Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-01-24
Mans Better-HnE.


How to find girl out-Call when she
isn't in.
Where is the best place for reflection?-
In mirror.
A Rome belle says this may be an of
year, but she has had an offer.
A clumsy man with big feet is the great.
est train-wrecker lady knows of.
Wien young lady gives gH,s herself swav
Butter down! as the goat remarked to
himself as he saw the farmers wife cross.
ing the field.
Women who read newspapers are always
bright, gOod-natured, and full Of common
sense.
| Twenty-nine women were advertised in
Il recent issue of a Chicago paper as abou,
to preach and conduct religious services
on the following Sunday.
Since the employment of girls in the
cigar manufactures Of the East. smokers
complain that they find bits of calico and
strands of hair in their cigars.
You may tell woman that her elegant
new dress ''agrees with" her complexion
but under no circumstances tell her that
her face becomes her dress.
Girls, whose opinion about such things
is always valuable, says that there is too
much shirt-collar and too little young man
in the present fashions to suit their taste.
The idea Of comparing man to worm
probably originated in the fact that if a
woman finds one Of the latter crawling
near her, she is disposed to make as much
fuss over it as she does over her first
beau.
A Milwaukee man made three unsuccess-
full attempts to blow his brains out, and
then his wife told him: don't try ii
again, John; you haven't got any" He
goes about now, saying he owes his life to
that woman.
A lady correspondent says that girls
should cease to be kissed by their gentle
man friends..wh they put on long dress
es. We never kissed anybody in our lite,
but we'd just like to know what difference
the length Of the dress makes.
She was dancing the ''Eoston dip,'' and
dipped so low that her respected mother
in-law interpOsed with protest, between
the sets. '.You dance very gracefully, my
DEAR" she said, '.but''-and she paused.
''Yes, I've taken my dip-low-ma, you mean
to say, don't you."
Sho eto,,,,o<l ou+ ~ thu oo.o n Eo,, min
utes, leaving book on the seat, but on re-
turning went to the wrong pew, and in
quired of "a placid old lady: ''Are you sit
ting on That Husband Of Mine?' ~ ''Good
gracious! ! :" exclaimed the old maid.
jumping up and scanning the seat with
rigid scrutiny.
"A rather green clerk in one of our
stores the other day waited upon a lady
customer who said she wished to make a
present to a lady friend, but hardly knew
what to get. The clerk looked around in
a puzzled manner, and finally placing his
hand on an article, asked how that would
do. The lady swept out of the store in
high dudgeon. leaving the clerk standing
in the centre of the room scratching his
head. He had indicated baby carriage.
Providence Journal: A young lady
who is studying French, lately wrote to
her parents that she was '.invited out to a
dejeuner the day before, and was going to
a tete champetre the next day. The pro-
fcssor Of the college was surprised to re-
ceive a dispatch from the ''old man. day
or two after, saying: ''If you can't keep
my girl away from these blarsted menag-
cries and site-shows, will come down and
see what ails her."
In March, 1873, DR.. Mary Walker was
appointed to clerkship in the Treasury
Department by Secretary Richardson,
passed the usual examination. was duly
sworn in, and ordered to report for duty
to Treasurer Spinner. She did so report,
but some ladies Of the department object
ed to DR.. Mary, unless she would leave off
her trowsers and assume the dress which
is recognized as proper for women. The
female clerks carried their protest to Secre-
tary Richardson, who informed the eccen-
trio doctor that she must dress as other
ladies, or he could not assign her to a desk
in the Treasury Department. This she re-
fused to do, but reported tor duty daily for
two years, while, curiously enough, her
appointment was never revoked. Recent
ly she presented claim for two years
service, and the Solicitor Of the Treasury
has just given an opinion that she is en-
titled to it.