Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-17

hands and a No. foot could win her
heart. 1t may be mentioned by way Oh
explanation that / was an Albino OF the
putty-colored type. with hair like wet
sand and hands that couldn't exactly be
called small, and feet that had not worn
No. . shoes since / was baby. How
wished I'm those days that could blacken
my locks and part with - per cent. OF
my hands and saw of few inches OF my
feet. And this black-headcd Apollo was
held up before me as criterion uuul
hated every brunette I saw and got Gus
sin mad" and could have stamped on
any. Drown-eyed man l ran across. Ana
| kept getting discontcnteder ana dlScoh-
teutcder. and hotter and hotter, and
more billing angry until one day o stiiI
small voice. which finally got 70 shouting
told me that / was a fool. And ! agreed
with the still. small voice II didn take
me long 10 tell the future COMMANDMENT
chief that my application was no loHsei
on file, and tina, she could 20 ana se'ecI
her biacl-haired hero, with the soft eyes
and the insignificant hands and feet. Lld
she accept my RESIGNATION and say 'Het
thee hence" to me- Not bit of il. She
endorsed the sentiments Of the stu, small
voice which said I was q fool. and eN-
estate I'm me and TO devote her future
years to preventing me, as far as posi-
bic. from making an ass Of myself. How
well she has performed her vows in the
face of unspcakable obstacles, an adj
miring and bouquet-throWing public well
understands.
This IS the mellow, pneumonia-produc-
ing season of the year when woman
ever active w0man-takes II into her he1d
that she must plant the front-yard lh
flowers. and that a days labor on her
part is cheaner than paying 10 cents TO "a
colored urchin for the job. The Work Is
little bit out OF her ine-belnS only ah
annual duty with her-but she under
takes il bravely, and with perspir'ns
enthusiasm that knows no bounds. She
gets her husband off 20 business, els
daining his manly assistance, and then,
encasing her tender hands in gloves, she
tackles Mother Earth with the s. carving
knife and ploughs up the sod for wards
around. 1t Is dig and scratch, scratch ana
dig. for several hours with only an oc-
casional word Of gossip thrown across
the fence at ueghbors, who, from curl
/ osity, have assembled TO watch her opera
lions. Possibly, the woman will also
prune the rosebush with her husbands
poclet-knife he has just sharpened, She
will white out in her awkward fashion
sundry pegs TO designate the resting
places of the various seed which have
been placed underground. Her days
work is "A prOdigiOus one, and IN her
eagerness 10 accomplish It all she fOrgets
the suspender button which should have
been sewed on the trousers Of her con-
sort, and there is domestic discOrd when
the brute comes homo to dinner. The
woman is tiTed-yea, weary-and gives
her husband back talk and there is
trouble generally. But the flowers pros
per much, and the seed sprOut and two
months later. just as the buds have burst
into blossom. the woman awakes in the
morning TO find that some nocturnal fend
has come into the yard and borne away
the fruits Of her toll. She heaps impre-
cations on the thief. but never suspects
the iunerant goat that has recently been
lounging about on the suburbs.
II you see a woman with a cloth some
thing or other thrown over her shoulders
and hanging there Ike IL had dropped on
her by accident, you may know that you
behold a female IN a Russian blouse
Why Fashion decreed that women who
are generally pretty keen about finding
out what is becoming TO them, should
wear this outlandish garb IS more than /,
a profound student OF the gentler SEX
can understand The Russian blouse
seems 10 have been designed 10 make an
ugly damsel uglier and a lean lass lcaner
| and a fat dame fatter. There isn't any
| excuse for It unless IL be utilized by home
| " ladies' as an excuse for being ugly
Akin to this hipperty-noppity apparel Is
the Eton blouse which is gray