The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1893-02-09

io"I ''Oi"IJ "'bSh, uohe Vi lHem
distinguished for their good looks,
ON subject of vital Importance.
He says that each woman in her
own ptc1liar line has national
reputation and could afford to ans
swer truly the question put to her.
The question was this:
(Which would you rather be,
smart or beautiful ~
Said No. |: Observation-Disclosures
10y the mere lifting of the eyes a
beautiful woman can order all The
world TO her feet"
Said No. 2: observation-disclosures
beauty's mantle is larger than char
ity's. 1t covers social gaucheries,
ign orance and any amount of stu
pidity.'
Said No. 8: Observation-Disclosures
fame, fortune, adulatlon, lovely
gifts, social prominence, all come
to the woman who is fair Of face"
Said No. 4. Beautiful. Beauty
is gold to woman. A smart
woman's fame may not come to her
until she is dead, but beauty gets it's
tribute now; even laureled heads
turn away from the smart woman to
do reverence to the one who is
beautiful"
No one is a more enthusiastic
admirer of the beautiful than Old
Youth, but the above answers are
evidences of the lack uf heart and
soul; and could the four literary
women be transformed into beings
as beautiful as Mother Eve, or the
Venus de- Medici, o. US heart
could not be affected by their per-
sonal charms. "Beauty is as beauty
does;" tastes differ, and tie world
has never yet universally bent the
knee of homage before the beauty
Of any one woman. A mud fence,
or a doughface baby finds favor in
some eyes.
Jack Spratt could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean;
So you see, between them both,
They licked the platter clean"
For the most popular brands of
first.class. crop-producing FER-
TILIZERS, call on J. M. GANN.
Lovers of the flowing bowl. who
reside in "dry" counties, need not
be deprived of their spurious sup~
ply SO long as sawdust or a piece
of wood is obtainable. An ex~
change says;
ave ara sorry to learn that q
German chemist has succeeded in
making first rate brandy out of
sawdust. We want the temper
ance movement to succeed, but
what chance will it have when a
man can take up saw and 60 out
and get drunk with a fence rail I?
What is the use Of moral suasiOn,
if a man is able to make brandy
ont of an old hen coop, or if he can
get delerium tremens by drinking
the legs ofhis kitchen chairs. You
may shut an inerbriate out of gin
shop, and keep him away from tav~
erns, but if he can become uprori-
Gus on boiled sawdust and desic.
Gated window-sills, any effort must
necessarily be failure
A carload of FLOUR, of the best
brands, just received at j. M. GAINS,
On last Sunday evening the
Methodist Sunday school was or
gained into a missionary society,
according to the rules of the church.
The following officers were elected:
d. f. Archer, president; Miss Biz
die Marion, vice president; Prof.
G. A. Spragins, secretary; Miss
Matte Scott, treasurer. The 4th
Sunday liz each mouth as selected
as mission day. A full corps of
teachers, SO pupils and quite a
number of visitors were present.
Tha Meridian News very truth
fully says: "The way of the journ-
aist is hard one. But it has COM
pensaiions when those whom he
tries faithfully to serve manifest
apprec citation of his endeavors.
This is sometimes done. and when
it comes to him graciouslv, the
stones lose some of their sharp
ness, the clouds are lifted from the
horizon and new light seems to
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