The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-17

| baNteli daughter of the Rev MT. BaN- ter, second minister of the church at Medfeld Mass. October brides please take notice.
 One COW, fSO.
 Curtain and valances, f1S, | Bedstead and eoverlets, f14.
 Bed, new coverlet poorest bed. Two new blankets, old bedstead and feathers new bed tick and under bed, fS6,15. Three brass kettles, f27, 1 l warming pan. f5
 | brass skillets, iron pot and tea ket- | tie, f6,S
 Flat irons, skillet and frying pan, f5. | Looking glass, great wheel and little | wheels, fS.5.
 New chest, 12 chairs, f12.15. TWO keelers, churn, wash dish f6.17
 Earthen, tin and wooden ware f5.1 12 pillow piers (cases), table cloths, towles, f12.
 new tow sheets, f2S15.
 Old cotton sheets-palr old tow sheets, pair new woollen sheets, one old one, is.
 New bed ticks, new bedstead, bed quilt, f24.
 Head curtains and valances, pair fine sheets. Chest drawers. one old one, Two old tables, f11O.
 Old pewter, f35.
 Three meal sacks, one milk pail, f1S.
 It is not chronicled that "the bridal gifts were numerous and costly" but that they were costly if not numerous is evident. Skillets and warming pans and the like must have been imported from the mother country. The COW, a good one, judging from the valuation placed upon it, may have been a home production, of the brides own "rais- ing,' as the "towes" were of her weav- ing. If any one would take the trou- ble to reduce the pounds and shillings to dollars they would find the "setting out" practical and domestic as it is, to be quite an expensive one That we are given no items concerning her dresses and mantles and bonnets is very disappointing What an unfor- tunate, inexplicable oversight on the part of the scribe!
 ONE OF wOMAN's TRIALS.
 why is it.' inquires a perplexed young woman of the New York Sun. that the street car conductors always give their pennies to women?" Tn one days journeyings she was given pennies by six different conductors, one of them having the effrontery to burden her with fifteen of the objectionable little coins. As far as she could see, of all the men who received change not one of them was offered it in pennies.
 Now, why do they do it?' she begs to know. Women have no pockets in their dresses now, and goodness knows their pocketbooks are heavy and awk- ward enough, stuffed with their ordi- nary change, cards, samples and what not; and the men, with all their pock- cts, escape. It is an outra ge"
 The reason. as far as one attentive observer can find out, is that there is an unwritten law among men against the acceptance of pennies in change. They load the conductor with them un- til his sagging pockets seriously embar- rass his movements--rather dangerous ly when he is laboriously twisting his way along the side of an open car wherefrom protrude angular portions of the anatomy of overcrowded passen- gers. He must unload these cumbering coins, and as men will not accept them he has learned to offer them to women in such nonchalant, matter-of-fact way that they receive them meekly and without protest, as they accept so many of life's little annoyances.
 Offer a man five pennies in change and he disdainfully or angrily refuses them; drop them into a woman's hand, and, with little sigh elicited by the feeling that she is always being impos- ed upon, she crowds them into her pock- etbook and disposes of them in the next store she enters. If she Is very cour- , ageous, independent sort of person she l reserves them until she finds herself l again upon a car, when she hands them over al the request, fare, please" with . an air that says, ''this is nothing to tn: 3 daring deeds I might do if I had an op- 9 portunity."
 s But her greater opportunity lies ir r lrefusing them when they are tenderet Q her. Then is the moment to show gen e uine intrepdity. Never, until with au y thoritative mien, she demands quarter: n and dimes instead of pennies, can sht 3 hope to be acknowledged as the equa r of imperious, self-assertive man. :, Suppose man offered dollar 1T d payment of his fare--would 1t not be al
 most as much as a conductors life wa: e worth to give him smaller coins thar - half dollar, quarter and two dimes r But the average woman accepts 2 k handful of nickes and pennies with a l. least an appearance of resignation - She should learn not to be or to appear Q resigned; she should demur, object, re t fuse-in short, kick" Much good hal !, been affected, as everyone knows, b. d vigorous but judicious "kicking." Le d her demand the larger coins and it i' : quite reasonable to expect that she vii get them.
 But if rebellion fails to better mat
 ters, women are not recommended tt try the peculiar method of a New Ha
 ven man who was so indignant at beint
 made to accept nine dimes and nicke
 in change for a dollar, that he boy
 cotted that particular car and walked = to his business every morning for ; V week. At the end of that time it dawn y ed upon him that this species of retri :, butiVe justice was working wrong ent
 first, The conductor did not seem t : know that he was being punished, ant