Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-28
"BUsY BETTY's' COLUMN.

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The old fashioned woman served pie
every meal. The new woman says pie
is not good for your digestive apparatus.
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woman flies from the ills that are
to those she knows not of, when she
gets divorce from one man in order
to marry another.
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An exchange thinks that a boarding
house keeper has as much trouble
Keeping peace among her boarders as
the preacher has with his choir.
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A fashion journal says "Bows on
chairs have had, their day" An ex-
change adds ''Perhaps so; but beaux
on chairs still have their nights"
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1t is poor house keeper who long
permits bed-bugs to occupy rooms
Jointly with her. Amy sIoucb can have
an abundant supply of the aforesaid
pests.
Girls are you up with the latest fad?
The latest is to wear a gold powder
box on chatelaine. Very Frenchy is
it not? Our jeweler will need to lay in
a supply.
Bertha V. Thompson, bright young
woman graduate of a Chicago medical
college. is city physician of Oshkosh,
Wisconsin. She is the only woman
physician in Oshkosh.
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The cute young man still goes to
church occasionally, as the contribu-
ton at one of our churches showed last
Sunday. Why do boys. who think
they are men, stoop to putting any
thing but money in the basket?
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Where is the boy or girl who would
like to wave the old fashioned peacock.
feather fly brush while the company ate
up all the good things? The use of
screens seems to have caused the pea
cock to abandon the fly brush business.
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The Eureka Messenger says: The
Hiawatha preacher who announced
that ''the person who lost his purse this
morning can go to Helen Hunt for it,
was somewhat surprised when the con-
gregation demanded his resignation for
using profane language in the pulpit.
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The milliners of Hiawatha will not
have a rich harvest this fall If the
women Of that place persist in going to
church and places of amusement with
out hats, or removing them while at
public gatherings. What woman would
want to buy two or three new hats if
she has to hold them in her lap when
In a crowd2
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Chicago has a woman street cleaner.
Mrs. A. E. Paul has charge of a down
town district. Her methods are very
thorough. She personally superintends
the work and the men attend strictly to
their business, as they do not know at
what moment she will drive upon them.
She has contract with the city and
soon expects to have her cleaning force
uniformed.
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The Cleveland Leader tells of a
woman who took the departure of her
husband to the Alaska gold fields very
philosophically. When asked if she
did not fear for him to run the risk,
replied "Oh, his life is insured for
SI5,oooi We are almost sure to strike
it one way or another" Every woman
should see to it that her husband has
made as good a provision for her be-
fore she permits him to start for
Klondyke.
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The Atlanta Constitution says an old
and afflicted Georgia darkey recently
wrote the following unique letter to
President Mckinley: "Mr. Mckinley:
l voted fer you in de rain, from suuup
to sundown. / kotched de rheumatism
in my left leg. en- hits done run to my
head en- give me rattlin' of de brain.
l never did git an Office, en- been laid
up so long dat my wife done lef' me en-
gone off wild turpentine niger. Could