Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-08-05
BUSY BETTY's" COLUMN.

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valuable exchange list shall endeavor
to 'scall again.
Very Truly,
If the sugar trust is a s'sweet young
thing" is not the coal trust ssdusky
beauty" !
When the republicans try to explain
why the farmers wife gets less sugar
for a dollar since the passage of the
new tariff law they are likely to run up
against ''sticky'' subject.
The Norton Champion says: "And
now it is claimed that there are no fe-
male angels. Can it be that the new
woman has suspected this, and hopes
to run "a bluff on ST, Peter by adopting
bloomers?''
The following poetic effusion is float
ing around without anyone to father it:
she criticised her pudding, and he
didn't like her cake; he wished she'd
make TIE biscuits his mother used to
make; she didn't wash the dishes, and
didn't make a stew, and she didn't
mend his stockings like his mother used
to do. O, well, she wasn't perfect,
but she tried to do her best, until at
length she thought the time had come
to take rest; so, when one day he
growled and whined the whole livelong
day through, she turned him up and
boxed his pants-s'as his mother used
to do
The many teachers who have made
failure of answering the knotty ques-
tons propounded by State Superintend
ent Stryker, might apply to the nearest
probate judge and receive ''certih-
cate" giving them lawful right to form
a trust to down Supt. Stryker. Since
the new woman does not object to tell
ing her age there is no danger of miss
ing the questions, the knotty problem
can be solved by the judge for small
fee, and the certificate" hold good as
long as both parties to the trust could
agree. If either should become dis
gusted with the combine, little ''free
silver" judiciously applied, will bust
the combine. Then they could so back
to teaching, after Stryker and his I'm.
answerable questions are in oblivion.
If any of his brother editors thought
Del Valentine, of the Clay Center Dis
patch, did not like the society of the
fair sex perusal of his article on
"Angels" will set them right. Here it
is: San eastern preacher has discov-
cred that there are no women angels
and he preached that solemnly from
his pulpit recently. Possibly there are
none in heaven, we don't know, but
there are lots of them on earth. Pos.
sibly the Bible nowhere says that won.
en- shall go to heaven; and possibly it
nowhere asserts that women may, OF
|; shall, or can become angels and fit
about in bare feet that their night gown:
do not hide. That is the way the paint
ers picture them, and in a bevy as is
shown in the Sunday school books, low
. broad foreheads, rounded arms, curling
locks, graceful forms and never once the
knotted bicep, a beard, mustache, a
crooked knee. or an Adams apple be
longing to a man. In all the descrip
tons of heavenly music in sacred d
profane history there is no suggestion
accepted the universal decree that al
angels are women or very young boys
There must be grain of truth in uni
versally accepted doctrines, and ye
here comes this heavenly civil engIneel
! who presumably speaks from authority
, and says there are no women angels
That means all angels are men, anl
strongly hints that all men are angels
which is pretty nearly correct, but al
the same time if no women-f folks are VI
there whole lot of pretty good men
according to the earthly estimate, viii
be hustling hellward of their own free
will and accord. Women should b,
angels, or one grade better; and the
will be-
: After Stolen Cattle.