Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1883-09-14

y new cigar is appropriately calle
!" the Mother in Law" 1t is alway
" sure to get the best of fellow.
Oscar Wilde is describing tn
American girl to English audience
n as IA pretty oasis of unreasonable
r ness in dessert of common sense "
It The two girls who attempted f
e popularlze Mother Hubbard dressa
o at Collins, Col, thereby excited
mob to hostile demonstrations.
Several beautifully arched eve
, brows were discovered in a room OF
. Grand avenue, just vacated by ,
young lady who is spending the sum
S mer months at Lake Minnetonka.
The Alice des Acacias, Paris. is on
/ llvened by three Cuban women in 3
I superb carriage. Each evening they
appear IN new toilets, now in blue
now III white, now in aesthetic comb.
> nations of color.
One of the principal graces OF
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was
prodlgious abundance of fine hair.
One day, at her toilet, to anger her
heroic lord, she cut off her command
ing tresses and flung them in his
face.
| A c0lored girl in Atlanta, Ga, was
knocked over by an engine, and in a
few minutes got up as if nothing un
usual had happened, and, looking af-
ter the engine. said: "You's cot n
heap Oh politeness to serve a lady dat
wayw
Woman who has been looking over
blankets in a Main street store.
well, | didn't mean to buy. Am
Just looking for friend" ''Clerk.
politely: Don't think you'll find
your friend among the blankets
We've looked 'em all through"
Some young ladies have invented
a new plan for securing husbands.
They. go out boating with the man
OF their choice, cortrive to upset the
boat, then grab him and save his life.
the victim generally showing his
gratitude by marrying his preserver."
IL Is novel scheme-for young Ia
dies who Can swim; but the proba-
blllfIes are that a few years after
marriage the man will regret that his
life was saved.
Madame Hurtrelle, lady of posi-
ton IN Paris, has been arrested for
drunkenness. In defense she stated
that she had read that the surest way
OF preserving furs from the ravages
OF moths was to stow them away in
an empty spirit cask. She accord
lnSly purchased one and confided to
it her cloak. The weather being
chilly. she required the garment, and
the alcoholic fumes produced intoxi-
cation. She was acquitted. |
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton is
the guest of some of the English no,
bility of Devonshire.
Nine. Michelet announces a yo!-
ume upon the early life of her hus-
band, Eased upon typographical
memoranda found among his papers
Miss Agnes Emery won the How
land prize, at the commencement Of I!
the University of Kansas, for the |
best essay Oh Civil Service Reform"
In the Cambridge mathematical
tripos this year the name of one of |
the young lady students at Girton
College is ranked between the |
twentieth and twenty first wranglers. |
Lucy Stone was horrified when q
Mormon elder out West told her |
that there was flourishing Mormon
Church in Boston. We can show her |
worse things than that in Boston and |
not haif try
A granddaughter of Robert Burns,
is, it is asserted, at present IN receipt |
of relief from the London Scottish |
Corporation. Her name is Mrs.
Pyrke. She is the daughter of the
poets eldest son, Robert.
Mrs Abigail Scott Duniway is
writing a remarkable serial story for
her paper. the The Northwest. mt |
Portland, Ore, in which she develops
certain phases of woma;'s rights and |
wrongs with great vigor.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt had made
for her, just before her departure for
Europe, a large cameo portrait of her |
father, the late Peter Cooper. 1t is
oval, about two inches in diameter.
and was made by the artist Zoellner.
Lay your finger on your pulse, and |
know that every stroke some woman
is telling a secret to her neighbor |
through the knot hole of a fence.
Seeing a carriage full of bellies and
beaux drive by. Aminadab remarked
that thet reminded him of load of |
wooed.
They call it a romantic marriage
when couple of the neighbors get
the brides father into a back rom
and sit on him to prevent his inter
rupting and breaking up the we'd
ding.
All the same the year round: "No.n
said Mrs. McGill, I'VE don't celebrate
All Fools Day at our house. The
Squire never pays any attention to
legal hollow days; and as for me, l
feel Just as foolish one day as an
other"
Some New York ladies have
thought to outdo the world by wear
ing wax tomatoes and peas on their
bonnets. A brace of Washington
ladies' appeared on the avenue TODAY
with bundles of garlic on their poke
bonnets and a couple of bets on their
tracks. .
The Lewiston (Me. Journal tells
how Lewiston hackman has got the
Dest of some of the drummer, along
the road. A dark evening a week or
SO ago, with threatening rain clouds
and occasional sprinkles, had cleared
nt n Sfu /, IL