St. Landry democrat., 1879-05-03
WAITS AND yVIFI,gS.

| TIE ROAD II SLUNBEgIaNn
What is tbs roat TO Cumberland? and uho, .o..
| the baby GO
The road lias 7irai 5h through math,rs ar,,s vho.
| the sun is sinking Iu*.
tie goes by the drowsy land OF nod" 10 the land
OF "lullaby,"
When all wee lambs ave safe in the f,:d unde, Tho
evening sky.
BOLT little nishtsosn c can ard white faes
| washed sweet aud isir:
mother brushin. the tanglss out Of the slke,
| golden hair
'"o little tired satiny feet from the shoe and ina
stocking free,
Two little palms together caspe,l, n, the motbers
| patient knee;
"'fhe oaoy word that ara lowsily lisped to tho
tender Shepherds ear;
| And kiss that only the mot Ter can n,aco ., tina
| brow OF her baby dear;
a i'ttie Eo'rI had which nostIes at Last closa to
| tine mothers breast
And then the lullaby, SIT and low, singing tbs
| song of rest;
AMI closer and clos,r the b'us-veined Ida ara hill
| ing thu babyscyes
| ~ the road to Stun ,er-,anl Tim ao.r ,t,,
| Traveller hies.
For t7's IL the WY thr,u 4 mothers arms, all
| li'ln bib.es 90,
10 the heA"ttu: CnY OF Sunderland, when the
| san is mixing low.
~ he ! nles believe that physician
ought 10 b Z lied a soon as five OF his
patients have died
Some malignant slanderer SAYS:
Woman needs Nc eulogist, Tor he
| speaks for herself"
The head Of mule is to heavy for
she other portions of his body, Itmakes
his hind feet fly up too easy.
1t takes seven months to teach q
person to strop razor, and then We ex-
pect BARRIERS to shave us and not talk!
IT yu undertake to hire a man
be honest, yu will hav TO raise his wages
| very morning. and watch him dred phu
Gloss besides.-[Josh Billings.
And now the gay and festive frog
Within the marsh Is seen,
The l0ater seeks sunny spot
Upon the village green
The trade in patent liver pills
Becomes steady thing
The rhymer with pensive air
Indites an ode to spring.
As an eminent medical authority
has asserted that kissing and hugging
are dangerous to health, cynical Boston
paper recommends marriage as sure
preventive.
One reason why the south is not
favorite roaming ground for tramps, |
because it is the best section of country
on earth for dogs with eighteen teeth in
the front row.
Black is never used at funerals in
Russia, nor worn BY mourners. It is
only in England and America that peo>
pie look as horrible as they can in order
to advertise the death of relative.
Did you ever see two men, when
they stop on the street to talk, cross
over and back at every sentence? And
yet they do this on the stage in order to
appear natural.'
A lady writer is out with an article
entitled How to Catch Husband"
But her theory is all wrong Ask any
married woman how to catch husband
and she will reply, By the hair!
They all do it,
Love may be blind, but we have
yet to see young man who prefers the
gas turned on full head to a chat in
the moonlight 1t may be economy and
it may not-probably not.
-" There are too many women in the
world; sixty thousand more women
than men in Massachusetts" growled the
husband. "Tbat is the survival of the
ittest,' my DEAR" replied the wife.
John Stuart Mill had high appre
citation of his wife's powers, but those
who knew her say that she was simply
the echo of his own voice, repeating to
him his own thoughts and his own con-
illusions.
ON the boulevard You look sad?''
g Have you not heard2" "No." My
wife has been taken away" " Mine al
70, a month ago." "It was cold in the
,hest.' "In the case of my wife it was
he coachman."
If there is any one thing more than
mother that convinces man of the
progress of education in our common
chools, and the sound practical instrue-
ion communicated to ths rising gener"
,tion, it is to have his daughter bring
Tim a problem something like this: Ii
oxen consume 125 times the amount
# food required by Is of the square
cot of Is sheep, at cost of 1913 cents,
ow many oxen will be required to con-
ume the same amount required by ! of
he cube root of an equal number of
heep in ~ days time at cost OF 416
that amount and triumphantly point
, the answer at the foot of whole
ateful of figures as being 80, 1871, 1863
ken.
How Hot is the SUN?
rl, 4o~,,a~o+uro If the ann has YAs