The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-11
For the Ladies.


INDIANS never kiss their wives; kissing
is one of the Christian graces.
WHITE is again in favor for ball tot
lettes, especially for young ladies.
LADIES, when driving, have bow of
blue or cardinal ribbon fastened to the
whip.
If doctors keep on with their warnings
against baby kissing, lots and lots of big
girls will be driven to kiss babies older
grown.
SINCE the doctors began to agree that
tight-lacing didn't hurt women a bit, but
had tendency to make them healthy,
you can't hardly find a pinched waist in a
days travel.
AN Erie Railway conductor seized a
woman's baby when she wouldn't pay her
fare, but she was so glad to get rid of the
child that he paid her two dollars to take
it back.
AN exchange says: "Girls, if you knew
you would keep yourselves as neat as wax
all the time" Are men worth taking all
that trouble for9"
VIsIToR-"I see you have new girl"
Housekeeper-'I took her week on
trial" Visitor-"And how do you like
her9" Housekeeper-"The trial is al
most more than l can bear"
BLACK kid belts, with aunOniere bags
mounted with silver or with cut steel, are
a novelty. The monogram of the wearer
is on the bag, and the clasps and joints
of the belt are finely carved. The price
of this really useful article is only $25.
IT was very careless leaving the parrot
in the parlor. Sunday evening, but she
never thought anything about it until
Monday morning, when he reused the
whole house by making smacking noise
and crying, "Daring Susie! darling Su-
sie." He kept it up all day, and the old
folks are much interested in the CASE
Rome Sentinel.
"VIoLET FAME" wants a new name to
call her lover, and says:
Where shall find that magic name to give
him?
How shall learn to spell the hidden word?
Oh! shall find it Graded on the zephyr?
Or lurking in the wood notes of the bird?
Look in the directory, dear, look in
the directory.
IF YOU ONLY THINK so.
often think my only love,
The world would be more true.
II half the ladies in the world
Were half as good as you.
And don't you think, my only love,
'Twere merrier meath the sky,
If half the men in half the world
Could love as well as /?
Mortimer Collins.
"THrs may seem a work OF supererO-
CATION" he remarked as he toddlcd down
to the front gate, and commenced opera
tions on the hinges with feather and a
bottle of oil; "but the critical period is
approaching, when a young man
has to be handled very del
icately, and just the least little
bit of set back may throw things. The
smallest creak might be disastrous; and
this gates got to stand for two girls more
besides Imogene. "-Puck.
PAUL DE CAssAaNAC, the French Dep
uty, journalist, bull and duelist, received
his first instruction in fencing from
woman. She was the daughter of PO-
fish fugitive, by vocation fencing mas
ter. She came to ask assistance for her
sick father, and proved the truth of her
story by challenging doubter to bout
with the foils, and easily disarmed him.
Under the tutelage of this woman Cassag-
nae became one of the most expert swords
men in France. He has fought nineteen
duels and never received scratch.
A FEMALE Justice of the Peace in Wy
oming Territory was obliged to hear
case of scandalous character, in which
her husband filled the unenviable posi-
ton Of defendant. She sentenced him to
be hanged by the neck until he was dead,
and was anxious to have the sentence car
ried into effect at once, until the attorneys
explainedto her that she was sitting simply
as an examining court. She then held him
in bonds Of $1S,0OO,0 900, to await the ac-
ton of the grand jury, and said she would
shoot the first man full of holes that at
tempted to raise the surcties.-NeUada
Paper.
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. One hundred