Year: 1879

THE FOOLISH REQUEST.


shyly he bent DER the dsinty head


And, Wont you won't you?"


He softly said.


Begging from the saucy miss


Just for the loan OF one sweet kiss.


The maiden tossed her pretty head
And, No, won't YOU


| She saucily SAID.


How foolish he is," thought the little miss,


=" He should not ask for, but steal the kiss


The law that was intended TO stop the foolish
work OF killing innocent people by pointing un-
loaded y guns at them is fat failure. Half
dozen valuable lives have been lost that way
recently, and since the 1st OF January no less
than 2S cases of serious manning have resulted.
The writer recalls bat two arrests under the
law, and one Of these was followed by the care
less shooters release. To oe sure it is a little
bard to punish man for what he did not mean
TO Go, but few punshments would make tins
gun foolery less popular


very interesting young couple hailling from
Flint, Michigan, we're arrested at Buffalo " Y,
on Thursday. They travelled as two boys. bnt
the prettest "boy' turned out to be a girl.
After lodging the skilful questions OF the cap
tain OF police for some time she admitted that
she was gay young masquerader; that her
name was Emma SImonson; that her father
was saw-miller; that she read dime novels
etc.; that she and her companion, Harry Clark,
had eloped after due correspondence on the
matter; that she got $50 out of her mothers pock
etbo ok, bought boys clothes at Detroit, and
then struck out for Buffalo with him. They
bad roomed together in a Seneca street board
ing house, and had otherwise been very impru-
dent, the Buffalo papers say. Emma had cut
OH her golden tresses and carried them with
her in hand bag. Harry wac released and
Emma was detained until parties rom Flint
can come and get her.


or late years journalism has offered a new
field for educated women and 10 day in Amer
lea, there are a few who make money and whose
names are known TO every one. But, alas we
see and hear OF those who win the many who





People are apt to fancy writing for the press.
easy work, which any woman with tolerable
fuency-and most women are nuent-cap Go.
In point or fact, no procession needs more
| training. man who sets up as cabinet
maker, knowing only how to handle plane
woman who essays shoemaking, expecting sue
cess because she can sew a straight seam, is al
1 mic .ha a.
and fame among writer's on the strength OF her
ability to write a readable private letter. And
| journalism-steady, faithful work-which is
ready with Its article TO order on any subject,
is the only literary WORK which may always be
depended on for daily bread and butter. let
alone the cakes and sweet meats SO dear TO the
feminine tooth There is always plenty OF
room at the top but genus Is the blossom
| ing of an sloe-the fruit OF century. Talent,
applied to pluck and perseverance, is sure to
WIN in the long run but II must be, IN most
cases, by hand-to-hand fight with defeat-a
close contest with the struggling crowd at the
bottom. In general literature, even when there
has been real talent to back the aspirant, and
where success has come at last it has often
come after many failures, and the pecuniary
reward is often pitifully small. 4 distinguish
ed writer is repol ted TO have once SAID, jocnlar-
ly, that his books averaged him 81 % a year
apiece, and even the great noyests OF the
century have not made fortunes. The woman
who can gain descent Nsing by her pen may
count herself successful.


The Phrenoogical Journal and Science OF
Health opens. its sixty-ninth volume WITH
variety OF themes which must please everv
reader. A sketch and excellent portrait OF
Dean Stanley first attract the eye. Next we
find seasonable article entitled Fire lies, in
the course of which these brilliant objects OF
the summer evening are well described. Two
supposed organs of Temperature and Respira-
tiveness are discussed by critical PhrenoiogIst,
whose opinions incline him to accept the first
mentioned. The poem entitled The Innocent
Sleep exhibits Mrs. +. Oakes Smiths facility
in versihcation. Making Home, is an article
which fathers and mothers generally should
read with care. Place is gwen to Mrs. Lock
wood, the Washington lawyer; the portrait
certainly indicates woman of marked intel
lectual ability. The admirable articles entitled
Brain and Mind, are continued the fresh IN
stallment relating to the Education of Children.
In our opinion this series OF articles should
be published in volume form. The sugges
tons gwen in their course are much too yalua
bic to be laid away with the old numbers Of
the magazine upon the shelf of the subscriber.
Whether one accept the tenets of the PhreD-
illogical system or not, he can not fail to find
the philosophy of Brain and Mind OF great
practical valuale. The closing chapters OF
Uncle slmmie the Cripple are as entertaining
as the first. In the Health Department, there
are some good suggestions with regard to rest
and recreation. under the title of The Philoso