The Fair Sex. The largest sheep owner in Texas is a woman known as the widow Calla- han, Her herd numbers 50,000. Louisville has discovered that woman are particularly fit to be drug clerks, and a number are already employed in the best stores. ‘They seem to learn by intuition,” says an employer; ‘‘one word or look suffices Where a mam would require a hundred words of in- struction. When my woman clerk has a matter in hand, I am certain that my order will be carried out,” GIRLS, BE CAUTIOUS, —(xirls, beware of transient young men. Never suffer the address of strangers. Recollect one good, steady farmer's trions mechanic is worth more than all trash the world. The urements of a Jack, with a gold chain about his neck, a walking boy Or indus- in dandy the floating all k in his paw, and a brainless though fancy skull, can never make up the loss a Kind father’s counsel and the society SL of home, amother’s of brothers These affections last while that and of such a man is lost at the wane of the Hkoneymoon. Take heed lest ye fall into the the fowler.” Too many have been already taken father’ 3 home and a good mother's counsel, and Girls. beware! snare of from a Kind made the victims of poverty and crime, brought to shame and disgrace, and then thrown upon their own resources, spend their few grief and sorrow, while its of that may be allured by remaining 1 11 skull is making world, bringing circuit around the its ignoble will all o his deceitful and many a fair one to the shame of his artful villainy, KY ATE WALES, Do. —Woman noisy, brawl- WosxaN CAN not become a WHAT 1 need Arse, ing politician, in order to be useful, no wear pantaloons, nor self generally. She out out of the pl her. The at it as hard as she will. and the fortune and happiness o a wife mother. woinal ildren ure thi By can secure to her th ent destiny. tact, she } E 1¢ ¥y herself a compe their 3 sort 111 oeginnt be itter how smal adverse a fate nay cheerfulness she ! shand’s spirit, shaken by tender liea By her business, 14} iid «an often restore him to ease has overtasked his power, counsel and love she can win him bad company, if temptation in hour has led him astray. her precepts, and her character, she can adverse however ible men and » Ri wt y ASSISVINng do more to regenerate rid th the 1 that over n all statesins ried EYER loorislate mer ICIS o she can do much, ak if #1 y can estimate the evil tia rade man, she chooses to de it, Wi 15 DOWer to do ¥ if wolnan As a wife she can n herself by extravagance, folly, or of affection. or an i wea pF wr hil \ she make a who Can Wwinou outcast of a4 man ght otherwise become a good member f society. She can brizg bickering, strife and discord into what might | she can the y oe can appy home, change and even the thus nnocent babes into men, into vile women. lower moral tone of SOCiety itsell. and pollute she can. in fine, become an legislation at the spring head. instrument of evil instead of an angel of good. Instead of making dowers of truth, beauty and spirituality spring up in her footsteps, till purity, the earth smiles with a loveliness that is almost celes- tial. she ean transform it to a black and arid desert covered with the scorn of all evil passion, and swept by the bitter blast of everlasting death. This is what woman can do for the wrong as well as for the right, Is her mission a little Has she no worthy work, as has become the ery of late * Man may have a harder task to perform, a rougher road to travel, but he has none loftiér or more influential than woman's, one ? Fashionable Dots. Trains are again worn, more of them being noticed at all festivities than in any season for two years, A neticeable feature is their plainness, No matter how much the costume may be trimmed, the train bangs in straight, plain draping, sometimes having a plaiting or shell ruching edging it. We have often writ- ten of the desirableness of a detachable train, especially is this useful for those of us who must economize in expensive dresses, and who are only occasionally found amidst festive scenes. To the society woman trained costumes are a necessity, and must be always realy for use, but the ** occasional * finds a trained costume out of style while yet unsoiled ; but, if a handsome walking dress, it can be worn for the promenade and quiet receptions, the train added, and giving an entirely different style for full dress, Often Ottoman or other rich silk or satin is used for the corsage and petti- coat of the dress, while the train is of Ottoman silk, brocaded with velvet, A very stylish evening dress at a leading house is in baby-blue satin. The lower skirt is laid in plaits, with a fan-shaped front, the drapery plaited crosswise, caught in the middle with a double bow of satin and edged with white silk em- broidery ; the back drapery in a full puff, box-plaited into a flounce, falling the main plaiting : the pointed in front ; elbow sleeves edged over basque with embroidery ; Directoire collar also of train ready to be added under the box-plait- (Htoman embroidery ; an adjustable ing that forms from the pufl, silk is found to wear nicely, merchants predicting for them a successful run; indeed, all repped silks are now more in demand than the soft, we have White Ott most elegant wedding s0 long been accustomed oman has formed some of the of the costumes winter, for full dress, s made thw # 1 # A raby tint 1 preferred, of princess or, il i te I linin wit} ate skirt Sik lining witl : ’ 1M3¢ ae 1} oat} po Oa Ist BB Laid han} i 3 +3 below a long-pointed vest Of The lower bau K part a border of sleeves, of as border made the Is 3ix0 full dress, well and home wear, hb +1 ¥ TE tv td ttiement point ba tabs, a fashion that 11 £11 1 ‘iab generally 1ollowed as SOT eY only the fronts back grenadine ford trimmed with lace French corset-maker id-fashi to the wearer. rumor 1 over the Folin belles. who are troubled about their too