St. Landry democrat., 1881-03-26
ALL SORTS.

c,rx b,etbren." said western
minister, "the preaching OF the ,,e gos
pei to some people IS Ike psns pJni in
water over a sponge-it s9akS ,:1'a the ~
and STAYS. To others It is like n 1mo
wind blowing through a chicken
COOP. Ny experience of this con, on
gregation is, that it contains moro :,
chicken-coops than sponees.
Moundville Presbyterian
~Givc me the hand that will new
er deceive me" said a young oles. a
land spris in the presence OF soms
young ladies the other evening" ~
young lady who had heard OF the the
Young mans propensity for the ne
gaming-table, d1yly remarked
guess a straight flush is about .1e
kind of hand you want. II buna'o
Baptist Record.
A Boston lady, who has two chll.
dren, boy of four and a glri %
nine, was interrogated by the Tor.
mer, the other day, as follows
How long have you been married, 'es.,
SON" How old is Mamie :? "sne {,
is nine." "How old am [ ?" "Four;
"Nine and four are thirteen: Ii
you've only been married 1even 81,
years how do you make that out
The mother explained, as well as
she could, but the boy did not seem
to be quite satished.-[Sunday
School Messenger. ..-..
Dean Stanley was not equal 10
his opportunities when he performed
the marriage ceremony OF Professor
Tvndall. The Dean should have
asked the groom: "Do you take
this anthropoid to be your co-ordl-
nate, to love with your centres, to
cherish with your whole cellular
tissue, until final molecular dis
turbance shall resolve its organism
into its primitive atoms? ?"
Ought woman of sixty to mar
ry? Certainly, if she has money
enough. A husband is an expen-
sive luxury, to be sure, and no wo-
man should take one recklessly. So
long as she is young and able-bod-
led, and can earn sufficient to sup
port two, the risk isn't SO great; but
a woman of sixty is too old for right
down hard work, and must have
capital Or remain single. This idea
of marrying a man and then leaving
him to starve isn't Christian, to say
the least of it, Susan B. Anthony.
How IT Works UP NoRTH.-In
a streak of economy the school
board of Fair Haven, N. j., recent
ly closed the colored school and
consigned the pupils to the white
school. Gradually the white schol-.
ars dropped out until the white
teacher was left alone with the COLI
ored children, and then he rebened.
The board finally employed another
colored teacher, and now both
schools are going on in the even
tenor Of their way Cincinnati
Times Star. .... .r
FEMALE PURITY.-They know
little of human nature, who know
not that more of moral education
may be conveyed in one glance Of q
mothers eye, than in a whole course
of reading and writing, under edu-
cational sergeants in primary
schools and gymnasia. OF all the
virtues, that which the domestic
family education of both sexes most
obviously inhuences-that which
marks more clearly than any other,
the moral condition OF society, the
home state of moral and religious
principles, the efficiency of those
principles in it, and the amount of
that moral restraint upon passions
and impulses, which it is the object
of education to attain-is undoubt-
ly female purity.-]Ex.
A generons disposition is SO often
in danger of being carried away
from necessary caution by the arts
of the designing, that the following
rl.le should always be borne in
mind "Never lend more than you
can safely afford to lose" Many
are they whose families, as well as
themselves, have suffered from the
neglect of this caution Rambler.
How to Tell the Age of the Ladies.