The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-15
OUR GIRLS.
Dancing and Dances Good Word for
swimming Fair Mountain LIon.SIR, or,
Twas once American maidenS shTeWd
Slug loudly VI Yankee Doodle,
Hut now they lay for the British dude
Especially for his Doodle.

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Twas once American maidenS Shrewd
ERug loudly " Yankee Doodle,
Hut now they lay for the British dude
-Bosloa Courier.
Agood many society girlsQf the period
left school prematurely,
The ChorolisthR is the last London
dance; FROM chores, dance, aud OlistIan.
ein, 10 glide,
Never talk base ball to a pretty girl,
Ten to one she will make you ashamed
OF your Ignorance.
Physicians OF eminenCe now advocate
swimming as necessity to our physical
development,
Carlotta Banks, Of Sacramento, saved
her three Young brothers from death
while the pateTnal mansion was on fire.
It is feared she will lose her eyesight.
Martha Tullldge, OF Dakota, is 10 years
old. This year she plowed, sowed and
reaped forty acres OF land and sold 600
bushels OF wheat. All this was done
without male assistance.
Title McCready, OF Mississippi, deter
mined niue years ago never to marry Il
man who neither smokes, drinks, swear,
uhews or uses slang. She Is not married
yet and thinks OF making u compromise
II she gets chance.
Girls more backward than boys In
their first swimming lessons2 On the
contrary, they learn more speedily be-
fore the ago Of ten, but thereafter the
boys are more YGnturesome-th sex
running to rashness US they add to their
years.
Matilda Moore, Of Greenfield Springs,
COL. has killed three mountain lions,
can ride as we'll as any cowboy and Is
an accomplished pianist Her father
took her west four years ago from Bos.
ton 10 save her life. She is now healthy
and happy.
Marie Bullock, Of London, was engaged
to II young man. He came to see her
one night under the influence OF liquor.
A row followed. He promised to reform
after marriage, She insisted that he re
form before, lie objected. She dis.
missed him and Is now the wife OF u
Miss Mae Macy is entitled to the dis.
tinCtiOn Of best girl swimmer OF Chicago.
She is tall aud supple, and has u faculty
OF cutting through the water ut marvel.
Gus speed, easily making thirty feet in
three forward glides. She floats like
feather, and enjoys ramble sixty feet
below the surface.
Tho ambition Of American girls to
marry titled foreigners Is one Of our
national reproaChps as well as u slur
upon modern civilization. There eau be
no decent excuse urged in behalf OF
those who thus degrade matrimouy and
sacrifice the best instincts OF their sex to
an inordinate and disgusting vanity.
Ethel Sanderson, Of Boston, ia the
daughter OF u wealthy commission man.
She is highly educated and has travelled
in Europe, and IL an accomplished lin.
guist and musician. She can cook an
eight.Course dinner without aid, and
eau keep house better than her maiden
aunt, who has done nothing else for
forty years.
A new fancy Of luxurious New York
girls Is 10 wear real Japanese gowns
which the Oriental Importers bring over
especially for thenl-in their bedrooms
az substitute for the ordinary wrapper,
These gowns are exouisitely pretty aud
comfortable, and Miss Bigclow, who was
married lust week, had one Of the palest
pink, embroidered in silver, III her
trousseau. They are made OF Grape OF
tho heavy Japanese sort, which has
much more weight aud substance than
the China Grape, and are covered with
delicate needlework in silk and metal.
"There is q new dance called The
Dream which is said to DO veritable
dream. The wife OF the composer
dreamed the dance, and at once awak.
enCd her husband, who arose and com.
posed the dance TO her steps. 1t Is in
the sChottisChe time, and will be very
popular We will also have the dances
Of Inst scason-the Yorke, tho glide
waltz, the graceful La Belle Canadienne,
tho Hungaris, u variation OF the ma.
zourka and the mazourka and the lane.
ers. There will DO Changes in the time
and method, but the indications are that
the waltz movement will be a !avolite
1t Is safe to sayIthat the livCllest dane.
ing will be glide.
A daughter Of the household was told
to get some sweet potatoes and put them
on to boil. She did ms directed, but
when the dinner hour arrived the pota.
toes were not done. They were boiled
still longer, and then were not done.
They we're then baked, with no better
success. Finally the mother went to
see how many such tubop she had.
Going to the box where they were kept,
the mystery was solved when she found
that her daughter had taken dahlia
bulbs, which lay near tho box, instead
Of tho sweet potatoes. Probably the
dahlla tubers will not sprout any better
In tho spring for having been boiled.