we Vex "our own"
With look and tone,
We may never take back again.
For though in the quiet evening
You may give Us the kiss Of peace,
Yet IL might DE-
That never for
The pain of the heart should eense.
How many 20 forth In the morning
That never come back AT night
And hearts have broken,
FOR hursn words spoken,
That sorrow can neer let right
We have careful thoughts for the stranger,
Ana smiles for the sometime guest;
But oft for "Our own"
The butter tone,
Though we love sour own" the best.
Ali lips with curse Inpatient
Ali brow with that look OF scornl
Twere a cruel fate,
Were the night too late
To undo the work OF the morn.
On pretty girls saying to Leigh Hunt,
II am very sad you see" he replied, ''Oh,
no; you belong to the other Jewish sect.
You are very fair see."
Marriage resembles e pair OF shears, so
! Joined that they can not be separated; often
| moving in opposite directions, yet always
furnishing any one who comes between
them.-Sydney Smith.
Under the new education act of Great Bri-
| tain women are eligible for election as mem
| mers of boards of education. In our own
country Massachusetts,, Illinois and Iowa
have provided for the same eligibility and
although the laws therein have been in op-
Grafton for only brief period, the results
already attained are of the most satisfactory
character In numbers of districts women
| have been elected commissioners or trustees,
| and their administrations have shown the
wisdom Of the law which permitted theR-
A room with pictures in it and a room
| without pictures differ by nearly a. much as
| room without windows. Nothing, we
think. is more melancholy, particularly 10 a
| person who has TO spend much time in his
room, than blank walls and nothing on
| them; for pictures are loopholes OF escape TO
the soul, leading it TO the other scenes and
| other spheres II is such an inexpreSsi BILE
relief 10 person engaged in writing,
or even reading on looking up, not 20 have
his line of vision chopped square off by an
odious white wall, but find his soul escaping,
as il were, through the frame of an exquisite
picture 10 other beautiful and perhaps
| idyllic scenes. where the fancy Of moment
may reyel refreshed and delighted Is it
winter in your world? perhaps il is summer
in the picture; what charming mOmentary
change and contrast!-New York School
| Journal.
Thequeen Of the lobby is generally Of
| two tyres. The first Is a superb specimen Of
beauty, the latter of brains. The beauty Of
the lobby is but rarely seen. She lives quiet
ly, but in perfect taste, at the very best hotel
| She is either bright blonde, with album
dance Of tawny hair, 1.-THE in form and shape
! ~ of limb, with the clearest and most per-
| feet complexion; or else she is of that soft
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semi tropical woman of strong. jet black
hair, and complexion like a magnolia, of
| rich, dead white. with = creamy soft
ness, and eyes Ut black sometimes and at
others the softest hazel brown eyes, lRnguid
and indolent in their lustre, until something
rouses them, and then they CLEAN like those
of startled leopard. One might look and
aCmiIe, but / should prefer to take my
chances safely Ia the embrace Of India's
hercest tiger rather than in the willowy
| arms of one of these beauties.-Washingto
Letter.
OF women in the Washington departments
a letter in the Pittsburgh Chronicle saws:
Allowing that their qualifications are on a
par with those OF the other sex, the associa-
ton in a business capacity is no benefit to
either, If for no other reason than that when
the two sexes are brought into business as
ISOLATION there is certain to ensue an amount
of Irritation, idleness, nonsense, and more
| and worse, the head of a bureau is bewitched
| By some irresistible feminine solicitor for a
| place, which she gets A whole school of
ladies make themselves attractive TO an ap-
pOintment clerk or a head of q division,
with a view TO their permanency 70 being
| employed in a pleasant room. and TO having
nice work. Public officers and subordinates
are made fools of, and women are scandal
lized by the familiar contact that is the in
evitable result OF the present system, and
| the decentralization is not limited TO the de
partments, but 1t extends 10 the repre-
sentative power that demands employ
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