The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-06

Three hundred thousand dollars
Is annually expended for Christmas
cards IN this country.
The L0ldon World tells of new
continuance to make ladies taller,
The ladies have cOntrivances enough
for making men short.
Fewer ladies kept open house in
Salt Lake City New Years than on
similar occasions for many years.
The custom is in disrepute.
Bonanza Floods daughter will in.
herit 100000. She is the sort of
flood that, if taken at the tide, nav
lead her husband on to fortune.
Women in Mexico are not per-
mitted TO attend funerals. The
only melancholy ceremonies they
are allowed to witness are we'd
dings.
There are no nice little stories
about the return of "The Prodigal
Daughter" The son can return
and have the finest veal served I'D
for him, but the daughter must stay
away.
A western woman prayed for
money and found it, as though this
was miracle. We know of several
eastern men who have preyed for
money and found it.
An exchange denies that woman
cannot sharpen lead pencil. "AlI
she wants is plenty of time and
plenty Of pencils" If she also has
a knife we presume she will be
pleased.
A bevy of young and lovely girls
made arrangements to take adj
vantage of their leap year pre-
rOSative and 90 calling on New
I ears, but refrained when told that
it wouldn't be proper.
Somebody said, "The whisper of
beautiful woman can be heard
further than the loudest call to
duty" What can be a louder call
of duty than to hearken to the whis-
per of beautiful woman?
"Dear me, Auntie,'' said a clever
girl spending a gay winter with
friends who rose rather early, sit
seems to me you tuck me in on one
side the bed ard then walk round
to the other end and tell me to get
up.
A woman with an oval face, reg
ular features aud a Grecian head
can wear her hair in almost any
fashion and Look well. When,
however, she wears the most of it
over the back of a chair she should
adorn herself with a night-cap.
The crush hat of the male is now
matched by the "pocket bonnet" of
the female, which can be folded up
and put away when necessary in
the pocket. But who ever heard of
a case where woman had any de-
sire to put a new bonnet out of
sight?
Are poets tickle and inconsistent?
Are they sordid. selfish, ungrateful,
and like the cold, heartless. dull and
prosaic world which surrounds
them? Why did Ella Wheeler write,
81 do not love him in the old. fond
way ?" or if she must write it, why
did she wait until the ice cream
season was over?
ooh, I don't care whether get
anything in my stocking or not"
said Adolphus, adding, with a look
of undying devotion, "but. Clara,
should like to have what is in
your stockings" ooh, yes" said
Clara, naively, "you mean corns.
What a foolish boy,w Thus was
loves young dream dispelled, and
hence it is that Clara is still
called "Miss."
An analysis of matrimonial adj
vertisements in Germanylshow that |
three times as many women as men
seek partners in that manner; that |
women are far less particular about |
age than men, but far more particu-
lar about family position, and that |
religious faith is of secondary i'm
portance with most advertisers of |
Doth sexes.
The New York World says that
Miss Kate Field, now in this city,
has refused to become the cor
of any of the big Amer
can dailies, though she has been
offered her own terms for letters.
But Miss Field is by no means idle.
She is taking copious notes which
ire to be used anon.
A shabbily-dressed woman called
ipon one of our citizens for aid,
claiming that she was in starving
condition. The citizen looked upon
Ter plethoric form, estimated the
of the superfuous fat,
md answered: You don't look like
. starving woman" 81 know it,"
he whiningly answered, "Pm
,loated with grief" - Hartford
Times.
a handsome street suit is made of
.reen velvet, with a Jersey jacket
which fits the figure to perfection.
t fastens down the back with tiny
,reen and gold and the close
leeves are also buttoned up the out
ide of the arm. The skirt is laid ia
tilt plaits and over it falls scarf Of
-elvet which is caught up over the
lips with buckles. to form the hip
rapery. A shoulder cape and cap
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