The Osceola times., 1879-12-13


And his eyes were opened wide
Ason tptoc they came dancing
Der the muddy, sloppy tide.
When lady and her daughter,
stepping carefully along,
Closely yelled from street inspection.
Heard the Shiny. ycnumod tongue.
Then little veil was lifted,
And with shame his head was hung,
For his mother and his sister
Thus had struck the speaker dumb.
N y. Telegram.
A woMAN's OPINION OF MAN.
Mrs. Duniway, of the New Northwest,
at literary reunion at Salem, Oregon,
TOASTED" the gentlemen as follows:
God bless 'cml They halye our joys,
they double our SORROWS, they treble our
expenses, they quadruple our cares, they
excite our magnanimity, they increase
our seli-respect, they awake our enthu-
siasm, they arouse our affections, they
control our property and out-manGuvre
us in everything. This would bea very
dreary world without 'em, In fact |
may say, without prospect of successful
contradiction, that without 'em 1t would
not be much of world anyhow. We
love 'em, and the dear beings can't help
it; we control 'em, and the precious fel-
lows don't know it.
As husbands they are always convc-
nient, though not always at hand; as
beaux they are by no means matchless.
Thev are most agreeable visitors, they
are handy at State fairs and indispensa-
bic at oyster saloons. They are splendid
as escorts forsome other fellows wife or
sister, and as friends they are better
than women. As our fathers, thew are
inexpressibly grand. A man may be q
failure in business, a wreck in constitu-
tion, not enough to boast Of as beauty,
nothing as a wit, less than nothing rs Il
legislator for women's rights, and even
not very brilliant as member of the
press; but If he is our own father We
overlook his shortcomings and cover his
peccadillocs with the divine mantle of
charity. Then, as our husbands, how
we love to parade them as paragonsl In
the sublime language of the inspired
poet;
Wen lie for them,
Wen cry for th,m,
And IL we could we'd fly for them,
We'd do anything but die for them.
WOMEN on SCHOOL BOARDS.
The ladics-Miss Helen Taylor, Miss
Fcnwick- Miller, Mrs. Westlakc and Mrs.
Surr-who have been for some years
now on the London School Board, have
dene such service that many electors OF
Chelsea propose to add another lady
thereto. The new candidate is Mrs Au-
gustta Webster, wife of an eminent bar
rister, and an authoress Of several liter
airy works. When the first school board
WAS elected there was good deal of az
bition felt by eminent men TO belong TO
it, even Professor Huxley having under
gone laborious canvass. But he and
others found the labors too arduous, and
left the board, but the ladies elected
have stuck to it, made it the great end
of their lives, attended all the meetings,
and have been the means of passing i'm
portant reforms. A school board with
out women would now be an anomaly
quite out of the question. In the last
session. In the last session of Parlia-
ment the leader of the House of Com
mons, Sir Stafford Northcote, said that
after the country's experience of the
way in which women exercised their
right of suffrage in municipal and school
board elections, it could be no longer
said that the sex was untitled for the
parliamentary franchise, and that the
government would now adopt that meas
urc only because it would require more
elaborate preparation than they had OPP
portunity to give it. The services which
women are rendering to national educa-
ton are such as must command the ma
tional gratitude still more, and are likely
to lead to the general enfranchiscment
of their sex.-CinciaRdti Commercial.
lie SUSPECTED HER.
There is a man in Cleveland who has
new and very pretty young wife. He
has long suspected her--(now let the
reader keep quiet, this is not the kind of
story he thinks il isl lie has long
suspected her Of being too free with-his
money; and when the other day he lost
his pocketbook containing 1855, he ina
mediately called policeman and had
his blooming bride shown TO hei dun
geon cell in the city prison. She wept
her pretty eyes very red for q day and
night, and then old January found his
pockctbook where he had dropped it,
behind pile of beer kegs, and he hast
oned 10 release May from her dismal
confinement. She will be less than wo-
man if she does not take fearful re-
Vcnge.-IOtcd0 Btdde.
ALL SORTS.
FASHIONABLE young ladies of London
are studying the classics and philosophy.
but play lawn tennis all the same.
Miss ANNA Book, an American lady
who studied with List, is said TO have
distinguished herself abroad by her ex-
cellent artistic work on the piano.
Mrs. GRANT has caught some fish in
the big reservoir at Virginia. Mrs.
Hayes and the Princess Louise may as
well understand that some persons can
do things just as well as some other per-
sons.
BosroN was probably the first city in
the world where women engaged in the
study of medicine, and at the Medical
College there they now have lady
demonstration in anatomy! Also three
other ladies in the faculty, one who lee
tures on the diseases of women and the
other on the diseases of children.
THE Association for Promoting the
Higher Education of Women, at Oxford,
is how in working order A scheme of
lectures has been issued, and the two
boarding houses, the Lady Margaret and
Somerville- Halls, have each their full
complement, or nearly so, of students,
in all about 23 quite a sufficient number
to start with: =. a..
FASHIONS wHIMs.
R,pREp velvet is much worn.
SEALsKIs fringe is late novelty.
BRIDAL wfeaths are in diadcm form.
PAINTED gauze bail dresses will be
worn.
The most popular bonnet is the Direc.
toire.