Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11
Odds and Ends.

You cannot always tell by the way person
dresses whether his pew is paid for.-[ DAN
bury NeUs.
The Turks took liking to the silent Grant
because he said 80 little that they couldn't I'M
derstand.- Loueu Courier:
A certain little damSel, being aggravated
beyond endurance by her big brother, fell
down upon her knees and cried: "Oh Lord
bless my brother Tom. He lies, he steals, he
1t is proposed that the Senate meet only
once every two hundred years and then re.
main in session only twenty-fOur hours. The
object of this bill is to give Senator Sharon a
Senate Chamber-[ burlington HDDEeye.
Did not Charles Lever hint at the coming in
vention OF the photograph when he said OF
lips until at last he was up to his knees in his
own eloquence?-f Turner's Falls Reporter.
One Of the meanest ISLANDERS afioat is that
which charges that one Of our clergyman
swore an oath the other night. The circum.
stances are simply these: He went into the
house, and attempted to make his way in the
deposit bunch of rhubarb presented him by
parishioner, forgetting that house. cleaning
had commenced. The Wretched girl had left
he accidentally stumbled. Making an hercu.
lean effort to save himself he grabbed for
something with both hands, and as he aighted
firmly on his stomach pulled down on top Of
to his feet he made pitch for the match safe,
but happening to plant his foot in puddle OF
the soft soap he promptly sat down in tub of
had retired early, was reused from her slum.
bers and thinking that burglars were abroad,
shrieked for help, to which the hired girl re-
sponded, rushing into the room and tum bling
headlOng over the man in the WaShtub. These
are the naked facts in the case, and that is all
there is of it. Our gOOd friend did not say a
word that could be construed into profanity.
He simply sat firmly and quietly among the
preserves until light was struck, and then
mildly inquired. "HOw much longer, dear
does house cleaning last"'-[Ithaca Journal
MANAGING MAMMAs says Harper's Bazaar,
are generally accused of exerting their pecu.
liar ability and influence in behalf of expect
ed) rich son-inlaws, irrespective of any other
consideration. Were this true, many of the
harsh things said of them might be extenuated,
II not excused but it is not true of any num-
Der OF mothers, who are called managers when
they are suspected OF wanting any kind of
young men, are afflicted with cOnceit, cox
c0mbry, or ego ism, or all three together, that
they are apt to imagine that mothers cherish
designs upon them, when the mothers would
not annex them to the family on any account.
Rebukcd for their pretensiOns or insolence,
they comfort their wounded vanity by declar-
lingness to propose, as was evidently the
maternal determine ion that they should
They are fond OF closing their expressed
his sysFY man and fsh
mistaken resolution not to be dragooned
into matrimony by any woman alive.
own averments, for they knew far better than
they could be persuaded to confess, that as
ns-in-law OF any mamma, managing or other
wise, they would be supremacy ineligible Most
OF the talk and cheap satire about managing
mammas, is, in this country, downright i'm
perllnence. Women who are really such, in the
full and offensive meaning ordinarily attached
to the words, are not admirable nor always
estimable, though something might be said In
their defense. But there are really very feW of
them. The majority are coinage of the brain
or creatures OF cynicism. The men who i'm
agine that mothers and their daughters are
angling for them would be less unjust and less
foolish, if they knew that neither those moth
ers nor those daughters, surprising them to be
addicted to maritO piscatorial sports, could be
induced 10 fish in such shallow streams. In
ste ad OF too many managing mammas, in the
loose, merely satiric sense, we have not enough
OF them in the republic. American mothers,
as rule, are VIGOROUSLY careless about their
daughters matrimonial prospects aud posi-
ollt,es; They need in a rational way, to man.
do in many years to come.