The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-07-05
FACTS AND FANCIEs FOR THE FAIR.

STURDY old DR.. johnson said it was a
deal better for a woman to painth her own
face than to blacken another woman's
character, but some women do>both.
THE girls in the Cincinnati High
Schools lead the boys "by a large ma
in drawing. One boy and nine
girls took prizes at a recentexamination.
1T is SO easy for young ladies to be
good. Even in kissing each other they
obey the golden rule: do unto others as
We would that men should do unto you.
THE German little girls and young
ladies of Milwaukee have a swimming
club or school, which is largely patron
lied. Every girl in the country ought
to know how to swim.
In a late style of marriage announce
ments only the names of the bride and
clergyman appear. As civilization adj
vances, the groom becomes of lessimpor-
lance on such occasions.
IT is said that a widow who weeps is a
dangerous woman. Awidow who smiles
is also dangerous, and a widow who
neither weeps nor smiles will have the
reputation of being a plotter.
A FEMALE preacher is said to be
writing a Commentary on the Life of
Joshua" 1t is reported she will observe
that Joshua was successful with the sun,
but he never commanded the daughter
8 be still.
IT is an accepted theory that woman's
perceptions are quicker than a mans,
and yet the experience of a thousand
years would fail to teach her that it re-
auires more delicacy of touch tosharpen
a lead pencil than to point a bean pole.
LOUISE CHANDLER MoULToN says
that to be properly dressed in London a
woman must wear a tiny bonnet hang
ing on a knot of hair, an immense GRIN
oline, heelless boots, a black lace shawl,
and her front hair pasted down over her
cheeks like a horses binders.
WoMAN's lackof confdencein business
transactions is amply illustrated in the
fact that she can never muster up suffi-
cient courage to ask for a spool of cotton
twist until she has examined every piece
of dress goods in 1.-THE store, soas to get on
speaking terms with the clerk. w
81 SHALL not discuss woman in the
columns of my paper" said George d.
Prentice, "while considering the main
points involved in the campaign, because
every one who is informed on the subject
of her creation knows that woman was a
| side ISSUE" NT
INSTEAD of zephyr woods there is a
| fancy now for using Shetland wool,
| Shetland floss and ice wool forthe pretty
head coverings worn during thesummer,
and for light shawls. These woods are
lighter, and at the same time firmer, so
that they do not rumple SO easily. +
SOME one has discovered that there is
a young lady in this city who wonders
how it is that q little quicksilver in a
glass can make such awful hot weather
by Just rising an inch or so. She is
probably the same beauty who wanted
to know why ice wasn't cold enough to
keep itself from melting.
OH CITY Call: 1t happened the other
day that our wife got hold of a war map,
representing the Black Sea and Russian
and Turkish armies, and when we got
home she had cut two new dresses and a
neat basque by it, and was beginning on
a new fashioned coat for ourselves. She
thought it was a fashion cut-and she
believes so yet.
A WOMAN has no natural grace more
bewitching than a sweet laugh. How
much we to that sweet laugh! Il
turns the prose of our life into poetry
it filings showers of sunshine over the
darksome wood in which we are travel
ing; it touches with light even oul
sleep, which is the image of death, bu'
gemmed with dreams that are the shad
ows of Immortality.
GooD-LoOKING young man who ha
called at the house upon business: &C.
regret, Miss, that your father is not a
home; l had an important proposal t.
make to him." Young lady of tn
house, demurely: "Wel1, perhaps yo1
would make your proposal to me: l an
at present disengaged." Young man re
tires in confusion, not expecting to en-
counter such a girl.
WHEN you have seen a woman twist
ing up her back hair, andholding twenty
: three hair-pins in her mouth, while sh
tells a neighbor on the other side of tn
street how to make strawberry shortcak
so the man can't find the strawberry, tn
secret of Demosthenes's successful train
ing with the pebbles is no longer a mys
terry.
TRAILING arbutus, primroses an
snowballs, are favorite flowers, and fo
face trimming tulle ruches divide tn
honors with ravelled ruches of SAITH
The two are often combined, and a Boz
of two loops and fringed ends is place
Immediately above the forehead. A yer
odd and pretty bonnet was recently see
of Tuscan braid, trimmed with wild
: black satin ribbon, edged on one sid
with a half-inch width of yellow and re
satin. A half wreath of red and whit
! ~currants, with foliage, ornamented OF
side of the bonnet, while long strings
E the ribbon were tied in a bow under I'll