Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-06-11
MAIDENS AND NATIONS.

Brown eyes denote an affectionate,
faithful nature in the wearer.
An Iowa bride was rugged in trous
seau given by former rejected lover.
The Duke of Buckingham's daugh-
tiers know how to cook an excellent din.
ner.
If dull weather affects you, marry a
warm-hearted girl, and make sunshine
for yourself.
A business suit for the ladies-A
thug me-tight jacket" and kiss me-
quick" bonnet.
The quiet fellow in the corner who
lets his RIVALS do all the talking general
ly marries the girl.
The California woman who was robbed
of 1924, 900, which she had secreted in her
hustle, must have been drawing her
back pay.
Athletic sport for ladies; jumping at
conclusions; walking around a subject
running through novel; skipping full
descriptions.
There will always be more or less ex-
element in the household that possesses
cat and a back fence, or q poor piano
and good healthy girl.
Old Deacon Dobson always boosted
that he was prepared for the worst, /"
and his neighbors thought he got it
when he married his second wife.
A Newark girl fastened the departure
of a young gentleman caller one even
ing by remarking, as she looked out of
the window TT think we shall have a
beautiful SUNRISE"
When the Princess Helen was born it
was told the princess royal that she had
got young sister. 20, that is delight
full ~ cried the innocent royalist; "do
let me go and tell mamma"
Girls, whose opinion about such things
is always valuable, say that there's too
much shirt collar and too little young
man in the present fashions to suit their
TASTE West Meriden Recorder.
Mr.. Smith is bound to have his jok e.
His wife walked nearly in front of a
railroad train the other day, and he said
that it she had gone q step farther his
children would have had a step-mother.
The young lady who fancied Gu cunl-
bers grew in slices, has recently been
married to the young gentleman who sent
over to st. Petersburg large cargo of
soap stones for cleaning the steppes of
Russia.
A young lady had coquetted until the
victim was completely exhausted He
rose to go away. She whispered, as she
ACCOMPANIED him to the door, ST shall
be at home next Sunday evening"" $50
shall l." he replied.
A bashful young man applied to his
village paper for information on the inn
portant subject :-'How to win wo-
mans love-" The reply was :-"Kiss
the babies, caress the cat, and pay strict
attention to the girls mother.''
The wise daughter is the pride of her
father, yea, her mother doth delight in
her; but the foolish maiden bringeth
sorrow. She hangeth on the front gate
she tippeth up her hat over her left ear
her eye is full of the Old Nick. She
glances over her shoulders OH Main
street.
When st. Louis girl is very much
in earnest about anything she will "bet
her boots" on it. The auditors walk
round her feet, and when they have re.
turned and rested say that, if she has
not wagered her all on the result, she
has betted a great share of herself.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
A woman wants her garments to cling
to her gracefully until she meets rat
on the cellar stairs, and then she wishes
that she was the centre pole of a raised
umbrella that has been caught by the
passing gale and is sailing through the
blue empyrean at the rate of forty knots
per hour.-Brooklyn Democrat.
A lady says engagements are very I'm
not very polite and attentive the gentle
man thinks you do not care for him,
and you are afraid to be polite for fear
the engagement might sometimes be
broken of, when you would be sorry to
think you had wasted SO much sweet
ness on some other woman's husband.
A lady with fatal squint came once
to fashionable artist for portrait. He
and both were embarrassed. He spoke
rst:-"Wo your ladyship permit
me-" he said, ''to take the portrait in
profile? There is certain shyness
about one of your ladyship's eyes which
is as difficult in art as it is fascinating
in nature"
"Just one," murmured he, involunta-
rily drawing closer to the luscious lips,
thatsmiled upon him with such ravish-
ing bewitchiHgness, while his own quiv-
cred in an agony of expectant anticipa
ton. $50 notice." replies she coolly,
glancing at the clock, land time for you
to turn up your coat collar and shut the
street-do0r from the outside" Hewent.
-D0,abuy Nea0s.
Mr.. Fitzpatrick selected as the hero of
his story shy young man of Scotland,
who for fourteen years had woOed the
lassie of his heart. One night, Sammy,
for that was the young mans name,
called to see Fanny, and there was
terrible look about his eyes, just as there
is sometimes when they've made up
their minds to pop the question. And
Sammy came in and sat down by the
fire; just as he had done every Tuesday
and Friday night for fourteen long years,
and he talked of the weather, and the
cattle, and the crops, and the stock mar
ket, l was going to say-but no, they
didn't talk about that. And finally
Sammy says, Fanny, I've known you
now for long time" "Yes, Sammy"
said she: land I've thought I'd al
ways like to-know you, Fanny
Yes, Sammy" And so I've bought
"a lot-Fanny." my"
''SO that when -" "Yes, Sammy,
yes" when we're dead we can lay
our bones together" The fool had gone
and bought a lot in graveyard. But
Fanny wasn't discouraged. She knew
her man well-after fourteen years she |
ought-and so she said gently, "Sam-
my" Eyes, Fanny" Don't you
think 'twOuld be better to lay our bones
together while we're alive?"