The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-06-24

to protect sea birds while nesting.
They certainly are part of the sea
coasts charm; the sea gulls them
selves, and the most beautiful OF
them, the terms, have been nearly
wiped out by the agents of the mil
liners. The larger gulls are not only
very beautiful, but absolutely essen
tial as harbor scavengers.
Ministers in the pulpit are denounc-
ing the practice of wearing birds
feathers on the hats. "A living bird
is moving jewel in Natures laby--
rinth of beauty and sublimity, but
dead bird on a hat is useless" was
what one said of them last night.
After all, can we not be contented in
our incipient insanity unless we go
about looking like the chief of the
Wampanoags, or the last of the Mo-
hicans, with a tiara of feathers appar-
entity emerging from our poorly bal
anced brains? We hear of bold
contract recently made which calls
for 20, 1000 birds from Delaware, but
the "Blue Hens Chickens" have put
their feet down, and there's veto on
that, thank goodness
There seems to be an idea among
some persons that girls and women
are not bread-winners, nor intended
to be; that money, or the uses of it,
or its handling is misunderstood
article. But when I heard that one
of our sex had taken up the question,
and put it in book form, felt en-
couraged. "How to Make Money,
Although a Woman" is the title,
and really perusal of it will be of
service to young women and those
who must go out to earn living. It
is written upon actual experience, and
points out methods, and without
preaching, offers valuable advice.
It's matter and manner is attractive,
too, and will be the more likely to be
needed. It's author has written an
other, "How To Get Married, AL
though Woman, in the same series.
So, don't despair, keep up your heart,
all ye single ones and if you do
marry, don't "buckle up' with a
foolish, weak-minded namby -pamby,
who is tailor's model, a walking
fashion plate, else you'll waken up
in misery some day, because you have
no sympathy with his countless coats,
trousers, etc., and their cut.
Girls, we know that we can some
times be funny, and here's what
very young scholar gave for her CON-
position on boys" 1.-THE boy is
not an animal, yet he can be heard to
considerable distance. When boy
hollers he opens his mouth like
frogs, but girls hold their tongue,
till they are spoken to, and they am
swer respectable and tell just how it
was. A boy thinks he is clever, be-
cause he can wade where it is deep,
but God made the dry land for
every living thing and rested on the
seventh day, and when the boy grows
up, he is called a husband, and stays
out nights, but the grew up girl is
widow and keeps house"
1.-THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of
year,
OF cleaning paint. and scrubbing floors, and
securing far and near;
Heaped in the corners of the room, the ancient
dust lay quiet,
Nor rose up at the fathers tread, nor at the chill
dren's riot.
But now the carpets are all up. and from the
staircase top
The mistress calls to man and maid to WELD the
broom and mop.
"Where are those rooms, those tidy rooms, the
house but now presented,
Wherein we dwelt, nor dreamed OF dirt, 80 quiet
and contented?
Alas! they've turned them upside down, that
peaceful set of rooms,
With slops and suds and soap and sand, and tubs
and pals. and brO0ms.
Chairs tables books are lying round, at skies and
at sevene,
While wife and housemaids fly about like me-
teors through the heavens"
Perhaps some of you know how it
is yourselves, so you can sympathize
with Yours, AUNT 10.
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