Richland beacon. [volume] (Rayville, La.) 1869-1890, 1880-05-08
FANCIES FOR THE FAIR.

WHERE money is plenty divorces are
plenty.
Even in the hottest weather, a school
ma'am always keeps school.
HrGABLE young ladies can claim dis
tinctiOn a, belonging to the press.
PROBABLY Eve died OF the jim.Iams
1t is recorded that she saw snakes.
A FELLOW feline makes old maids
wOndrOus kina.-Oa City Derrick.
The gold-headed hair.pin will never
do. 1t can't be used for button.hook.
HASTE makes waist, even 20 the
young lady who hasn't time to properly
her cOrsets.
AN Oil City girl has a lover named
Cracker, and her parents named her
Polly-because Polly wants Cracker.
A LONDON society paper says that
American women would he far more
beautiful, if they weighed about two
hundred pounds apiece.
AN Indian girl who was suddenly
kissed at a party has become insane.
such things should be talked over a
whole week beforehand.
The New York Graphic estimates
that eight out of every ten men who
kiss lone women are made sorry for it.
Lone women should kiss each other.
ELASTIC Goth seems to be the rage in
England. Elastic pOlOnaises wuven all
IN one piece, cut into long points on the
lower edge, and button.d at the back,
nre the last inventions.
PLAY spades if you would win pota
toes; play clubs if you would deal with
ruffian; play hearts if you would win
friendship; play diamor DIS if you would
win wOman.--B Boston Transcript
You've lad es who wish to have small
mouths are advised to repeat this at fire.
guent intervals during the day: Fanny
Finch fried five houudering frogs fol
Francis Fowler's her."-Andrews
Queen.
WHAT do you suppose we'll say
when We meet in heaven, GeOrger" said
she; "Say? | know what you'll say,
darling" Ne say! What| "Why,
you'll say: told you 80. knew Just
how it would be up here"
HARPER's Bazar says that in New
York white Petticoats are entirely aban-
doned. and there are in preparation for
the coming .easOn petticOats of black
fOulard or Surah, trimmed with narrow
fOunces which are edged with white
lace, or else with lace embroidered with
silk or wool in red, rose, blue or orange.
The lady who has invented method
Tor women to put on their clothing with
out the use Of pins deserves 10 have
her name inscribed head and shoulders
above every other name in the temple
OF fame. She probably knows some.
thing of the dangers that beset fellow
VINO gets too near the pin protected fe-
male.
A STYLISH woman entered the gallery
OF George Elliot, photographer, at Co.
iumbus, Ohio, the other day, and a-ked
leave to have the picture of her baby
taken. The baby was placed in position
before the camera and the photographer
went to work. The woman slipped Out.
and away, and the BABY is still on the
photographers hands.
IT il Brooklyn wife who sings this,
using the Eagle for medium:
=" In short, docs female Suffrage
Propose 10 change my lot,
By giving me hereafter
Something haven't gOt7
uyes, Ill join your army
Aud struggle all can.
no. why III. n God bless you.
Ill stick TO NY old man."
A GIRL employed in a New England
match factory wrote her name or q box
of matches several years ago. The box
was purchased by a Western college stu
dent, who wrote to the girl and year
latee married her. A new way for
mitch factory to make match. Boxes
OF matches decorated with female names
will no doubt be numerous hereafter.
but euch matches are seldom struck more
than once.
A UNITED STATES SENATOR says that
he would never give fix for girl who
could not answer these questions: "HOw
long must hen set before chickens are
Matched? How long does a turkey set
before Matching brOOd2 How old must
chickens be before they are fit to broiI?
At whatsge may youog pigs be roasted p
he has trained his daughter on these
points, and ia proud to say that she can
pass the examination successfully.
WHAT a refreshing thirg it is to hear
Jennie June say, "Artl taste! novelty!
What nonsense it all is, when our
highest art is to reproduce something
found in some old Egyptian tomb,
buried for ages, and our latest effort at
taste to revive the crude efforts in color
worshipped BY oulgreat aunts, Jcrusha
or Samanths." Precisely, and what
nonsense it is to talk about harmony
with those yellow raw bonnets making
the most quiet dress seem gIaringly
gaudy.