The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-11-09
QUIZ PROSPERITY LETTER.

humanity.
The sowing of small, grain has been
deIsyed il consequence ofthe drought.
| Prosperity's cotton market is again
on the boom, Yesterday it brought
$3.50. The market has doomed and
doomed until it has doomed nearly all
of the cotton of the country. A very
small portion remains unpicked in the
field and only portion OF that picked
remains unsold.
Rev. T. O. Keister will preach in Mt.
Tabor church on next Sunday morn
ing.
The election is progressing very qui-
etly today, and from present indica-
tion. there will be light vote polled.
The negroes are taking little interest
in the election, many Of them having
10 registration certificates. The Third
partyites seem to be in hopeless mi
noEity.
Ihave been musing and philosophiz-
ing over some of the wonderful changes
that have been wrought during the last
half century. A half century is but
short time for an old man to look back
over, but it is an awful long time for a
boy just entering his teens to look for
ward to, and I reckon it's longer still
for a girl, especially if she thinks her
good looks will not carry her to the
hymeueal altar before she reaches her
half century. When I was young
man casting around there were q num-
Der of classes or grades of girls, as re-
CARDS their complexion, color of eyes
and hair. There was the dark skinned,
dark eyed, black haired girls. Then
there was another grade or class de-
nominated fair skin, blue eyed and
light haired. Still another prominent
girl was the freckled faced grey eyed,
red haired girl. Then there were yari-
GUS other hues of eyes and hair. The
auburn, light chestnut, dark chestnut,
and sandy eyes, and light blue, dark
blue, grey and yellow eyes. When
was courting my wife long ago, I was
pleased in describing her as my dark
skinned, black eyed, black haired
sweetheart, but now what a change
has been wrought in the use of our
language. Now when I am in the
company of ladies, it would awfully
shock their sense of stiquette, to hear
me describing my wife as dark
skinned, black eyed, black haired lady.
It would be just awful, coarse and
unrefned. Instead of using those good
old endearing adjectives as used to do.
I must forget that pleasure and con-
| dense, those fine unadulterated adjec-
tives all into one noun, and instead of
saying my wife, has dark skin, black
eyes and black hair, I must just simply
say, she is a--5runette. Brunette, bru-
nette, yes brunette, that is the word,-
my wife is a brunette. She is not the
same woman that I married long ago.
Then she was my own dark skinned,
black eyed, black haired wife; but now
she is my brunette wife! That sounds
funny-brunette wife? We have one
daughter at our house, and I used to
call her my fair skinned, blue eyed,
light haired girl, but she two has
undergone the inevitable, and I no
longer have my fair skinned, blue
eyed, light haired daughter, but. I
have most lovely blonde. These latter
day women land girls have divided
themselves, so that only two descrip-
tive terms apply to all Of them. They
are either brunette or they are blondes.
| No middle class, or onesided issues. I
don't know where these Roman nosed,
red haired. grey eyed, freckled faced
girls belong. I don't know whether
they are a species of the brunette or
the blonde, but I reckon they 60 on the
side of the blondes. A blonde wouldn't
be brunette for the world, and bru-
| nette wouldn't be blonde. 1t would
Just be horrid. ! reckon though,
freckle spotted, red haired girl belongs
to the gennes blonde.
Sometimes I get these brunettes and
blondes awfully mixed. I sometimes
don't always know whether I have
got a brunette wife and a blonde
daughter, or whether I have blonde
wife and a brunette daughter, and I
have either to consult Mr.. Webster or
call my wife and ask her if she is
brunette or a blonde. She'll quickly
answer, "Why 'Yu-Be, I'm brunette.
Will you never learn anythingW I
thank her for the information and then
muse and philosophize over brunette
and blonde. I experience the greatest
trouble in going into drygoods store
where there are lady clerks to make a
purchase. II I want some lace, or rib
bon, or \ dress, or something Of that
character, the lady clerk is sure to ask
me if my wife isa brunette or blonde.
Then sometimes I forget which is the
other, and as neither Mr.. Webster or
my wife is near, I must rely on my
own decision which is sometimes
awfully at fault. Now there is a vast
difference between my brunette wife
and my blonde daughter. My bru-
nette wife tips the scales at 270, and
she is worth her weight in diamonds,
while my blonde daughter barely raises
the beam at 11S. So if make a mis-
take and want dress for my blonde
daughter, and tell the lady clerk
that she is a brunette instead of
getting dress for my blonde
daughter, I find on arrival at home,
| thotT oot O 6reeS for nv brunette wife