The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-12-04
WAITS.

| A lady contributor tells this story:
II had been out in Westchester eOun-
ty ON q visit, and while there 1 found
q kitten which brought home as
plaything for my two children. To pre-
vent any dispute about the ownership
Of puss, l proposed, and it was agreed,
that the head should bemine, the body
should be the baby's, AMI Eddy, the
eldest, but 3 years, should be the sole
proprietor of the long and beautiful
tail. Eddy rather objected at first to
this division. as putting him Off with
an extremely small share Of the ami
NAL, but soon became recOnciled to
! the division and quite proud of his
ownership in the graceful terminus of
the kitten. One day soon after heard
poor puss making dreadful mewing,
and called out to Eddy, There, my
| son, you are hurting my part of the
kitten; heard her cry no, didn't
mother; trOd on my part and your
part hollered.'"
They linger by the brookside no
longer. No longer by the sunsets
ruddy glow do they. hand in hand,
stray down the leafy path contemplate
ing the beauties Of nature and the love-
illness of each other. BY the gaslight's
| feeble flicker, with the genial warmth
Of the parlOr register, all pervading,
they sit and sigh the hours away. lis
love. Ills lovely. IT'S lOvelier far
than 1t will be when in future years
the cold chill of indifference takes pos
session of their hearts, and they have
first-class Jaw" every morning rs to
who shall be first to step u foot upon
the frigid Oiicloth.
You never see q woman button any
thing that she can pin, and you never
see man pin anything that he can
tie with string. You would have
trouble making some men believe that
they couldn't tie II bultonhole into Il
wristband with piece of Irvine.
Celine Montaland, who was one of
the attractions of the Grand opera
house in the Jim Fisk days. and who
was afterward the defendant AT Paris
in lawsuit brought to compel her to
pay man who had treated her for
obesity, is now the star of the new
theatre, Les Nourveautes. Though
still fieshy, she is described as very
beautiful, and she wears q dress that
cost s., 900.
A woman who had buried four hus-
bands WAS sadly contemplating their
pictures. "IOur poor father is in heav-
en-, hope" she said to her little D.
year-Old. (Which one mamma ," ill.,
quired the little innocent. why
your own, own dear father" "And
are the others all burned up" The
mother didn't answer the conundrum.
A young woman of Smyrna, n. Y,
had q dream many years ago of eight
men standing before her in row,
with Outstretched bonds. She inter
prcted this to mean that she would
nave eight husbands. Her seventh
husband died lately. and although she
is now 81 years old, she is confident
that the dream will be fulfilled.
The western lady who read i'm n
newspaper that baking powder WAS Il
good thing, thought that she'd bake
some, ana her Old man on arriving
where the cabin had stood said he
wouldn't mind the affair SO much if
she'd let the dog out before blowing
herself and the property 10 glory in
that style.
A fashion exchange says short even
ing dresses will be worn this winter
The Boston Post dOesn't see why ladies
should wear short evening dresses IN
the winter when the evenings are not
short, but long.
The Zulu lady wears her wedding
ring in her nose. A double purpose is
thus served. 1t discOurages promis-
cuOus kissing, and she is in little dan
ger Of losing her ring. She always
nose where it is.
Here's chance for some Of you boys
who want to get married: An ecOno-
mic North Wheeling girl has knocked
the bottom out of an empty cheesebox
and now wears it As II fashionable belt.
Widows should beware OF old bach
elors who promise to give their child
rem ponies and Newfoundland dogs
after the happy day. They never do it.
Two cOlored woman i'm Atlanta are
! reported to have traded children. Who
will say hereafter that the Ethiopian
can not change his kin.
Bernhard rOmances are now what
! they call stories having the appear
ance of being too thin.
Nothing 50 quickly dries woman's
tear As u kiss