Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-02-04
SOCIETY TALK.

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. lOc; Basarians ut 45@G0c.
SOCIETY TALK.
ALL bellies wait for the wedding rings
: THERE are $4,000 English women in
/; India.
PRETTY girls are very thick in Morocco.
The Moors don't consider girl pretty
: until she weighs over 200.
BosroN is 30 highly culchawed that
when two lovers break off mn engagement
they call it valedictoIy.
RECENTLY, Thomas Howe, of Barring
ton, N. H., aged 100, proposed to lady
of 50 and was rejected.
IT is leap year, of course, but after all
it doesn't look very well for young lady
to 60 home at two o'clock in the morning
after sparkling her beau.
IT will never do to advise the patriotic
Boston women to vote as they fight.
There would be too much scratching at
the polls.
A CLEVER English teacher has originat-
ed the idea of shopping classes, in which
girls might be taught how to buy dress
and housekeeping goods.
TI0Hr lacing should be encouraged in
every possible way. It kills off the fool
ish girls and leaves the sensible ones.
No healthy girl ever laces.
IT is very much the same with pop
ping corn as with popping the question.
1t is usually accompanied with some
agitation and a good deal Of warmth.
BLUE robes de mutt have not been
popular since freedom tore her "azure
robe of nigh" by catching it ON one of
the horns of the.moon.
A YOUNG lady attending balls and par
ties should have a female chaperone
until she Is able to call some other chap
her own.-NeW Orleans Picayunc.
THERE are 5000, 600 working women
in our country dependent on their own
resources for livelihood and such home
nnmfoEtA an9 snrrcaanainar- . they cea.
Cf0a1e. r. q @ ~
EvrHx American girl who goes to Italy
to learn how to sing thinks Il nice TO dis
gllise herself under foreign name %
that even her own relations don't know
her when she gets back.
THE Reynoldsville, Penn, paper re-
minds husbands that while their wives
may be fat and forty, they wear the same
graceful, delicate frame they wooed and
won ~ yeaIs ago.
A YOUNG lady went from Alabama to
Rome to marry an Italian count with
whom she had corresponded, but the
counts wife and four children raised 60
many objections that the marriage didn't
sake place. -
THERE are many hard tasks set for
women in this world, but few which they
find it impossible to perform. Still,
there never was q woman who could keep
. fur-lined circular from flying open and
showing the fur.-BostOn Transcript.
She wore bslted ulster csoal,
a. sa.n%,no "u,sonsI cs,i,sr So:n ~ Uth ~ 3.
! think Was red she wore.
SS.cs Shs esr.1sd nss =, ! ress.n' y nsl nose
And sI Who aaw her couldn't ten
Ine 'sdy from s-msn.
WIDOW VINO appears 20 De Denevo-
lent creature advertises IN the London
Times that sne mas engaged 70 receive
.nfee gentlemen OF good poeuon as
6oarders, ana wants three ladies' Of un-
denlabie position 70 board with her and
form an agreeable nome ON co-0pera-
tive prlncples
The bishop Of Manchester, who has
for quarter OF century been engaged
70 Miss Duncan, OF Bath, u g marry
ner next montn-uniess one or the other
nrkes M 2 con.fnry view oi tne project.
The clergy o. the diocese are mbsMib-
ing for present 70 his !ordship. the sub
scrlp'ions oeing nmited 70 one guinea.