Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-19
TECHNICAL TERMS.
Feminine Fads For New Words Make the
Colonel Miserable.

Feminine Fads For New Words Mako the
Colonel Miserable.
do you ever read the society coll
umns in our newspapers" inquired the
Colonel, as a stylishly-dressed lady
swept out of the car. II hear my wife
reading them" replied the Major, who
was sitting opposite.
well, that's what / mean" said the
Colonel Naturally. grown man with
signs of beard on his face wouldn't be ex-
pected to devour that kind of thing. /
hear my wife and girls reading it occa-
sionally, and 1 have listened patiently
and learned some interesting facts. A
man can always learn something if he'll
sit right still and listen. Now, I'll bet
boss that none of you fellows know
what that lady had on"
''She had on bonnet for one thing, I"
said the last passenger.
Correct" said the Colonel. what
else?"
Well" said the Major, rehectiyely,
''she had on address,
20, no." exclaimed the Colonel,
there's where you are wrong. That's
what you miss by not educating your
self in the society business. The lady
didn't have on dress"
What do you take me for?" astAd
the Major "Ill take ny oath the lady
had on dress, and very pretty one,
too"
''You are mistaken, said the Colonel,
emphatically.
well, what did she have on?" the
sad passenger inquired, in his mild way.
"a gown" remarked the Colonel.
'It's funny, but there are no dresses
any more. Frocks went out of fashion
when / was boy, and now If woman
hasn't got on gown it is because she is
wearing morning or an evening toilet.
But generally it is gown-especially
in Atlanta When hear my wife or
the girls reading the papers it looks
like to me that the whole face of the
earth is covered with gowns-morning
gowns, evening gowns and tea gowns.
Thirty years ago calico frock used to
be good enough for my wife, but now
she has to have gowns just like the
girls. l don't blame her much. She
amt quite as risky as the girls, but
she's lots better looking"
"Well,'' said the Major, 81 expect it's
the same way at my house, but my wife
is so old-fashioned in her ways, especial
ly when it comes to making egg bread
and waffles, that she don't poster with
those new-fangled things. A frock is
still a frock to her, and she don't
want any flounces and furbelows on it
either"
"My opinion is" said the sad pas
senger, 'that if the women call dress
gown they know what they are about
When my wife says gown, gown 1t is. A
man that isn't cut biased can afford to
let the women have all the satisfaction
they can get out Of calling a dress a
gown Atlanta Constitution.
The census man who was assigned
the enumeration of the Sea Island coast
of South Carolina, made a remarkabl BILE
discovery. HAWAII Island, some miles
down the coast, is owned by two Of the
families of ante-bellum Sea Island
Darons. The enumerator, to his sur
prise, found there black colony OF
about one hundred and fifty souls, and
struck a region, the only one in the
world, in which all the inhabitants were
English speaking, reading and writing
negroes. Every negro he met could
| read and write Every child of suitab BILE
ago could also read and write, and the
women were just as intelligent as the
men. All were prospecting under the
wise rule of mulatto cacique named
Quash Stevens, whose wife was respon-
'tble for the education of the people.