The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-02-23
FANCLES FOR THE FAIR.

| AAShAAO WIN thC NOctuhiCy al 70
THE style of dressing hair with the
ladies is about an even thing now be
tween the door-knob and pitcher handle
pattern.
GOLD and silver inks are used by
ladies who desire to send written comrli
ments or social invitations in letters that
appear in sunlight or moonlight hues.
GAIL HAMILTON says one can be a
daughter, sister, friend, without i'm
parchment of ones sagaeity, but it's q
dreadful Endorsement of man &c
marry him.
New YORK Commercial Advertiser
The title of new piece of popular
music is The Maiden't Request" But,
strangely enough, it doesn't contain a
word about a sealskin cloak or solitaire
diamond.
RUSSIAN women go out of doors
with their children, but seldom with
their husbands; and man is not ex-
pected to take notice of another mans
wife by bowling to her when passing in
the street.
ST. LOUIS journal: An exchange
plaintively inquiries why little men
will be silly enough to marry big
women. The only answer we can pos
sibly give to the conundrum is: Because
big women are silly enough to marry
little men.
THERE appears to be growing liking
for the study of political economy among
females in London. OF seven prizes
given this year by the Golden Club to
the most successful students of the sub
ject five have been awarded to female
competitors.
A MARRIAGE, it is said will be ar
ranged between the Duke of Connaught,
Victoria's third son, and the Princess
Louise, daughter of Prince Frederick
Charles of Prussia. The Princess is
seventeen years of age, and much liked
by those who know her.
AGRICULTURAL labor occupies three
hundred and six women in New York
State; one woman is bee-raiser; forty
nine are eairy women; two thousand
one hundred and thirty-nine are farm
ers on their own account; fifty eight
are florists and sixty are gardeners.
BEING an "old maid " implies decision
OF character; neither shams, nor shows,
nor courtly manners, nor splendid per-
sons, have won them over; nor fair
promises, nor shallow tears. They
looked beyond the manner and the
dress, and finding no cheering indication
of depth of mind and sterling principles
they gave up the specious present for
the chance of a more solid future, and
determined, in hope, and patience, and
resignation, to "bide their time"
MISTAKEN.
was only little broken-hearted
| Yesterday.
When he and 80 coldlv parted
| On cur way.
thought his words of kindness
Some meaning bore
1t was all my foolish blindness
| Nothing more
lido not think that shall .orrow--
| Not much at least
| shall meet him on the morrow,
My love dream ceased.
One Of my foolish fancies only
And per- perhaps asi, feel little lonely
| Just to-dayi
LAST year 34,072 couples were united
in holy wedlock in London, no fewer
than 1861 of these being solemnized
in the Established Church. In &c, 267
cases marriage was by banns, the least
expensive mode. OF the $4,000 cele-
brations, 1853 were marriages of spin
sters and bachelors; 3,017 widowers again
tempted fortune with spinsters, while
| 1859 betook themselves to widows for
consolation. Widowers were captured
in greater numbers than widows, 4.776
of those manly natures having again
submitted to blissful bondage, while
| only 1886 female relicts had the nerve
or the good fortune to follow their ex-
ample.
EAsToN (Pa.) Free Press: We don't
want Moore Township girl for lung
tester. At singing school up there the
other night young man was Dragging
about the strength of his lungs, and in
vited girl in the company to hit him in
the breast. She said she was left-handed;
had been washing that day, and was
tired, and didn't feel very active, but at
his urgent request she let 20 at him.
When his friends went to pick him up
he said he thought he would die easier
lying down. He had lost all recollection
of having any lungs, but the young
woman consoled him by admitting that
she didn't hit him as hard as she might
have done, because she rather liked him.
AFTER japanese lover has proven
false to his vows, the deserted maiden
rises at about two o'clock in the morn
ing, and dons a white robe and high
sandals or clogs Her Golf is a metal
tripod, in which are thrust three lighted
candles; around her neck she hangs a
mirror, which falls upon her bosom
in her left hand she carries a small
straw 6gure-the efigy of her faithless
lover-and in her right she grasps a
hammer and nail, with which she nails
it to one of the sacred trees that sur
round the shrine. Then she prays for
the death of the traitor, vowing that if
her petition be heard she will herself
pull out the nails which offend the god
by wounding the mystic tree. Night
after night she comes to the shrine, and
each night she strikes in two more nails,
believing that every nail will shorten
her lovers life; for the god to save his
tree, will surely strike him dead, 1t is
curious illustration of the hold super
stition yet has on the japanese mind.
WATERMELONS are looming up in the
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