Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-02-02
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.
INK fASIEE IN A WINDY DAY.

How queer to my sight are the fair promenaders,
When bright afternoons bring them out TO my view
The ribbons the nOuuces, the tang led up dresses,
The balmoral stockings, and heel liited shoe
Tee high towering ehIsnon, the Pot-lid hitched to
1t;
The back hair turned up where the waterfall fell
The cotton oeyce-those things I'D not mention
Ana cen the plump panier that makes such .
swell
The wonderful psnier the aip-happy panier
The ez-bustle panler, that makes such swell
-hsw York MGIl.
d. D. Field SITS IL the house between dele
gate Fem, Of Idaho and representative STAN
ton, of Pennsylvania. After Mr.. Field had
taken his seat, Mr.. Stanton gently remarked
TO Mr.. Fem that there was :" an awful sight
of brains" between them Mr.. Fem sweet
ly answered that he was very sorry that the
brains of the party were all in the center
IN. Y. Tribune.
A good little boy was sitting on the front
steps whiting up his sisters embroidery
frame and mut;ering TO himself :" This
amt no good world TO live in, unless feller
is his fathers and mothers only orphan boy.
What makes me get SO mad is to have my
sister 60 and take all my ripe peaches to give
to that big loafer of q sweetheart of hers that
comes round here seven nights in week to
get square meal. and makeG out as if he
wanted to talk politics with the old man.
wish they'd marry and 60 to Texas. i do "
And then he threw the remnants of the frame
in the street and seemed lighter hearted.
A gallant old gentleman Not long ago,
Us an elderly couple were out walking lady
on the opposite side Of the street tripped
and fell down The old gentleman rushed
across the street, raised his hat, and offered
to assist her in any possible way. His wife
followed him across at q slow pace. and wit
=. u,
mad and shook her fist at him, Its all
right" he whispered. "Yes," she hotly e1-
claimed. Here an unknown woman stubs
her toe. and you plow across the street to
eat her up with kindness. The other day,
when fell down stairs, you stood and laugh
ed and chuckled and tickled your ribs. and
wanted to know if l was preeticing for a cir
Gus y
The Detroit Free Press reports the follow
ing He was a young man, and he looked
Like student-hke one Of the students in
attendance at Harvard college. Moreover,
his prompt action, as he saw u loaf Of bread
on the crosswalk up Woodward avenue. went
to show that he was fond of football, and
therefore q student at Harvard He reason
ed that the loaf had fallen from the bakers
sleigh, and further reasoned that it was bet
ter for him to kick 1t into forty pieces than
for some poor person to find it. He kicked.
BE kicked for all he Was worth, and uttering
wall of agony he lmped TO the fence and
leaned against it and swore like pirate
The interior of that lost loaf of bread was
handsome cobbles:one, put there for just
such an emergency"
he was gentleman from the country, snd
had ensoonced his " girl" and himself in the
corner Of a Highland Car. As the vehicle
sped up Shawmut Avenus his arm began to
steal around his companions waist and his
head inclined lovingly towards her, uncon-
scious Of observation by the few remaining
Passengers. Just as the car approached Saw
yer street, the conductor thrust his head in
side the car, and yelled - Saw yer" in close
proximity to Hayseed's head. The latter
hastily drawing himself " into form," indig-
nGntly remarked, You needn't er howled it
through the car. if You did. We'er engaged" !"
and the rest of the freight set their faces to-
ward tie driver and grinned. Boston Pa
per.
The Medical Bi-Weekly tells Of Michigan
doctor, who, called in to see an ailing babe
declared that the child's brain was develop
ing too rapidly that the substance which
should 60 TO make up the teeth was scatter
ing all over the system and that they (the
teeth were liable to appear on any part of
the body. But be thought that. if he could
get his medicine to operate properly. there
was still q chance to gather the scattered sub
stance and concentrate it somewhere in the
region of the jaw"
The Washington correspondent of the
Louisville Courler-Journal writes Those
who are familiar with society in Washington
cannot avoid observing that all the girls have
attenuated forms. We, who are accustomed
to the fine developments Of Western and
Southern women, look with astonishment at
the thin arms and scraggy necks that are ex-
posed to view To render the attenuation
more apparent, young ladies have adopted
the closs-clinging skirts and corset waits
laced down the back. Thus attired our girls
can be hkened to nothing but an sxclama-
tion point There is as much symmetry OF
form in one as the other. When these girls
dance the German, humane persons are in
clin0d to petition the gentlemen TO handle
them with care, lest they break in two vt the
hfteen-inch waist"