West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-10-05
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

DIsRAELI's wife did much to make
him eminent; she cheeTed, consoled, and
encouraged him in defeat.
DR.. HOLMES SAYS that crying widows
marry first. There is nothing like wet
weather for transplanting.
AN Irish lover remarks: dts very
great pleasure TO be alone, especially
when yer sweetheart is wild ye."
TwENTY-sEvEN button kid gloves
reach clear over the shoulder and but
ton down the back.-Bost9n Post.
The girls of San Antonio, Tex, wear
broad brimmed felt hats, hang parasols
like swords at their belts, and look like
bandits in skirts.
As the moon, visible or invisible, has
power over the tides, so the face of the
loved one, whether present or absent,
controls the soul.
The first lady lawyer i'm Switzerland
who has ever obtained the degree of
Doctor of Laws, has Just successfully
passed her examination.
This is not counterfeit, | hope"
said a lover, as he toyed with his sweet
hearts hand. "The best way to find
out is TO ring it," was the reply.
The Keokuk young fellows will only
court girls hereafter in houses run on
the European plan. Some obdurate
parent has been charging them for extra
meals.
A YOUNG miss says that when gen
tleman omits to remove his hat when he
meets n lady friend, il is because he dis
likes making public exhibition of the
ravages of time Boston Transcript.
A WOMAN from st. GATHERINGS, Can,
who wanted to move her mothers re-
mains from Poughkeepsie, n. Y, saved
an honest penny by packing the bones
In trunk and shipping it as baggage.
No moral man can conceive the com
mon sense OF woman wearing a trail
ing dress for no earthly purpose other
than TO meander around with the tail of
1T caught up on one ide.-Hdrtfori
Globe.
AN English lady, who is exceedingly
careful of ner complexion, is in the
habit OF wrapping up her face i'm raw
veal outlet every night before going To
bed, leaving openings in the mask for
her mouth, nostrils, and eyes.
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.
ALL honor to that brave Wisconsin
woman, Mrs. Charles Schleys, who left
luxurious home in Milwaukee To nurse
the sick in the yellow fever hospital at
Jackson, Miss. There is more heroism
i'm such an act than leading a charge
amid the fearforgetting excitement of
battle Utica Herald.
A MILLER in England, who had
beaten his wife and threatened his child
rem because summoned for not sending
the latter To school, was last month
seized by forty women, who hogged MIN
and then dragged him to pond, where,
while drenched with water, he implored
pardon for his misdeeds
The women of Cyprus, like all the
Greek women, chew great quantities of
mastic, imported from the island of Scio,
and deem it graceful to appear always
chewing the gum. 1t will soon be in
order for a later Byron to remark.
Maid of Cyprus, now we've come,
Leave, oh, leave off chewing gum"
THERE are moments in which human
ity lives years, as it were, but if at such
times any live century, it is when as
the young lover fondly kisses and
smooths the golden hair of his adored
one, and breathes forth blessings upon
1T, the regulating pins fall out and the
whole switch comes off in his hand
leaving her almost rs ald-headed az
Elijah.
LARGE square buckles for belts from
two to three inches broad are imported
in engraved silver, i'm pearl, and in let
mixed with steel. Everything indicates
that belted dress waists will continue i'm
favor. New belt ribbons are elabor.
ately embroidered by hand, or else bro
caded in the loom. Brightly lowered
belts are worn i'm Paris with black silk
and grenadiue dresses.
In her eighth annual report, Jennie
Collins, of Bofin's Bower, says: "Younr
girls are pretty we'll at all times, but the
middle-aged women married, widows,
and single) suffer I'm every occupation"
Yet in every kind of employment mid
dle-aged women are far far more relia-
BILE than young girls. They have got
the nonsense Out.of their heads, and are
not looking for a possible husband in
every new black coat they meet
THE ladies of Virginia, at the head
of which is Commodore Maury's daugh-
ter, have recently formed AN association Ia
pay Oft the State debt They propose to
meet it with heroic taxation aud still
more heroic economy They petition
the Legislature to impose an additional
zen cents on every hundred dollars
worth of taxable property, and pledge
Themselves to save the amount by di-
minished expenditure. IL is safe 10 say
/ the debt will now be paid
IIUsBAND-"Why not take that dress.
dear, and have done with itp Wife
| with cutting irony)-"Certainly, dar-
ling, if you don't mind the expense
Of having the drawing room refur.
nished." Husband" Drawing room re-
furnished g' Wife" Well, yes: YOU
\ can hardly expect me 60 sit ON n red
/ sofa with q magenta dress and should
have thought IL was more economical t0
have dress to suit the room than 90
have the room altered 10 suit the dress.
But you know best Of courscw
THE popularity Of the Harvest Moon
/ which Is the full moon Immediately prc.