The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-17
vANITY'S F AIR.

VANlIYS FAlR.
Coral pink bids fair to be a very fashionable
shade.
Paniers have become so popular that cling
ing dresses begin to look old-fashioned.
Love knots should be tied with a single
btau.-HarJord Journal.
An aged girl prettily describes getting old,
as :" standing at life's west window"
The most popular man with the ladies is
the one who never met with q homely woman.
A witness being asked, i" What is your oc-
cupation?" replied, " My wife is a dress
maker"
It is very dangerous to make up your judg-
ment concerning a young lady's weight by
measuring her signs.
IL love men," said Queen Christine, of
, Sweden, " not because they are men,, but be-
cause they are not women"
When the Mayor of Leadville gets drunk
he loses his office, and the next best shot in
the city is escorted by the grateful citizens to
the city hall.
There is no more beautiful ornament for
lovely woman than lace beside its soft and
delicate folds diamonds lose much Of their
power to attract.
Somebody advertises for a servant girl
/" who would not be above placing herself on
an equality with the rest of the family"
When a man calls his wife "the women
folks" the Kingston Freeman says you may
set 1t down that she is one too much for him,
SO that he is obliged to designate her as plu-
raj.
Henry Ward Beecher, writing from Pitts
burg, while on his way to lecture for $3.50 a
night complacently says: 'Here are humid
reds of men who live on a dollar a day, and
lay up something every year"
A patent has been issued to Miss Harriet
G.. Hosmer, by the United States Patent Of
flee, for her process Of making artificial mar
BILE, regarding which so much has been said.
When an Oswego clergyman in a sermon
Sunday, said "the bloom Of youth is upon
many OF you," the ladies' gpt frightened and
covered their faces with their handkerchlefs.
The man who, wanting a servant, adver-
tised for a "middle-aged single woman"
doesn't understand why he has received no
application for the position.
A German Baroness, at Lake George, was
very much surprised when a lady knocked at
her door, and asked for a pattern of her black
silk overskirt! She didn't get it.
A Wisconsin lumberman offers $50 in cash,
for "a rattling good wife-one who ii is not too
high-nosed to grow fat on bean soup" All
females reaching this point eau go through
without change of cars.
Panseron had a comma for a nose, but nev-
ertheless, consumed pecks Of snuff and cease
lessly fourished a handkerchief as big as the
mainsail Of a frigate. "Iknow why you do So"
said Cherubini to him one day Its to make
people think you have a nose."
Two ladies once commended for the prece-
dence at the court Of Charles v. They ap-
pealed to the monarch, who, like Solomon,
awarded: "Let the elder 60 first" Such a
dispute was never known a~fterward.
Al an evening party one lady was making
an asp of herself in the matter of another, of
wtom she said vehemently that there wasn't
such another in the city for everything that
was unladylike or ~unwomanly. "Sh-sh, my
DEAR" whispered a friend to her, "you are
forgetting yourself."
When We read of y man torsakine bis
wife and children, our FIRST thought is OF the
superlative meaaness Of the fellow; but sec
ond thoughts show how much wiser he il
than we are. He certainly could do no more
noble and generous act than relieve his fam
Nv Of such a burden Of cussedness.
Miss Aoegier, Of Chicago, has won a posi-
tion = assistant physician in the County In
sans Asylum, by her success in a competitive
e~xaaninafion. This is the first case where a
woman has obtained a hospital position
where both sexes have entered into competi-
tiOn.
The ladies Of Sherman, Texas, sometimes
indulge In the sports Of tile chase. and the
osher day = beyy Of them went out with Al.
tsadant gentlemen. They had a number of
exciting traces for JACK rabb bits, aud three or
aonr g we iair ones were suddenly plecipi-
- Vom sAslr nying steeds, and though not
~eesiously Injured, had TO be taken home In I
4fuer's wagon.