The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-01-18
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES,
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There was 4 cat,
There was a woman and man, and, maybe,
There likewise was a little baby.
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There was Il fiat. -nf
There was mousse n.y.
There was Il cat,
| The little mouse Nthbled the baby's hcAd, $3.50
The old cat came and killed him dead. -
There was a house, g..
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There was no mouse, & ..
! 80, 81 l. There6w was a cat ~ ~ J<ssJ@
The cat. the baby's milk, It. slipped, zs a.;
The cook cried ''scat, "and away it slipped.
h = '.>> There was II house. -
81 There WQA n flat, go a r.;<
e There was no reuse,
E 80. There was nO cat, 1s:k!.sy =
But just the woman and man, and. maybe,
They had enough to feed the baby. >f*s. -
Playmate, in New York Mall and Express.
Thumbs Tell Tales of Disposition.
If you will allow me the Hibernicism, y
said Young lady of observations, Il
would like YOU to note for me that the
true index finger is the thumb. do not
mean that from the length of it's
phalanges you Gun find out whether
there is blonde. divinity or. Il brunette
fate awaiting you Or that from it's spatu-
lated or oval nailI car tell whether YOU
Of digital conjuring 1 leave to the, palm
mysticists. But what l do mean is that
the thumb is remarkable indicator of it's
owners bodily and mental condition.
THE newborn babe holds it's thumbs
in the palms Of its hands, "clinched in its
little fists, and it is only when the mind
and body both expand that it takes it's
pendent organs. What deep. connection
there may be between this fact and our
simian ancestry l. cannot. say tLet
mothers watch their children's thumbs,
and if they stick out boldly it is an UNI
failing indication of good health and az
grcssive disposition, while if they have a
tendency to seek the shelter of the fingers
it means feeble health and subservient
will. -:
Just notice the thumbs of your
friends, now, and you will see the same
relations between their posture and the
mans constitution of mind and body.
The conditions are simplicity itself. y The
weak mans thumb is weak and pendant;
the strong mans thumb is strong and
that you can tell from glance: at
mans thumbs whether he is an aimless
thinker or a man who carries his ideas
or somebody's else's, into action. =.
1t may be treachery to my sex, but I
don't mind telling you that it will be a,
good thing for You fellows to mark well
the thumbs Of the ladies Of your choice.
If the girls thumb, be it ever so prettily
rosy, has Il tendency to stand ut right an
giles to the hand-well, the gray mare
will need Il bit, that's all: while if it lies
flat or droops il little you can count on
marital submission to the master mind,
and that's the sort of domestic paradise
all You sons of Adam are looking for,
isn't it?
with the waning of the powers of
frame and brain pot comes the depres-
sion-l had almost sa id recession-of the
thumb. and whether in senility or idiocy
the thumb is always turned in. And then,
when you turn your face to the wall and
know no more summers heat nor win
ter $ cold, those that stand about you
and say, Well, poor old chap he's gone
at last will find that you have tucked
your, thumbs away in the shelter of your
hands, just as you had them when you
were a little baby.''-New York Sun.