The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-04-13
AL SORTS.

The pale of civilization; Pearl powder
It is said that Gail Hamilton can talk t.
twelve people at once.
When pastors preach against the vanity
of false things, the ladies know switch j
which.
1t is very easy to recollect an actress
age. Get it once fixed in your mind anc
you We got it forever.
| Worth is said to have made this remark
to a lady who was dowdily dressed
Madame, | cannot risk my reputation on
you"
"The young man who wants to get up
with the sum-" remarks the Middletown
Transcript must not sit up too late with
the daughter"
A Michigan girl has been arrested for
carrying revolver. That is right. No
females should be allowed to wear bangs
in her pocket.
The Boston Post says that Detroit
women yell the loudest at sight of rat.
but Buffalo girls the highest, so the honors
are even."
The biggest hustle of the season was
detected at the custom house in New York
the other day. A steamship passenger
had for forty yards of broadcloth wrapped
around her.
A Cincinnati young tlady who calls fash.
ions latest terms from the newspapers
threw a whole millinery store into state
of excitement by calling for "a pair of
hose nozzles," She wanted pair OF
CATERS.
Two centuries ago not one in hundred
wore stockings. Fifty years ago not boy
10 a thousand was allowed to run at
large at night, Fifty years ago not girl
in q thousand made waiting maid OF her
mother. Wonderful improvements in
this age!
The New York Herald has raised more
than $500, 900 for the Irish relief fund.
and woman in the city couldn't go to
church last Sunday because her bonnet
was six weeks old. We little dream,
while assisting others, of the suffering at
our own door!
London Truth tells this story of one of
the queens receptions; Ladies were
not less decolettee at this second draw
iug-room than at the first. One in press
ing forward. positively lost the whole of
the upper part of her dress, aud had to
be shrouded 10 shawls."
4 young lady belonging to the English
aristocracy signs her name, Lyona Decimia
Veronica Esytn Undine Cyssa Hylda
Rowena Adela Thyra Ursula Isabel
Blanche Delias Dysart Plantogenet!''
But her mother invariable calls out ''Ly.
now you just come in the house and tel!
that teller to go home,
Women can keep seorets A WoRces-
ter girl on friends solemnly promising
not to tell, told that she was going to
having iour new dresses costing sixty
dollars each. The friend rehgiously kept
her promise not to tell and the first
mentioned young lady doesn't speak to
her now
Miss Emma Abbott having been told
of some criticism OF the warmth of her
acting IN love scenes. responded: Il de-
test the conventional. STACEY, stupid, love
making scenes so often depicted by
women who meyer we're 10 love and know
nothing OF the passion. have been in
love. and know what am acting"
Emma r, asks the Springfield 70 }
Tribune this extraordinary question; DO
you think it right for a girl to sit on a
young mans Lap, even If she was engaged
to him?" Whereupon the editor gets off
a very extordinary lie; I'VE have had
no experience ip the matter referred TO"
Why dido t he say: lift was our girl and
OR lap. yes; if it was another girl and our
lap. yes: but if it was our girl and another
fellows lap, never"