The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-09
NUMBER II.
PASSING SMILES.
oNDoN has over IS, AGO milliners and

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dressmakers.
OUR troops were supplied with $177,-
444. "a worth of tobacco last year.
WHERE should a lady go for hus-
bandY To gentleman furnishing store,
of course.
"TALKING to her husband in loud
tone of voice" is punished by sending a
Persian wife to jail for thirty days.
"WHEN die" said married man,
to shovel" His wife said she presumed
he would.
LET young man be as much of util-
itarian MS is possible, he can very seldom
see the use of the old folks in the parlor
Sunday nights.
! New YORK Graphic: A Georgia girl
had man arrested for assault because
he saved her from drowning. 1t was
after she discovered that he was mar
ried
A YOUNG wife approached the house,
maid in the dark, and playfully seized
her by the waist, "Do stop, Monsieur,
or Madame may catch us" was the
maids caution.
SKATING has been revived as fash
ionable amusement Ten years ago it
was all the rage, but the statements of
physicians that il was injurious to ladies
| put stop to it.
Ir too often happens that the bride
who is presented with 800, 900 worth Of
| presents on her wedding day would ex-
change them all for her husbands love
only one year later.
II you put two persons in the same
bedroom, one of whom has the tooth
ache, while the other is in love, you will
| find that the person who has the tooth
ache will go to sleep first
In England, the women always pur-
chase the groceries and provisions for the
family; if man should attempt such a
thing some housewife would pin dish
cloth to his coat-tail.
WOMEN have been known to remove
their jewelry under the excitement Of
camRmeeting sermon on charity and
humblcness, but no one ever saw them
throw away real-hair switch.
AT lunch party given in Washing
ton, the other day, by a daughter of
Judge of the Supreme Court forty-fye
| young ladies were present, but no gen.
eiNih"hs NhhHPdSHS WHO bVi fSds
COSTUMES with short skirts are grad
ually coming into favor The comfort
of these skirts is SO great in relieving
the hands from holding up the demi-
train that ladies greatly prefer them for
the street.
| III is one Of the most curious things
that man who would seem to have
little household experience, can take
| the highest cork out of catsup bottle
without corkscrew, while woman
would be thinking about it.
SHE who travels through life afoot and
alone for forty years, may often yearn
for manly breast to lay her head
against, but her hands are free from
callous places and broken nails, caused
by pulling off her husbands boots.
A PRETTY conceit in the way of
white felt bonnet has the crown trim
med with crimson faille; one cream
colored feather mods forward over the
crown, and crimson one falls over
cream faille bow in the back; the face
trimmings are crimson moss rose-buds
nestled down among soft tufts of old
Malines lace.
New YORK Commercial They tell a
story Of an Alabama clergyman, who re-
marked confidentially to parishioner
that when he married his wife, twenty
years before, she was pretty enough to
eat, /" and" added he, tive often re-
GREETED since that didn't eat her, only
supposed from mere force of habit,
she'd have disagreed with me-"
THE woman-suffrage women thunder
| = Al -. @n~~.1.la
than the college graduate. There is
Matilda Jocelyn Gage, Elizabeth Boyn-
ton Herbert, Lille Detreaux Blake,
the Rev. Olympia Brown, Theresa Juan
Lewis, and, lastly, Mrs. Dundore, who
wanted to be a constable. Susan b.
Anthony, it is true, does not display her
middle name, but Susan Is passing
away.
THE GROWING HEM FABLE.
In Roosterland opce-this was cycles ago
"These ROSTERS too long" they repeated with
Have held K, . monopoly over the Dawn.
The Are has progressed, and We Hens TOO have
We can herald the Days quite as well as the
Wen petition the Sun Just to give us show,
And he'l see who the loudest and promptest can
crow"
The Sun their petff0n accepted ana bdlu:
" II you think you can wake me on time go ahead"
The Hens were all CHARMED but the very next day
The Egg business called their attention ,s away
Cried ~ lille Hens have to cackle they never can
| crowi"
| Let the ladies' who seek for the ballot rehectl
They re- electors potent than those who elect
ey aon vote, but just think Of tn" representa-
OF tas z sex who contribute the whole populs-
| ton.
| y Washington Post.
A PERSON recently met lady who is
\ distins ulsbed as having Teen four times
widow, and has now again emit red the
boz DIS of matnmoDy. Said the fir cid
Il think once lad the leasure of
dining with you in New York r
z When ~ asked the fair stranger. In
1866" lie req lied Eyes," 8 9 said
reflectiv. ly, ut may lave been 50,
but / had for. often it. You sc = she
ID ed, iii vas two or three husbands
4 ago." a
4 The favorite ornam, nts FIR hornets
and velvet hats, is The Italian nurse pin
with tremendous head These pins are
made Of gilt and silver, or even plain
nickel, a metal much used fer snaps,