The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-06-26

A little child, knee-deep in meadow grasses,
Her tiny apron heaped with Blooms Of
Lightly above her head the soft wind passes.
Sweetly along her way the blue birds sing.
Quick fly the eager glances hither thither,
The little grasping fingers knew no bound;
Already some fair buds begin to wither,
Some softly drop unnoticed to the ground.
No matter now the world is fun of sweetness:
Stretches the field before her wide and gay:
Blithe little heart that knows no Incomplete
No touch OF gloom in all the sunny day.
All, gladly take what spring time brings of
Each tender blossomed joy of childhoods
Thou may'st search vainly for one wayside
Matrimony has been defined 20 be an in
sane idea on the part of a man TO pay some
woman's board.
Boston paper is mean enough TO say that
Gail Hamilton must ever remember that she
was born to ride sideways horse.
Twill you love me then as now2n 'sWell,
sweetest, that depends. Don't borrow from
the future, for it's foolish finahciering.n
At recent dinner of shomemakers the
following toast was given: May we have
all the women in the country to shoe, and
| all the men to boot"
| A married man in Chicago has invented
an indiarubber rolling-pin that will roll out
| the dough very evenly and yet bend to the
| head when it strikes. l4tT
| The duchess of Edinburgh is said to be re-
sponsible for most of the scandslous stores
| about the escapades of the prince OF Wales,
which have made such trouble between him
and his wife. ea ,-r
The lady who bought a hoe, rake, spanle,
| buckskin gloves, straw hat and sprinkling-
pot about May is through with gardening
Tor her health. She is one pig-weed ahead.
Free Press. tf
An Illinois young lady was driven to sui
eide by "buzzlng in her ears" Young
men who are urging their suit with great
persistence should heed the warning con-
| tanned III this item.
Miss Won Hillern and two other young
women have made their home in a barn,
| fitted up a studio, near st. Johnsbury,
| Vermont, to study and sketch from nature
with brush and pencil.
Powder and gloves are the last things put
/ on girl going TO party.-Bszar. You are
not going to get us to ask what is the first, If
| we never find out. Besides we don't wapt
to know.-Oil City Derrick.
The reason why woman can never hit
the thing she throws at is said to be on &C
| count of her collar bone being several inches
| longer and located lower down than that of
a man, interfering with the free action of
her shoulder. And yet the world is full of
blue nosed fogles who do not believe every
| thing mas been ordained for the best.
Customs differ in different countries. A
| constable triedtoserye a warrant IN Chicago,
when the woman for whom it was intenaed
shot him dead, and Chicago jury triumph
| antly acquitted her. Recently London
| (England) process server was kicked down
| stairs by an indignant and generous footed
woman on whom he attempted to serve the
writ. The suit that followed has just ended,
| and the woman in the case has had to pay
the injured individual Sl05 for assisting his
descent Better is it to kill a man in Chics-
| go than to raise the foot to a London official.
Miss Clara Louise kellogg has no husband
and never had one, and makes boast of it.
| She has no fancy for singing her throat sore
| for a man to see her to and from the the
| atre and smoke line cigars and drink costly
| wines between the opera acts on her money,
and fly into great rage if any other man
| should happen to blink at her. She
has seen enough of this matrimonial
| economy to satisfy her On the other
4 hand Nine. lima Di Murska has bad
more matrimonial experience than general
| ly falls to the lot of one woman. She is
| living with her sixth husband, and has had
bad luck with some of them, too. But she
| persevered and lost no lime IN repairing
damages and sOlacing bereavements. Both
| are exceptional cases, and ought to prove
whether il is better or worse for q popular
| prima donna o dramatic star to marry or not
| to marry. That is the question and the
sum of happiness of Di Murska and Kel-
logg, if it could be figured up, ought to
| settle 1t.
Worth says there are very few women who
know how 10 sit down in one of his dresses,
and the remark is even more true OF short
dresses. Half an hour spent in city horse
car is enough 10 make one sigh for the days
| when dancing masters taught their pupils
how to enter a room and take chair. Lady
number one sits down sideways, and looks
| very pretty until the conductor says Move
up, ma'am," and then her face is darkened
by frowns and the skirts are drawn about her
| IN shapeless ugllness. Number two crosses
her feet, in defiance of the fact that her
boots are very obviously number fves Num-
| ber three's right shoe peeps out from under
gown about twenty four inches from her
left one, giving her a Mother Bunch air
| which would be funnyif it were not so
painfully engraceful, and number four ex-
tendsone loot into the aisle aS ii challenging
| the world TO stumble over 1t. The long
dresses hide these freaks of bad manners
| but the short costumes reveal them piti,ess-
| ly, and unless LADIES WHO unWltungly prac-
/ tice them reform little men will CRY out
| that the new dresses are ugly, simply be-
cause they do not conceal ungracefulness.
Instead of sayin.; that there is an excess of
| &c, 600 women in Massachusetts,, we shall be
| able to reason more clearly il we say that
| there are &c, 900 unmarried women in that
/ interesting state. If the facts stated in
this way, we at once see that instead of tiou-
bling themselves about over production. we
| should merely ask, Why are these women uL-
married? The answer is not difficult to find.
| These women are unmarried because they
| are of pattern which has of late years gone
out of fashion. About the same time as the
gray trousers of England drove out the black
| broadcloth Trousers, which in connection
| with the black satin waistcoat and dress cont,
| formerly constituted the walking costume Of
the American citizen there was introduc-
/ ed the plump English style o. girl. The
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