The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-01-05
Items for the Girls.
. GREEK GIRL.

GREEK GIRL.
Somewhere have eeen her wander
Bearing bay and oleander,
And the soft air whispered round her
With a delicate sweet motion;
Aud from far there followed after
RiDgIng laughter, hooking laughter
Inextinguishable laughter
OF the merry girls who found her
Singing, by the purple ocean,
Songs 1 made OF sun and shadow
For my maiden OF the meadow.
President White Of Cornell University ad-
mits that the lady pupils average ten per cent.
better on the examination papers than the
young men.
To-day young girls will meet each other and
smile, and smile, and be villains still as they
strive emulously to blast each others youthful
happiness with glowing descriptions OF the
presents they received. There is this draw
back, as compared with the practice of measur-
ing offers OF marriage: If you say you had such
and such thing presented to you, you will in
evitably be challenged to show it, and. as the
Psalmist says, have either to "put up or shut
up" But q clever girl can do this she can say
to her companion, " Maudie, love. you remem-
ber that swfully handsome fellow, with the
great, liquid, black eyes. full Of passionate
languor, and the soft, musical, and eIquisitely
modulated voice. the tones OF which," or
course Maud doesn't remember him-neither
do you, for that matter-but as she Is dying to
know what about him, she will say, 40, yes,
remember HIM perfectly Then continue,
SWELL, last Sunday night he came with me from
church, and when We were in the parlor he said,
'LurlIne, I've brought you Christmas pres
emit, and he took little box out Of his pocket.
and what do you think was in 1t Just guess"
Maud replies that she couldn't for the life OF
her; what was it? "You won't tell soul "
Maud says she won't. swell, it WAS diamond
brooch and earrings to match The loveliest
The beautifullest! The exquisitest o, il
you knew how they spsrkled!" But" SAYS
Maud, where are they? Let me see them"
20. Maud, you know mother would never have
Iet me accept such present from gentleman
whom have only met three or four times, and
explained this and made him take them back.
Poor fellow, he was almost heartbroken and
said he would throw them away If didn't take
them, but at last convinced him that ma was
right and he said he should keep them till we
we're engaged. And what did you get. Maud
falsehood, and though she knows that the
handsome young man and the diamond set are
pure myths she will go home and have good
cry.-Chicago Tribune.
Christmas, in the superlative degree, per
vades the holiday number OF "Wide Awake"
Mrs. l.. c. Wilton opens it with one Of the
loveliest Of this years Christmas poems. OPP
posite is the frontispiece. an engraving Of Ra-
phael's Sistine Madonna. Edgar Fawcet and
Mrs. $. M. B. Pratt are also represented by
holiday poems, 'Chidren's Faces and About
Magician H. r. Hudson furnishes funny
Christmas tale, Two Days Before Christmas
Margaret Etynge's What Happened to the
Baby. is still funnier. But the star story is
'Lill's Travels in Santa Claus Land 1t is mag
nificently illustrated by Mr.. A. r. Waud, with
scenes in Santa Claus Land, Santa Claus and
his Reindeer, appearing on one OF tho pages.
Mrs. Handy, of Richmond, Virginia, writes
about "A Confederate Christmas Tree, while
William NJ. F. Round opens his Child Marian
Abroad with Child Maran's jolly Christmas
on Shipboard.' Sophie Mays serial, 'Quinne-
basset Girls opens well. 'Good-for-Nothing
Polly, who is growing in character. Is still the
Same good-fornothing boy IN his daily prac-
tics. The Little Folks ell over the country are
represented by the letters which they have sent
with their dolls to the Dolls Far, as Christmas
gifts to the children in the hospitals.
Only % 90 per annum, free Of postage. Ella
Farman, editor. d. Lathrop & Co., publishers,
Boston, Mass.
Some knd-hearted Ionia ladies gave Christ
mas dinner to the old bachelors Of that place.
1t is an annual custom, aud the result Is that
some of them are sure to be captured before