The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-06-01
Pleasantries Concerning women.

see how SO drastic a proposal will be re-
ceived by the Italian Chamber.
Pleasantries Concerning Women.
A maid, as by Court records doth appear,
Whom If thousand dollars made so dear,
Unto her waiting lover sternly said:
''FOrego the weed before we go to wed.
For smoke take flame; I'll be that flames bright
To have your Anna, give up your Havana"
The wretch, when thus she brought him to the
scratch,
Lithis cigar and threw away the match.
Our mothers went thrice n year on solemn
shopping; their daughters stay home from
shopping just thrice a year-that is, on ma
tional holidays.
In the matrimonial market some choose
the man without the riches, and others the
riches without the man. In after life the
former live in flower garden and the latter
in a h~ot-house.
In Oshkosh lived a fair maiden who had
read with some alarm of the death of an In.
diana woman from tight lacing, the imme-
dia.e cause being an affection of the epigas-
trium. When her lover called that even
ing, and the light had been turned down as
usual, she said to him frankly: "Now, i
want you to be careful, Eugene; you're
worse than a CORSET" Eugene fsltered out:
'.Oh, Mary, WHY this coldness2" 'It isn't
GOODNESS at all" she replied; "but you hug
so tight you knock my epigastrium all out
of kilter."
The very latest, incest little idea if for 8
young lady to decorate a miniature below;
and send it TO her best gentleman friend. II
signifies Don't mind your poverty; l viii
raise the wind."-New Haven Register.
Girls are honest creatures. One at the
South End. on being charged with the reck.
less extravaganza of having seventy five
dresses and with having nine fellows in love
with her at once, was too honest to deny it
"Amantha," he marmured, with psthos il
his voice, "why do you culver at my touch
Why do you shrink from my embrace a.
the startled fawn trembles at the rustling O
the autumn leaves?" "I've been vacci
mated" she said.
'Oh / shall die before you do" said n lad
to M. Alexandra Dumas q few days ago II
Paris. IL kope not. madame he replied
Il trust that l shall precede you. 1t is thu
only opportunity allowed a man of passing
before a woman"
Vanity of vanities: If a girl has pretty
teeth she laughs often, if she's got a prett,
foot she'll wear a short dress and if She
got a neat hand she's fond of game of whist
and if the reverse she dislikes all of thes,
small affairs.-Unknown Solomon.
Any one would suppose that the employ
ment of sewing was the most peaceful ant
quiet occupation in the world, and yet it i
absolutely horrifying to hear ladies talkin,
about s%tilettos, bodkins, gorings. cuttings
whippings, lacings, cuttings and battings.
81 can't find a place in the city to suit me,
despairingly remarked Il house hunting lad,
TO her husband, yesterday. "Why SO, my
dear?" "Why, because-because-well,
YOU must know, l can't find a mantel Ions
enough for the crewel lambrequin 1 made
last winter"
A young lady at an Oshkosh Temperance
meeting said: Brethren and sisters, eide
is a necessity to me and l must have it. If
is decided that we are not to drink cider,
shall eat apples and get some young man t,
squeeze me, for | can't live without tn,
juice of the apple"
Let me see your tongue" said DIR. Gallo
mel to Mrs. Jones. For heavens sake
doctor, what are you thinking of - exclaim
ed Jones. "Don't do it, love" ne added ap
pealingly to his helpmeet, cit would be n,
curiosity with US, you know" And thel
she gave him q piece of it.
City belle Injecting country aunt: "Oh
I'm so glad to see you'll Come and see u
uext week, do, for I'm going to nave a Ger
man on Thursday" Aunt with severity
mot i, child; l don't want to see any on
of the family that's going to make a fool o
herself by marrying a foreigner
They had been engaged for a long tins
and one evening were reading the pape
together. "Look, love-" he exclaimed
'only S15 for a suit of clothesi" SIS it
wedding suit?" she asked, looking navel,
al her lover. "0h, no." he answered; 1T
a business suit" "Well, L meant business,
she replied.
He happened to press the foot of a youn,
lady who was sitting next to the door il
getting out of the street car. The damseI
COMPRISING her brow into an awe-inspirin,
frown, calculated: you clumsy wretch
"My dear young lady," he exclaimed, ''yor
should have feet large enough to be seer
and they wouldn't be trodden upon." He
brow relaxed, her eyes sparkled, her lip
smiled, and the injury was forgotten.
An English widow became rather nike,
by her grief, but when announcing tn
death of her husband she was not SO mix e.
that she lost sight of the main question
"His virtues were beyond price, and hi
beaver hats were only seventeen shilling:
He has left a widow and a large stock t,
be sold cheap at the old stand. He wa
snatched to the other world just as he hat
concluded an extensive purchase of fel
which he got so cheap that his widow cal
sell hats a fraction less thar any othe
house in London. Peace to his ashes; tn,
business will be carried on as usual"