The Northern Guardian. — 1894-07-21 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

PPM. The si Aswan s glistened in ihe sun, as spotless as the  And all the curbs were scrubbed until they dazzled  with their glow. Down in the City Hall, dthin the office of the Mayor, I found a stately woman sitting in the civic chair: And all the business of the town with neatness and despatcli Was there transacted in a way you'd find it hard to  • match. And ns I walled about ti-' square I found that nil  wt. 91 p4.ftee Since that glad day when maids replaced the men on  the porfice. For man, brute as he is and Lad, I think 'twill oft be found, Refrains from kicking up a row when ladies am  around. . Indeed, it was a model town. this place that woman  ran ; 'Twas cared for like a well-kept house. But when I  came to scan The homes they'd left to take our city's interests in  their care. I truly stood aghast to note the changes that were  there. The squalor that had heen without was now, alas!  The rooms were. dusty, and the babes were henry eyed and thin: And while the town was better kept than it had  been before, The home and all its pease and joy had gone for evermore.  For sotneone must take care of home; and if the woman g,oes. To cares political, to man mast come domestic woes; And no man ever lived, I TOW, with strength to combat these, To meet domestic trials with a woman's grace and ease.  So, woman, won't yon kindly take this little hint from me, And let things stay just as they are? for surely you agree A dozen ntodel cities, each as proud as ancient ROMP Aren't half as fine an empire as one simple hapPy home. —Merptes' 1ra:7a71% BOOKS are so cheap now that the poorest people can buy and own them, and the richest can borrow and keep them. lINMARIIIT.IO LAM": " be a great tiling when husband and wife arc of mind." Married Lady : "That depends on WIPIPP mind it is."----Te.om Siftings. Ir a woman's age could be told by her teeth, like a horse's, man would occasionally have a chance to edge a word in. WE all of us live and learn : but some of us live a great deal more than we learn. Moar men would be pretty well satisfied with the world if no itne in it were better off than themselves. 'TIIII emancipated woman is a woman who sleet things as they are." " Yes • and she drives her husband to seeing things double." Mas. LAKTVIA: (TII Uncle Reuben, in whisper): "Uncle, do you always eat with your knife at home?" Uncle Reuben (in a loud and honest tone): "No; I gen'ally use a spoon on these 'ere soft wittles." A AN never realises that life is full of ups and downs until he strikes the downs. Doeena: "I can't imagine how Jackson hrd the nerve to commit suicide with a razor." Blitzen: "Perhaps he used it to shave hireself."—Puck. " I THINK von do well to call your book 'Fugitive Verses.'" I'm glad you approve." "You, it's very appropriate -though I think it's a great pity they didn't escape." "TALitreo of crops," said a grain merchant to a customer, "what was tbe most+ leenriant crop you ever saw ?" Customer: " Pliderewski's hair." Those who serve friends never lack employment. TRMPIRANCE, only, enjoys. MLDIOCRITY is unpardonable. As ungodly rogue 7ttrids no chance against& godly one. The timid and weak are the most implacably revengeful. No old cat but won hi like to bring her kitten up a rabbit. Lwr no good pass waiting for to-morrow. You may not be hem—if-rage. A HOWLINi4 swell—an til,-er:*ed tooth. IT is funny that the I,ltifi ,tildif..l the cargo before the train starts. Tux temperature of a. -0 "1104.11.6 love is materially lessened by poverty's refriverator. FEw are qualiGv'i tsi sl,. .r, company, but it is in most men's power to he II,: rt.t.:. THE business in which von knew you could make money is generally t e liian'f.—Te.ras Siftings. Jr ye expekt to gii ihro this world without being . censured and abused. ti bay sot to take a bak road, and travel bi nmonlite. Tin-mom:it neatne,s allY 'e other virtew to keen it commit')