The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-07
THE GENTLE SEX.
Weaving the Web.

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Followed afar the swallows flight.
"As soon as the days first tasks are done,
81 win hasten to weave the beautiful web
Whose pattern Is known to none but me!
81 VIII weave 1t fine, win weave 1T fair,
And ah how the colors will glow!" she said,
$50 fadeless and strong will weave my web
That perhaps IL viii live after am dead"
The air grew sweet with the breath of June;
And young Love hid by the waiting loom,
Tangling the threads as he hummed tune.
"Ah! life is so rich and full" she cried,
"And morn is short though the days are
long!
This noon win weave my beautiful web,
Will weave IL carefully, fine and strong"
The burden and heat of the day she bore;
And hither and thither she came and went,
While the loom stood still as 1t stood before
"Ah life is too busy at noon" she said,
my web must wait till the eventide,
TIL the common work of the day is done,
And my heart grows calm in the silence
widew
So, one by one, the hours passed on
TN the creeping shadows had longer grown
Till the house was still, and the breezes slept,
Ana her singing birds 10 their nests mad
flown.
"And now win weave my web," she said,
And laid her hands on the shining Threads
To set them in order, one by one.
But hand was tired, and heart was weak;
81 am not as strong as was, :" sighed she;
"And the pattern is blurred, and the colors
Are not so bright or SO fair to see,
al must wait, think, till another morn;
must go to my rest with my work undone;
1t Is growing too dark to weaver she cried,
AS lower and lower sank the sun.
She dropped the shuttle; the loom stood still I;
The weaver slept in the twilight gray,
Dear hearti viii she weave her web
In the golden light Of longer day?
Julia &. r. Dorr in Scribner.
She was plump and beautiful, and he was
wildly fond of her. she hated HIM, but, wo-
man like, she strove to catch him. He was
q flea.
Mr. Schmidt is happy man. He has in
his family seven boys and six girls. And he
says mot yon OF dem is bow-eyed or cross
legged"
Dr. Mary Walker always looks foolish when
she lights match on her pantaloOns. Es'
pecially if she is excited and breaks the
match.
The proper time for a girl to marry is after
she has counted up her cash and found that
she can support herself in case her husband
turns politician.
In some countries a broken down front
girl needs to insure favorable verdict In a
breach of promise case.
The Lambertini Antonelli case still drags
its slow length along. The heirs OF the late
cardinal are endeavoring to secure post
ponement till November.
A lady well known in Chicago society
"gambols on the green" for the entertain
ment of her guests. In other words, she
dances on the billiard table.
The municipality of Prague has forbidden
the wearing of dresses with trains upon the
streets, because of the dust, injurious to the
public health, raised by them.
A handsome and accomplished woman has
lust died In Brooklyn at the age of "a who
left a daughter of 16 and fourteen other chill
dren. She died in childbirth.
Boston DANES says fashion item, wear
kilt suits regardless of age. We don't believe
a Boston dame would wear kilt suit over
fifty years old-for the reason that there are
no kilt suits that old in the market.
Female artists are invading the domain of
art, in France at least, in formidable num-
bers. In 1874 there were 2S6 female exhibit
ors at the Salon; there were 312 in 1875, 446
in 1876, 64S in 1877 and 762 in 1878.
1t is said that Mrs TIlton will lecture
There could be nothing more taking than
her second, third and fourth confessions
By the time she got through with these the
audience would ''even wish that they were
dead"
Mrs Ida Pierce, divorced wife, was re-
leased from the penitentiary at La Crosse,
Wis a few days since, after several months
imprisonment for contempt of court, in re-
fusing to give up her child to her former
husband.
There was something extremely touching
in the remark made by John Hardy the
other day in Boston court, "An of my
wives but one are dead" He shed tears,
which we sadly fear must be placed to the
account of the one who didn't die
AS two ladies were walking along the
street one exclaimed, as the sky suddenly
darkened: There's a thunder storm COM
ing on. I'm so afraid of lightnlngn' To
which the other calmly replied: Every
well, my dear; then let us step into this car,
which seems to have good conductor"
Since PATHS marriage 800, 900 of her earn
ings have been administered by her husband,
and he still has $780, 900 of the money in
vested in his name. IL she wins her lawsuit
and the English marriage is annulled for ir
loses, half of 1t, according TO the marriage
contract, becomes her legal lords.
Miss Ellen Day, Norwich spinster, has
been sued for 81, 900 for slander by her neph-
ew's young wife, Mrs. Z. J. Day, and the
case bas just been heard, though the judge
has reserved his decision. The old lady
seems to have objected to her Hephew's mar
rying, and made it as hot for the lovers as
she possibly could, the young woman being
made special target for her billingsgate.
Olive Logan reports a new and exceed
ingly expensive stocking. 1t is to be of lace.
"open work from the toe to over the knee,
and so transparent that ladies will have to
wear q silk stocking under it. Once let the
American women see them," says Miss Lo-
gan, "and they'll all die bat what they'll
have them, until some new folly comes in,
and then you won't be able to sell a pair at
one-ffth of its value" 1t would not be wise
to question this assertion. Olive Logan is an
American woman herself and she knows.
Baltimore Gazette: Mrs. Baker, the wife
of Ephraim Baker, a farmer who dwells near
Woodsboro, Nd, is 40 years of age and the
mother of several children. She has eloped
with demented youth of 10, named Hol-
Drummer. The couple represented themselves
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