The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-11-25

The wife exclaimed, her temper gone
sis home so dull and dreary!'
''Not so, my love-" he said, mot so;
But man and wife are one, you know,
And when Pm alone, Pm weary"
lex.
A New Yorker is named Stealing,
and he hates the name; but he took
the curse off of it for his daughter
by making her Christian zane
worth"
The price OF wife in Siberia is
eight dogs, and an exceptionally
good wife is worth ten dogs. But
dogs are plenty in that country, and
u wife doesn't cost as much as the
number OF dogs seem to Indicate.
At one of the forthcoming Fifth |
avenue weddings, the cards for
which will be issued in a few days,
the bride will take new depart
ure" by wearing blue satin robe,
trimmed with pearls. The brides |
maids are to wear short, white silk
walking costumes.
Here is list of what one well
known Murray Hill dame brought
from Europe this week, and upon
which she paid 81, 800 duties: SIX
silk carriage costumes, four honnets,
ten dozen pairs assorted kids, six
pairs shoes, two pieces black silk,
i've sunshades, two wraps, and quite
collection of the newest jewelry.-
Elk.
Mrs. DeGroot, who has built a
church at Newark, New Jersey, at
her own expense, has had clause
put in The deed to the effect that If
fairs, festivals, or ether entertain
ments be held therein, the property
shall revert to the original owner.
1t is supposed that the benevolent
lady had at some time wrestled with
church stew.
1t is so strange! We see a mil
lion faces, we hear a million voices,
we meet a million women with flow
ers in their breasts, and light in
their fair eyes. aid they do not
touch US. Then we see one, and
she holds for US life or death, and
plays with them idly so often-as
idly as a child with toys. She is
not nobler, better or more beautiful
than were all those we passed and yet
the world is empty without her.
A plainly dressed little lady from
San Francisco, recently appeared at
a California watering place, and was
snubbed by all the ladies. She
sent home for her best dresses and
all her diamonds, and her two little
children were dressed In the height
of fashion. Everybody seemed anx
ious to make amends for past
slight, but she was extremely dis
tanJ to one and all. She cut them
In this way for week, then packed
up her nine Saratogs trunks and
sent them home, and resumed her
plain and comfortable vacation
clothes.
1t is hard for young mother,
who has not yet overcome the way
ward tendencies of her own youth
TAI nature, to realize the influence
she exerts over her own little ones.
She is constantly surrounded by
critical lmitators, who copy her
morals and manners. AS the moth
er is, so are the sons and daughters.
Ii "a family of children is blessed
with al intelligent mother, who is
delicate and refined in her manners.
and does not consider it necessary
TO be one woman in a drawing-room
and an entirely different person in
every day life, but who is q true
mother, and always a tender,
charming woman, you will invaria-
bly, see her habits of speech and
perfect manners repeated in her
children. Great, rough men ann
noisy, busy boys will always tone
down their voices and step lightly
and try to be more mannerly when
she stops to give them kind word
or a pleasant smile, for true moth
er will never fail to say or do all the
pleasant things that she can that
will in any way help or lift up and
cheer those whose lives are shaded
with care and toll. The mother OF
to-day rules the world of to.mor
row.
Higher education among the mid
die classes has, within the past few
! years, wrought far greater change
| in the social status of women than
all the vaporing wordiness about
their abstract rights and wrong
could ever have done; and here, as
In other cases, practice has shown
It's advantage over theory. Secure
N the possession of that power
which has been alphabetically iden.
titled with knowledge, the true
! 'girl of the period" regards as use
less and effete all questions as t.
her intellectual equality with men
And well she may do so, consider
ing the evidences of her power anC
9 capacity, in the face OF the world
7 Take. for instance, the recent exam
y nations of the London University
In French, two ladies stand in the
first class, none of their male rivals
having got beyond the second. III
German there is n lady in the frs
! class; while one has obtained honor,
in Latin, two in English. and two il
mathematics These, together witt
the student from NEWMAN, who
r has taken honors in botany and
chemistry, may smile at the old
fashioned prejudices which deny tc
wOmanhood any footing on the diff
ficult paths of science London
Telegraph.
Learning to Cook.
A Judicious mother will so man