Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1878-03-07
Man s Better-HUZf.
10 destroy weeds-marry widow.
Mrs. Eve inaugurated fall fashions.

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Jewelry of tigers claws is fashionable.
Perkins remarks that if women were al
lowed to vote there would be more scratch
ing done at the polls.
A woman never SO fully realizes her dc
pendence upon man as when she under
takes to sharpen lead pencil.
How is it that a woman sees so readil,
that she is lored, but never can find on
that she is loved no longer.-Paris paper.
When young lady hens handkerchie
for rich bachelor, she probably sews tina
she may reap.-Boston Adrc,1iser.
a young lady was asked upon her re
turn from church, last Sunday, what thu
text was, to which she unhesitatingly re
piled. "Blessed are the dressmakers.''
AS my wife at the window one beautiful
day, stood watching a man with mon.
key, cart came along with a broth of a
boy, who was driving stout little don.
key. 10 my wife then 1spoke, by way OF
joke, ''There's relation of yours in that
carriage" 10 which she replied, when
the donkey she spied, ''Ah, yes. relation
by marriage
"Father, you whipped me the other day
for biting Tommy!'' "Yes, my son. YOU
hurt him, and shall always whip you for
biting" swell, then, father, wish you
would whip sisters music teacher. for he
bit her on the mouth, this morning. and |
know he hurt her a good deal, for she put
her arms around his neck and tried to
choke him.
The old gentleman went into the parlor
the other night, at the witching hour of
ll:45, and found the room unlighted and
his daughter and dear friend occupying a
tete-a-tcte in the corner by the window.
''Evangaline, ''the old man said, sternly
this is scandalous.'' ''Yes, papa" she
answered sweetly, lit is candleless because
times are so hard, and lights cost so much,
that Ferdinand and said we should try
and get along with the starlight And
papa turned about in speechless amaze
ment, and tried to walk out of the room
through panel in the wallpaper!
The death Of fashion correspondent is
from Grand Rapids. Mich. She
tackled stray copy of Euclid, under the
impression that it was a sewing machine
book Of dress-patterns. She
struck Proposition V, in spherical trigo-
nometry, and gazed on it once and said;
Il know what fichu baating on purple
polonaise is. and have met with barege
cretonnes cut bias, but when it comes to
making dresses for bump-backed women.
and trimming them with isoceles and per-
pendiculars ut right angles to the plane
AEG. then, indeed. feel that | am not
fitted to solve life's terrible mystery
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, the wealthy
New York lady whose offer of prizes Tor
The three best essays on providing labor
Tor unemployed people excited general at
ention last summer, sets a good example
20 rich and benevolently inclined men, by |
dispensing her fortune while she is here to
attend to it personally, instead of distribut-
ng it by posthumous charity, at the risk |
If having her good intentions thwarted by !
,rasping relatives or ill.judging almo"crs.
Like most intelligent and noble women,
'he interests herself in the great national
luestions of the day, has bought of Mr..
the artist, his famous picture of
lincoln signing the proclamation of eman-
;ipation, for $4,000, and presented it to
he nation. Congress voted to accept this
gift, and on Lincoln's birthday.
Feb. 18th, it was formally presented and
lccepted.