The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-18
Personal and General.

ueXG week.
Miss Wilson goes to Bozeman this week
to visit friends.
The engagement of Mrs. c. N. Pitts and
Mr.. ID. +. jackson is announced.
Miss Day, sister of Mrs. j. B. Jerome, is
visiting in Helena with her sister.
Mrs. N. j. Mcconnell returned Friday
fIom two weeks visit in Missoula.
Mrs. Hogan. of Bozeman, who has been
visiting Miss Hill, has returned home.
Miss Edna Hedges has left Helena for
visit to the east and a trip to Europe.
The young ladies of the Presbyterian
church have formed a new sewing circle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Briscoe and little daughter
have returned from their visit to st. Paul.
Mr.. Crounse and daughter have gone to
Chicago. Miss Crounse will make a pro-
tracted stay.
DR.. and Mrs. Rawson expect to start next
cities of the coast.
Mrs. G. N. Shaw, has left for visit to
Chicago, and points in Iowa. She will
be gone three months.
Mrs. Mccullough, of Fort Assiniboine,
who has been visiting in Helena, is now
with friends at Great Falls.
Immediately upon the receipt by. the
Cotillion club Friday night of the death of
Mr.. E. F. Crosby the party broke up.
mi. Auu NTH IL W. VOOC0 anu 1HINlly
left yesterday for their ranch, where they
will rest and rusticate till December
Miss Kockman, the vocalist, is soon ex-
pected in Helena. She will spend the sum-
mer here with her father, DR.. Rockman.
The ladies of Helena interested in tenn.
perance work are about to form q Loyal
Legion, which will engage the children in
active work for the cause.
3 Miss Riefenrath, for several years one of
vnOCf 10N< onhn vNyen $<
Winona, Mimi, to attend the Normal
school for the coming year.
Mrs. Blake, wife of Judge Blake, and
daughters leave about the first of next
month for their ranch near Virginia City,
to remain during part of the summer.
Mrs. Crounse, nee Paynter. and husband
nave returned from their wedding trip.
on Wednesdays during June, at her fathers
residence.
The homes Of Mr.. s. d. Bridge, W. I.
Hinkley and w. c. Humbert, of the "West
Side colony" are already under way. Plans
are nearly completed for the houses of
Messrs. Sharp, Atkinson, Burke and G. b.
Childs. They will aggregate in cost $50, OOO
Captain Matthews, special agent of the
general land Office, returned yesterday from
business trip in northern Montana. As
Captain Matthews is a society favorite in
Helena-as well as in the northern part of
the state, his return will be welcomed in
social circles.
On Friday evening next, St. Peters Sun
gay school VIII lt give an entertainment for
for the evening includes a magic lantern
show, music and refreshments. The chill
dren of the school are making most efficient
ticket agents; it will not be a mistake to
make one of them happy by buying
ticket.
The ladies of the ". G; T. U. held re-
ception yesterday at the home of Mrs. Ro-
sencrans, that the friends of the cause
might have an opportunity to meet socially
Col. Woodford, who has the past week
been delivering some logical and forceful
lectures in regard to temperance. Refresh
pleasantly. Col. Woodford will deliver his
final and most telling lecture this evening.
Flashes of French wit.
One of Helena's most charming society
ladies was discovered reading book en-
titled "A Thousand Flashes of French Wit,
Wisdom and Wickedness.' Being kindly
wise and piquant sayings found on its
pages:
The world is satisfied with words: few
care to dive beneath the surface.-Pascal.
Friendship is the highest degree of perfec-
ton in Observation-Disclosures.
The public! the public! How many fools
does it take to make up a public?-Cham-
fort.
The heart has reasons that reason does
not Observation-Disclosures.
Some never think of what they say;
others never say what they think.-De
Fir0d.
Love is like the moon: when it does not
increase. it decreases.-Segur.
Society depends upon women. The ma
tions who contine them are unsociable.-
Voltalre.
Without women the two e1tremities of
life would be without succor. and the mid
die without pleasure.-A. deMusset.
It is chance that makes brothers, but
hearts that make friends.-La Bruyere.
Society is the book of woman.-J. j. Ros-
seau.
As soon as women are ours, We are no
longer Observation-Disclosures.
Vanity ruins more women than love-
Mime. du Deffaud.
He who loves little, dares little.-Pro-
verb.
All passions are good when one masters
them; all are bad when one is slave to
them.-J. j. Rousseau.
One cannot imagine how much cleverness
is necessary not to be ridiculous.-Cham-
fort.
10 blame young man Tor beng In love
is like chidinR one for Being ill.-Duolos.
There are men who pride themselves on
their insensibility to love; it is like boast
ing Of having been always stupid.-S. de
Castres.
Prejudice is the reason of fools.-Vol-
taire.
| It is easier to take care of a peck of Aeas
| than one woman.-Proverb,
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.