The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-09-23
SOCIAL GOSSIP,

The scientific name for a dentist is O.
Don't-ologist.
The girl who learns to be stylish is now
anxiously inquiring how to cultivate
freckles.
At a soiree or calling French lady never
carries her handkerchief in her hand; it oc-
cupies its right place in the pocket.
The superintendent of the Denver hospital
reports brisk demand for girl babies for
adoption, but says nobody wants boys
Nine-tenths of the lawyers. three-fourths
of the physicians, five-sixths of the poets and
two-thirds of the literary men use tobacco
in some form.
Neither bustles or corsets are worn in
Japan, and when japanese maiden sits
down in skating rink She gets her moneys
worth every time.
Almost any man knows more than his
father until he is forty years old Then he
drops into the ranks of the ignorant and be-
gins to take lessons.-Sam.
Sincerity is like travelling i'm plain. beaten
road, which commonly brings a man sooner
to his journeys end than bywavs, i'm which
men often lose themselves.
The June-bug hath gaudy wing
The lghtning-bu hath flame
The bedbug has no friends at all
But he gets there, all the same.
II often happens that young man is found
dead on his wifeS grave, but who ever heard
of wife dead on her husbands grave? 1t
takes widow to bear up under Christening
Providence
Mother AYERS in the Boston Globe. in
reply to another correspondent, that "a six
teen-year-old girl can soften and whiten her
HANDS by soaking them in dish-water three
times a day"
In Newport slang mislit wife is one who
has found herself so mismeted that she has
had to part from her husband. They no
longer speak of grass widows or divorced
persons, but Away. of misfits.
In gentlemens fashions the three and
fourbuttoned getaway coat will prevail;
also the single sack and Prince Albert frock
Trousers are moderately tight, and hats are
pretty much the same as usual.
Young ladies who have been camping
OUT are distinguished from those who
haven't by their bronZed compilations There
is a preparation, too, that gives TO the face
the requisite bronze and sunburn.
Nothing new or striking is shown in the
autumn wedding cards. The size, folding
and wording are about the same. and evil
IDENTIFY engravers and stationers have not
thought il necessary TO make a change.
War has again been declared by physi-
clans. possibly seeking notoriety, on the
high French heels affected by fashionable
maids and matrons alike, under the impress
sion that they make the feet look small.
Newly-imported French artificial flowers
are exceedingly beautiful, and show great
progress in the art. They are appropriately
perfumed, and il takes clever person to
detect them at first from natural flowers.
Never allow yourself to become detected.
Look up; keep looking up; and perhaps
your eyes will chance TO rest upon that book
you borrowed more than year ago, and
gladden. the heart Of the owner by return
ing it.
How is business, doctor?'-"Capital."
was the reply thought there wasn't much
sickness abOutr'-"There isn't; but we
physicians 90 not depend upon sickness for
an income. oh, my, no: most of our money
is maze from people who have nothing the
matter with them"
All the way from California comes n story
| that General Grant was asked at a dinner in
| Paris what he thought of France and said l.:
| 1T is country where the men talk too
much and where the women are too much
| talked about" As there were several wo-
| men present il can be imagined that they
| did good deal of talking after that. The
| story j. probably an invention.