The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-07-05
FACTS AND FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

STURDY old DR.. johnson said it was a |
deal better for woman to paint 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 large ma
jority - in drawing. One boy and nine
girls took prizes at recent texamination
IT 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 swimming
club or school, which is largely patron
lied. Every girl in the country ought
to know how to swim.
In late style of marriage announce
ments only the names of the bride and
clergyman appear. As civilization ad-
vances, the groom becomes of ssimpor-
tance on such occasions
IT is said that widow who weeps is
dangerous woman. A widow who smiles
is also dangerous, and widow who
neither weeps nor smiles will have the
reputation of being plotter.
A FEMALE preacher is said to be
writing " 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
5 be still.
IT is an accepted theory that woman's
perceptions are quicker than a mans,
and yet the experience of a thousand
wears would fail to teach her that it re-
| quires more delicacy of touch to sharpen
lead pencil than to point bean pole.
LOUISE CHANDLER MOULToN says
that to be properly dressed in London a
woman must wear tiny bonnet hang
| ing on knot of hair, an immense erin
oline, heelless boots, black lace shawl,
and her front hair pasted down over her
cheeks like horses blinders.
WoMAN's lack of confidencein in business
transactions is amply illustrated in the
fact that she can never muster up suffi-
cient courage to ask for spool of cotton
twist until she has examined every piece
of dress goods in the store, so as to get on
speaking terms with the clerk.
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"
INSTEAD of zephyr woods there is a
fancy now for using Shetland wool
Shetland floss and ice wool for the pretty
head coverings worn during the summer
and for light shawls. These woods are
lighter, and at the same time frmer, sc
that they do not rumple SO easily.
SOME one has discovered that there ii
a young lady in this city who wonder:
how it is that a little quicksilver in {
glass can make such awful hot weather
by just rising an inch or so. She il
probably the same beauty who wanted
to know why ice wasn't cold enough t.
keep itself from melting.
OIL CITY Call: 1t happened the othe
day that our wife got hold of war map
) representing the Black Sea and Russian
, and Turkish armies, and when we go
home she had cut two new dresses and
neat basque by it, and was beginning OIL
7 new fashioned coat for ourselves. Sh
thought it was a fashion cut-and sh
believes so yet.
A WOMAN has no natural grace NOR
: bewitching than a sweet laugh. HOY
much we owe to that sweet laugh!
turns the prose of our life into poetry
it filings showers of sunshine over tn
6 darksome wood in which we are trave
ing; it touches with light even ou
sleep, which is the image of death, bu
, gemmed with dreams that are the shac
ows of immortality.
v GooD-LooKING young man who ha
i called at the house upon business: I"
!. regret, Miss, that your father is not q
t home; had an important proposal t
e make to him." Young lady Of tn
e house, demurely: "Wel1, perhaps yo
5 would make your proposal to me: I al
e at present disengaged." Young man r,
i tires in confusion, not expecting to ell
t counter such girl.
g WHEN you have seen a woman twis
ing up her back hair, and holding twent,
f three hair-pins in her mouth, while sh
tells a neighbor on the other side of til
# street how to make strawberry short caB
so the man can't find the strawberry, tt
i secret of Demosthenes's successful trail
ing with the pebbles is no longer my
+ terry.
TRAILING arbutus, primroses an
# snowballs, are favorite flowers, and ft
face trimming tulle ruches divide IL
= honors with ravelled ruches of sati
The two are often combined, and a bo
r of two loops and fringed ends is place
Immediately above the forehead. A vel
T. odd and pretty bonnet was recently see
of Tuscan braid, trimmed with wit
s. black satin ribbon, edged on one sit
with half-inch width of yellow and re
y satin. A half wreath of red and whi
Al currants, with foliage, ornamented OF
side of the bonnet, while long strings
# the ribbon were tied in bow under tt
chin.