The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-10-09
FOR THE LADIES.

DetrOlC girls say gOSn uarn H.
When time spares beauty he completes it.
Women do not read; they listen with the
eye.
Women wear corsets simply corsets
fashionable.
A woman would sooner rule heart than
| fill it; not so man.
Friendship between women is only a sus-
pension of hostillties
A woman need not always recall her age,
but she should never forget it.
1t takes as much wit not to displease
| woman as il takes to please her.
Heaven gave women tongue to ask ques-
tions with and eyes to give answers with.
A woman friendship is, as a rule, the
legacy of love or the aims of Indifference.
1t is surprising how near age brings wo-
man to death and now little it prepares her
| for it.
She-"What age do you think | amp He
| (gallantly)-'I don't know, but you don't
| look it,"
Nobody who goes to France can afford to
| return home before he has seen Rosa Bon
| heur in her blouse.
Massachusetts, married over 5000 bachel-
| ors last year and only 163 old maids. Susan
| B. Anthony, where are you?
The queen of Italy is called the handsomest
woman in Europe. One in her position needs
| all possible encouragement.
A smart woman suggests to us that what IS
needed in our public schools are principals
not men.-Keokuk Constitution.
A bride at Salem. Ind, said she was driven
crazy by the sound of dinner horn. She
| couldn't have been very hungry.
Two Japanese babies are hitched together
at the shoulders. The mother rejoices to see
| them so highly connected.-Graphic.
One of the singular features at the great
baby show is a red-haired white mother
| who exhibits black baDy with black woolly
hair. .<-.-.
A misapplication of terms: To call a
young lady who seduiously selects the
| dances in which she will take part hop
picker.
A French woman who can't make her foot
fit shoe, never thinks of trying a shoe to
fit her foot. She wears slippers or goes bare
footed.
A young lady in Illinois, skilled in arch
ery, disabled two tramps who were trying to
break into the house. She struck 'em with
q POKER.
Light blue stockings are going to be the
favorite color this fall, but lady who doesn't
| intend to fall out of cutter Is not obliged
| to invest.
In church, women think that they receive
| because they observe, and that they are
meditating when they are only holding their
| tongues.
Women attain perfection In but two de-
| partments of llterature-letters and me-
| moirs. They only write well when they
| imagine that they are talking.
Those women are to he pitied who pass
| their lives between the world and the thea
! ter; poor souls who have only fiction as a re
| lief from falsehood.
First lady: "Why do they call those balls
| foul?'' Second lady: "Don't know, unless
because the pesky things are continually fly
| ing over the fence"
Friend: "But why, dear, did you throw
over Percy for Harold?' well, you see,
H blends with my initials, and makes much
nicer monogram"
A woman's fall is something like that of
child. The first intimatlon that child has
that it has tumbled down is conveyed in the
fact of its being picked up.
Friendship is picnic to which all parties
contribute, and therefore is something
women can not understand. With them
one party or the other must stand treat.
Those dark eyed, velvet skinned italian
beauties you read of-the magnificent
creatures with midnight hair-can not, as
rule, write their own names or spell
them.
Patti makes her 1000 per night with her
voice, just as easy as other women sit and
retail fifteen cents worth of neighborhood
gossip, but she doesn't feel as good over
it.
Vassar college has two Japanese girls,
and the Philadel phia Chronicle says it is
an affecting sight to see the American girls
teaching them how to slide down the balus-
trade.
A Long Hill man vent 20 Coney island the
other day with two red headed Waterbury
girls, and every body thought that he was
the agent for an electric light manufactory
travelling with samples.
Women who would hesitate about crying
before q husband or a lover have no scruples
about shedding tears before an audience. 1t
is with their emotions as with their shoul-
ders-they are only displayed in public.
A cautious man may seek recreation in
toying with the hind hoofs> of the abrupt
mule, but only the most reckless Will follow
within couple of rods OF the agile young
woman who kicks her train into the air and
catches it on the fly.
According to one OF the Boston CORE
spondents, young lady at the White noun
tains has made and broken five engagements
this summer. 1t is nice question whether
to speak of her as an engagingor disengaging
young person.
II is the custom in France for the bride
groom to present the bride with three dresses
"a visiting dress, q travelling dress, and a re-
ception dress. According to existing FASH
ions the visiting dress is usually of faille or
faille and cashmere, the reception dress of
Indian cashmere and the travelling dress of
the same material, only coarser texture.