The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-05-02
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
The Maiden and the Fish.

The Maiden and the Fish.
There are fish in the sea quite as go,~. said
the maid,
".As any that ever were caught
And plentiful too and so greedy of bait
That they reck not with wha; il is fraughs.
In the shade 10y the side of the brook,
And smillngly unused as she drew forth II iir
AND craftily baited her hook,
And gazed at the fishes that thronged at hez
feet.
In the water there sporting in glee
As if pleased to be drawn by hand fair as hers
From their home in the far away sea-
Thus time glided on and the maid and the fish
Passed their DAYS in a pleasant routine
For the maid was amused by the fishes so fond,
And the fish deemed the maiden their queen.
Yet dallied the maiden with seeming delight
And laughed, as she dangled the bait
Just little too high for the fishes TO reach,
At their many vain efforts TO bite
But after awhile with this trifiing young maid
The fish grew impatient and said:
There may be other fsh-but-there's other
good bait
And away they all hurriedly sped.
Now pondered the maiden awhile with regret
Ger the change which she saw in her fate;
Then called to the vanishing fishes "Come
But the fish only answered Too late
Then Alas" sighed the maid. there are fish in
But in sorrow this lesson I'm taught
That, however SO good they may be, there are
times
When fish will refuse to be caught"
Washington Post.
Yellow.
4 writer in the COrnhill Magazine
tells characteristic story of the IA
Jn<a
beautiful face the readers of her auto
biography will remem ber as immortal
lied at the age of so by the elder Rich
mond.
She had been very i'll, but was recov-
ering, when she heard that MaZZinl, the
Italian patriot, was in London, and
against the counsel of her friends. who
feared the journey and the excitement
for her, she determined, notwithstand-
ing her age, to go up to London and be
present at a public breakfast to be
given in his honor.
But you have no bonnet: YOU can
not appear in that hood" they urged
II will have bonnet for the occa-
sion.' was her reply, and straightway
word was dispatched to a milliner in
London to have bonnet, suitable for
| an old lady of So" made and forwarded
to Euston Station to meet her on her
arrival by the night train. The bonnet
was made and dispatched, and the
brave old lady, whose heart never grew
Old, travelled up to town TO find her
| bonnet in waiting.
And" said Mrs. Fletcher, what do
you think, my dear, / found when /
opened the bonnet-box? \ bright yell
low satin bonnet, with yellow lancer S
| plume in it I, | was determined not TO
miss Mazzini, SO l put it on, never
looked in the glass. went to the break
fast and forgot all about my bonnet for
the time being; but after breakfast l
/ drove straight to the milliner's, and
said, dare say little angrily:
GLOW could you send me such a
thing as this? | asked for bonnet for
an old lady of S0n
"'Madam.' replied the milliner, we
| have no old ladies of 50 in London"
The moral of the story is plainly this,
| that it is not in the rush and crush OF
| town that such beautiful old age is to
| be found, but in the quiet of such a
home as Mrs. Fletcher had made for
| herself amid the English lakes.