The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-14
Gossip for the Girls

Poker is all the rage among TIE
ladies in New York boarding houses.
Some unknown lady has given $lo0,.
600 to Tulane University, Louisiana.
Boston shop girls are said TO speak
better English than Philadelphia bellies.
A Burlington girl says there is nc
truth in the saying Like father ike
son." She says she likes the son first
rate, but she can't bear the father.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has written q
poem for Mrs. Potter which has for its
motive the tendency of society TO for
give q man for his shortcomings while
il condemns q woman.
"Why yes said Blodson. speaking
of logical conclusion to Mrs. PopIn-
jay, and rather allowing his earnest
ness to get the better Of him; Its per-
fectly plain to meas plain as you are. "
Burlington Free Press.
Maria, wish you would keep still. >.
said Brown. trying to write. Your
tongue is like Tennyson's Brook-it
gees on forever" "Humph, i" answered
Mrs. B.. Indignantly. II suppose you
think that's q joke" We'll, meant il
for sort of gag,
A company of New York girls formed
a walking club early this spring and
have taken long tramp once a week,
doing the Jersey hills and a good part
of the Catskills pretty thoroughly. Ii
takes al Able-b bodied dude 10 keep COM
pany with them.
Alady very much given to gadding
was suddenly taken i'll at home one
day and sent her husband in great haste
for the doctor. The obedient man ran
part of the way, then returned to put
the important query: my dear. where
shall find YOU when / get back"
A young man found a handbag at
Tuscola, Ills. 1t contained SIS and be
longed to a widow in Atwood, and
when the young man returned il she
rewarded him by marrying him the
next day. We hate 10 print this item.
1t is such a discourager to honesty in
young men-Buffalo Express.
At the gentle meeting of the State
Woman Suffrage Association Mrs. Ma
tilda Joslyn Gage delivered herself Of
the opinion that blood would have 70
flow in torrents before women could Sc
cure their rights, but when she pricked
her finger with a bonnet pin two-thlrds
of her audience turned and screamed.
Mr.. 0verdraw (reading shopping lisi)
Bonnet, shoes, shoe-buttons, gloves,
silk for dress. trimmings, carriage-hat,
etc. Don't you think you can cut il q
little, my dear?" Mrs. OvsTaraw-
Certainly. love. / know hoIhard 1t
Is for you to get money now. 1 can get
along without the shoe-blttons just as
well as not"
There's something inexplicable about
the mental make up of 4 woman" re-
piled Fogg TO a female acquaintance.
There's that Mrs. Smith for example.
She's utterly unable TO handle a horse
and yet she drives her husband around
as though he were a baby" All, but
you forget" replied the lady, 1.-The
horse is very intelligent animal"
A hard-headed business man OF De-
troit was among the guests at q recent
fashionable gathering, where also was N
very loud and very obstrusiye new III b
woman. "Humph," growled Hard Head
IS the very loud and go forth. swept
past him in the grand procession. al 90
much money, aud hasn't had IL loi <
enough. detroit Free Press.
Since it became fashionable for young
ladies TO wear collar and necktie their
superiority 10 men has been fully de-
monstrated. You never see lady with
her necktie over her ears. A brief trial
OF six months has taught women more
in the necktie-wearing art than men
have iearnedin 5000 years.A human be-
ing that can make necktie stay in pls, e
should have the right 10 cast two bal
lots ST every election.