Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-05-07
FEMININE FANCIEs.

is woman who is not curious.
Sally Jones says when she was in love
she felt as If she was in a tunnel with a
train of cars coming both ways.
LIE Sage says: "The pleasure of talk
ing is the inextinguishable passion of
woman, coeval with breathing"
Ten per cent of the husbands income
is what it is legally decided in England
he shall pay for his wife's dresses.
Some scribbling wretch says: "It
takes as much wit not to displease a
woman as it takes little to please her.
The difference between mode! wo-
man and q woman model is, one is a bare
possibility and the otheris s. naked fact.
A lady up town, joked the other day
about her nose, said: II had nothing
to do in shaping it. It was a. birth day
present.
Very few men realize the blessing of
good wife until a place between his
shoulder blades that he can't reach needs
scratching.
Woman consumes thirty six buttons
ON her single pair of kid gloves,
whereas man buttons his suspenders
with a single nail.
The 800 young women of Cleveland
who are pledged not to associate with
young men Of conviviaI habits, are get
ting terribly lonesome.
LAS hawk" remarks Cincinnati
enthusiast, "hOyering over brood of
young chickens, SO is widewer in the
vicinity of a group of fair girls"
A young lady refused to attend church
because her new hat had not been sent
home. ~ hate the devil and his works"
she said; "but hate an old fashioned
bonnet more"
An Illinois woman has written to one
OF the assistant stmaster-Generais to
pick her cut good husband. He at
once replied that it was not his business
to sort the mails, and she wasn't an
Ohio woman, anyhow.
Forty centuries may look down upon
us from the pinnacle of civilization
without discovering man bold enough
hammer while she is directing him
how to put down CARPET.
A San Francisco editor says that if old
Adam had had a mother-in-law to look
after him and his wife, it is more than
probable that this very day we might
have been able to caper about in the light
eeAN eSAAJ NOoouh1Vo vi Jul h1ob pdICHtr.
A fashionable young man lately pre-
scented his sweetheart with string of
pearls. AS she.hung them joyously about
her neck, a cloud came over her brow,
and she cried, "Beloved, do not pearls
betoken tears ?" Don't fear," was the
response, "them's imitation"
zruth.-Women may, perhaps, fancy
that they dress in order to be admired
by men, but they do not, They dress
against each other, and they dread each
others criticisms. Men very seldom
care for details, and if woman looks
well, and is not dowdy, she finds favor
in their eyes"
Buffalo Express" THE prettiest girl
in Paris this year, says the New York
Herald, lis an American girl What
nonsense is this? The prettiest girl
anywhere, and at all times, and under
all circumstances, is an American girl.
This too ingenious newspaper will be
telling us directly that apples are apples
and cheese is cheese. "-Herald p. I.
Where men spend their best efforts in
mastering technicalities SO that they
may express the nice gradations Of form
and the delicate qualities of color, wo-
A..SAi says I'LL LHS1lSu observer, are CHI
ried away by the beauty they perceive
quite as fully, and unlike the angels
that they are, they rush into strong col
ors and brilliant effects, attacking diff
culties that we fools of men would fear
to attempt.
The most beautiful Indian girl. ac-
cording to all accounts, now living, and
one who, by reason of her beauty, intel
ligence and spirit, has attained to a
unique influence which is acknowledged
among the warriors and defended by
twenty fiery brothers and cousins, is
Etisca, the white Forehead of the I'm
capapa's." Etisca is Sitting Bulbs nes.ee. |
She is only fifteen years old, straight as
an arrow, 1.-the as serpent, and eyesN
BILE.
A whoop-bang sort Of boy, with feet
as broad and flat as pie-tin, trotted
through the market yesterday, till he
reached stall kept by a single woman
lbout thirty years old. Hating there,
ne yelled out, Say, say! Youa, little
BOY has been run over and killed, ,Ul by
he bridge !"-"Oh, OH Heavens -oa
III -" she screamed, as she made, all
live under the counter. came up on the
outside, and started to follow the boy
After going ten feet she halted, looked
,ery foolish all of sudden, and re-
marked "What goose am! Why, I
init even marriedW