Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-02-20

% She tries each would-b, sutton in the scale
That social scale. whose balance does not fail;
30 much for wealth, so much for noble blood,
Deduct for age, or for some clinging mud.
Her daughte 3, too, we'll tutored by her art,
All unreiuctant in her game take part;
OF, weakly passive yield themselves to fate,
Knowing full well resistance is too late.
Thus are the victims to the altar led, 49,
With shining robes and flowers upon the head; E
There, at the oily shrine mid sacred ~ vows,
SIZE fancies heaven will tless what earth allows,
And sells her child to Mammon with . smile,
While Mephistopheles approves the style!
Common Sense of Women.
To tell the truth, we are surprised
that the women folks show The amount
of common sense they do. Young man,
supposing you were told, say twenty
times a day, how bright your eyes are,
what magnificent tresses are yours, how
enchanting your society is; how incest,
sweetest, best you are; how long, think
you, before you would develop into the
assiest kind Of a jackass- always pro-
vided you we're not one at the start ~
Masculine and Feminine Morality.
IEcould never understand the oppo-
site systems of weights and measures
which have been established for gaug-
ing morality among men and women.
The. strictest among us allow that q
young man should SOW. his wild oats !;
but. who ever admitted the same neces-
gity in the case of girls? We say that
man should have his amusements- hia
clubs, cigars, race horses, firtations and
iquorings; but supposing our women
and girls came to us reeking of tobacco?
Surprising they addicted themselves
openly to nips of grog and absinthe
when their spirits were low? Suppos-
ing they sat down to quiet rubbers of
whist or ecarte, gambling away their
household money to while off the dull
hours? We demand so much excellence
of our women that the. worst of them
are still better than the average man. I
have known some women who were
social outcasts, and who in point of
heart, conduct and general moral recti-
tude, might have furnished stuff for
the making of upright gentlemen, in
deed. They had fallen once, it is true,
but what a fearful penalty they had
been made to pay for that one slip, while,
by comparison, the kindred penalties
of men are so slight. If young man
gets mixed up in some disgraceful en-
tanglement, breaks heart, and throws
young girl upon the streets, after
having ruined her life, people say of
him, compassionate]y, by-and-by, "'He
was SO young when he did it, and now
ne has turned over new leaf;" but if
an inexperienced girl, mere child of
Is or II, comes to harm through mo-
ment's weakness, born of too much love
and over-confdence in her betrayer,
who ever thinks of pleading her youth
as an excuse? Who ever urges, serious
ly, that girl 'shas turned over a new
leaf?"- Elizabeth Blackwell, NJ. D.
How She Kept IN Expense Account.
my dear fellow" said Lavender,
sits all very nice to talk about econo-
MIXING and keeping a Ri ht rigid &C.
count of expenses and all that sort of
thing, but I've tried it. Two weeks
ago I stopped on my way home Satur-
day night, and bought just the gayest
little Russia-leather, cream-laid paper
account book you ever saw, and silver
pencil to match it. I said to my wife,
after supper: my dear, it seems to me
that it costs a lot of money to keep
house,
"She sighed and said, I know
it does, Lavvy, but I'm sure can't help
it. I'm just as economical as I can be.
I don't spend half as much money for
candy as you do for cigars
Il never take sny notice of person.
alities, so I sailed right ahead. I be-
ieve, my dear, that if we we're to keep
q strict account of everything we spend
we could tell just where to cut down.
I've bought you little account book,
and every Monday morning I'll give
you some money, and you can set it
down on one side. and then during the
week you can set down on the other
side everything you spend, and then on
Saturday night we can go over it and
see just where the money goes and how
we can boil things down little
"Wel, sir, she was just delighted
thought it was frst-rate plan, and the
pocket account book was lovely-regu-
lar David Copperfield and Dora bust
ness. Well, sir, the next Saturday
night We got through supper and she
brought out the account book as proud
as possible, and handed it over for in
spection. On one side was, Received
from Lavvy $50. That's all right
Then I looked on tho other page, and
what do you think was there? Spent
it ALL! Then I laughed, and, of course,
we gave up the account-book racket on
the spot, by mutual consent. Yes, sir,
I've been there, and I know what do
mestic economy means, tell you.
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