Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-02-01

and chant the remainder OF the Lltany.
Sometimes, there are present at this SER
vice more than two thousand persons.
FIREs,oE cH.r-cHAT.
LARGE, fat women often go about with
the least bustle.-B0t0n.
IT is said that the first requisite for an
able-bodied aesthetic is intense laziness;
the second, lanky body; and the third,
an empty head.
cd jump at a proposal" said the
lively Miss Lottie. "Lottie my DEAR"
demonstrated her mother, remember
this is not leap-year.
WHERE one woman scans the horizon
for signs of the dawn of bright era, ten
are scouting among their neighbors try
ing to borrow saleratus.
"THE silliest man who ever lived"
wrote Fanny Fern, "has always known
enough when he says his prayers to
thank God he was not born woman"
The "idiot grim" much used in
society, is no less effective than what is
called the front teeth SMILE" INDUCED
in by those who have visited the dentist.
WORTH says that nine out of ten of
the dresses passed off in this country as
his are made in New York and Boston,
and would shock a French lady into fits.
FASHIONABLE weddings" says
contemporary. resemble parlor
matches-a good deal of noise and
aummery for the length of time the
flame lasts"
Mrs. Sw1ssHE1M says: Gas between
drowning country girl and getting her
employment in the city, rather think
I'd drown her, and SO get her out Of
harms way"
A sIx-YEAR-oLD was enveloped in a
shirt much too big for him. After
strutting about for some time he burst
out: "Oh, ma ! feel awful lonely in
this big shirt"
A sPUNKY eastern maiden declares
"that the fashion followed by so called
gentlemen of discommoding and crowd
ing past ladies to get drink or smoke
a cigaret between the acts is greater
nuisance than the Gainsborough."
To the question, "What is kiss?"
the Howard college paper thus answers:
"a monosyllable form of communica-
ton, composed only of labials, frequent
ly used as conjunction, although an
article, and more common than proper"
A SOCIETY exchange says: "With
charity for all and malice toward none"
is quite as good text to follow in writ.
ing up social events in life as to be put
on monuments of great and good men
who have loved their race with all it's
faults.
A WITTY French actress, who is soon
to be married to tragedian, was recent
" receiving the congratulations of some
friends, whom she suddenly interrupted
by saying: "But don't you think l
must be possessed of great courage to
marry man who has already made so
many people weep?"
THIS is we'll to remember, as will be
shown by giving the following extract
from an eastern paper, which prides it.
self upon its journalism: "Then with
napkins folded over their silken gar
ments the young men brought salads
and fruits and ices and coffee, and
placed them in their laps-in the young
ladies laps, not the young ladies in the
gentlemen's laps"
A GENTLEMAN gave party in honor of
a distinguished missionary lately re-
turned from his field of work. The
ladies appeared in very decollete dresses,
and as the host feared the style might
shock his reverence, he apologized to
him for it, saying that fashion demanded
it. sob, don't mind it at ali, replied
the missionary, II have been ten years
among the savages."
AN aesthetic wife: Moribund husband
Ito aesthetic wife," Well, Jennie, the
doctor says must soon leave you. Do
not grieve; have provided handsomely
for you in my will. You will keep my
memory green, won't you, my love?'
Esthetic wife (sobbing)-" Dearest,
will; and I will see that your grave il
kept green, also (refectingly), but MOI
one Of those horrid bright colors.
nice olive gray green, with an old go!l
tombstone, will look too awfully lovely
for anything" -The 7o,vn.
LABoUcHERE says in Truth: 'Paris
ians have found out how to make falls.
eyelashes. do not speak of the vulga
and well known trick of darkening th'
rim around the eye with all kinds o
: dirty compositions, or the more artistic
! plan of doing SO to one inside of the lid
, No, they actually draw q fine needle
threaded with dark hair, through tn
skin of the eyeld, forming long loops
! and after the process is over Il am toll
t it is painless one) splendid dar
t fringe wells the coquette's eyes"
AT the Grosvenor Gallery observer
. q young man with unmistakable roug
? upon his cheeks. I am told that tn
e fashion Of making up the complexion
= by no means unknown among our glide
3 youth. While young women initial
? men in the masculinity of their attire
mpty-headed young men perhaps deer
!, it advisable to endeavor to maintain tn
t true balance of things, by making thei
i faces resemble those of girls. It is
e noble and knightly enterprise, chivalri
d and worthy of praise !-L0nd0a Itutl
}, A Montana Farm.
q (Corres. st. Paul Pioneer Press]
=. Mr.. Curtiss HIS q fruit farm i
Helena on which he has 5000 currar
d bushes and 5000 gooseberry bushes
9 Last year he gathered off this farl
s 1000 quarts of strawberries, goosebe1
ries and raspberries, and ripened loo
Q bushels of tomatoes. His sales of fru
q during the fruiting season often ran 6
# high as $500 per day. But why 50
= more? This one little farm yields Nj
it Curtiss from $4,000 to $1,000 per Al
n mum, and he could sell ten times as muc
g fruit as he does if he could raiee i
Il Strawberries bring 40 cents to 81 pt
q quart. Raspberries so cents. curran1