Year: 1873

of no female dates although mandates
are plenty.


WEDDING cards are now issued with
the notice No plated ware" printed in
one corner.


SPRING-BEDs have found their way
to Japan, and Chinese women are
almost persuaded to try the hustle.


An elderly gentleman was shocked to
learn that every fashionable young lady
carries a paper to back her.


AT Elmira Female college the fair
" sophs" have interdictsd the wearing
of false hair and bustles by the
freshwomen.


IT Is an established fact among rail
road men that new road is good for
at least fifty elopements in the coun-
try through which it runs the first year


An old lady in East Saginaw, Mich
igan, has gwen D0nds in three hundred
dollars not to scold her neighbors for
an entire year.


A WESTERN widow would like to meet
the printer who, when she advertised for
an agent, made her appear to want g a
gent.


JAPANESE paper-work is the latest re-
creation and amusement for ladies. A
vast deal of tissue paper, paste, scissors,
paint, and enormous amount of patience
is all that is required.


A YOUNG lady of Gratiot, Michigan,
still a minor, has two husbands living,
to each of whom she has been married
twice within few months.


''SHALI [ have your hand?" said an
exquisite to a belle, as the dance was
about to commence, g With all my
heart, was the soft response.


A FAsrIDIoUs Connecticut gentleman
preferred to pay $4,000 on a breach of
promise rather than marry a young lady
who did not spell correctly.


The house that Vanderbilt has re-
Gently given another daughter to wed,
Daughters nowadays know all men by
these presents" Hers amounted to $50
600.


THE Indian women of the Rocky
Mountains ride their horses man. fashion,
on saddles with such high pummels and
cantles that they are almost buried up
in them.


A LADY in Marseilles has sued hair
dresser for two thousand francs dam
ages. He had offered to dye her brown
hair red, and in consequence of his OPP
erations, it turned violet. She was
obligliged to have her head shaved.


A GENTLEMAN at the Crestline, Ohio,
depot, was asked to hold a Christmas
parcel for a few moments until the lady
made another purchase. He now wants
to trade or give away babe warranted
to yell on the slightest provocation.


Mrs. STANTON says that the American
men are the noblest and handsomest of
any country she has ever visited, and
if the girls could cultivate their minds
and learn to work with their hands, that
they, too, would be more beautiful and
manageable.


NOTHING makes a Minnesota husband
so mad as to fill his boots with buck
wheat cakes in the raw, and then laugh
at him when he pulls them on. Mrs.
Smith, of Winona, will indorse this
statement as soon as the swelling in her
nose subsidies sufficiently to enable her
to read.


CONCERNING the "Money Value of
Wives Hearth and Home says that
d" Already too many speak of the money
supplied to their wives as money given
to them. Now, the fact that there are
no women who more truly work for their
living than do worthy wives and
mothers.


A BosToN gentleman whs could not
waltz, offered a young lady a hundred
dollars If she would let him hug her as
much as the man did who had Just
waltzed her. It was a good offer and
showed that money was no object to
him, but they put him out of the house
so hard that his eyes were quite black.


MoDEsTY would suggest that ladies
wearing towering hat and sky-scraping
plume should not take front seats at
theatres and operas. In London ladies
occupying the best seats at the theatres
are compelled to remove their hats and
bonnets.


A SECRET organization of young ladies
is said to have been formed IN a Western
town under the title of " League for
the Suppression of Male Flirts," and
much curiosity is felt by the masculine
portion of the community to find out
how many of their fomale friends be-
long to it.


A NEW feature of social entertain
ments this winter will be "proud par
ties" They derive their name from the
circumstance that each person invited
is requested to furnish pound of
pastry. confectionery, fruit or other
edibles for the table, and thus an ele-
giant support is provided. The parties
are given at private residences.


BRIDAL trips are going out of fashion.
The custom is an absurd one, without
a single sensible reason to commend it.
The proper thing for a couple to do now
is to run down for a week or two to the
country residencs of one of the families,
where, with a large and well appointed
home to themselves, they spend
sensible honeymoon, if such a thing be
not a paradox. The new plan is i'm
ported from England.


A JEALOUS husband at Canaan, New
Hampshire, placed beam in his attic,
provided with a bag Of crackers, jug
of frozen water and aH AK, waiting for
the supposed destroyer of his happi-
ness. His wife on the second day called
in the suspected person, who was pass
ing the house, to help her discover the
cause of the noises she heard. The
husband, when discovered in his retreat.
playfully threw the axe at the heads Of
the pair, but unfortunately missed his
aim


A CHICAGO man had read somewhere
how to tell the time by a cats eyes. So
he traded off French clock, belonging
to his wife for a gallon of whisky and a
Thomas ssst of the large arav- eN-pec-