ample srtions, very frequently dis pr iN card the corset altogeth o their dresses made linings 1 heavy material, almost « dress bodice inside with strong i bones, shed with silk casing brought to us by retu I still. word is + § ih LOM, moxlistes wat those to French ladies who are deterncined ¢ 1 X 5} 2&3 look ethereal have taken to wearing to ““give an inch.” Beginning to Squeeze. Two or three years ago a Jersey the papers went to Washington to be hidden among the cobwebs until some clerk had nothing else to do but ex- amine them. After three months had passed a young farmer called to ask about the case, and regularly ninety days since that time he has drop- ped in with his: ** Well, any good news for the Widder Jennings ¥°° At his last visit the other day the lawyer replied after the same stereotyped fashion and added : * Do you live near the widow ?" “Only one farm botween us,” And she has told you to watch for the money ?"° “Well, not exactly that, but I've kinder taken it. upon myself to do so. If the Widder Jennings gets that $2000 before the Ist of April, my heart is going to yearn to marry her, If she don't git it I'm going to marry an old maid with twenty-one acres of land and a yoke of oxen. I wouldn't have come in to-day, but the widder she's a winking and the old maid is looking purty as a bed of onions, and things is every beginning to squeeze on me.” Pious Reflections. The Pllgrims. “Out of darkness into His marvellous light. What, nearly home? The sun is sinking’ fst. Around us rise the mountains dim vast | Aud lo! like mighty sentinels they stand To guard the borders of the Promised Land! and Longer and longer seemed the toilsome WAY, Touched by the sunlight of the waning day. We feared the night, our souls were sore distress'd, And yoet—God knew we were near our rest Behind us lie the deserts bleak and bare, The valleys haunted by the flend Despair, The flowers whose sweetness was a poisoned breath, The groves were chilly, shadows harbored death Before mist, * . - . - . * I'he vision of the Great Evangelis The heritage of all the saints | Jerusalem the Golden, meets oul us, shining through the sun-gilt me Ourselves and Others, A second degree of love, always rare in practice, is a plain and level dealing with thi each other's needs, 5 WOrse Li too much candy an many honeved words 7 f Oo Progress, Love shou i urs unwelconms Ercy in nmuany SPOKE Olt, Hi i ould Fick were srgel, there divinely remembers Of Interest to Canoeists. The 3 nuniers American Canoe Associat severn! hundred members {he fied } United States and Canada, a clubs are in active existence in nearly | every considerable town in the land. It | is known that there are in Philadelphia a pumber of canoeists who ply their pad- thei Dela. ware and its tributaries, and it has been { dies or trim sheets on the i i i i suggested that steps be taken to unite | thelr scattered interests for the common advantage. To this end all who are in- terested In preliminary step, to send their addresses to Mr. W. Howard Faulkner, Univer- sity of Pennsylvania. Due notice will be given should a sufficient number re- spond to justify an effort for permanent organization. The American Association contains clergymen, lawyers, physicians, journal- ists and representatives of all the com- mercial interestsof the country. Itnum- bess among its members men whose hair is grey, as well as undergraduates and school boys, and it emphatically discour ages all tendencies to the ** professional ™ practices which are such an objection- able feature in many large organizations of this character. New York has two prosperous clubs, and in its immediate vicinity are several others, Philadel phia, with her abundant and beautiful water-ways, should surely be able to muster enough amateur sailors to man a considerable fleet of these seaworthy canoeing ave invited, as a and serviceable little craft. An exchange heads a column, ** Jokes on half-shell.”” We presume that the jokes were so loud and pronounced that they bu'sted the other half, The United States Treasury : The peo- ple work every day to fill it, meets once a year to empty it, One time there was a barber. And one day a feller he cum in the shop for to git shafed, and he handed the barber a ecard which was wrote on like this way : “For my hair-— Taller, clone, lard bergmot, pematum, oil, tonnick, restor atiff, pitchooly, gum, beeswhacks, ker- riseen and tar. For face—L ole cream, camfric, powder, ham fat, sof Congress my sope, glissern poltice, rooje nammel, black’n. my sames hair, only more taller, muchtash--Do, starch-glew, When the #1 cle giant cement, shoo whiskers - For For my morter and ber red sodder, fies bay- he it was iu lited, and he 1 to th + ‘ “You Bek lt most are the sed And of in sabbath because iting and pay were jew and far towns, and the as a8 a bear hunt, Hoberts tne nained then live ing in the woods of Clinton county, +1 at the county seat on and before leaving he called wd a talk, “‘lIs 1 the minister and 1 it “Yery wrong.’ ‘How “That is wick- have the 2 wuld,” was the reply, about plaving cards ?"’ ed, ‘Can't match?’ “Not if want to aot we shooting. Nabbath-—not Lan't we H of you be log-heaps a-Me, dig ont foxes, tap sugar trees, look after bear-traps or go fishing on Sunday ¥'° ** Not as a Chris. tian man. Let we read you a few lines in the Book.” When Roberts started for home he walked very fast, and nine o'clock at night he arrived at the house of the nearest neighbor, and walked in on the family and called out: “ Say, Bestwick, do vou want to go to Heaven ¥' “ Why, vess I suppose so,” replied the other, ** Then be at my house at daybreak to-morrow morning with your axe. I am going to give the land to build a meeting-house on, and you've got to help cut the logs," “Any hurry about it’ “Hurry? Well, 1 should say #0. We've got to begin early and work late, and put in our best licks, or our ever getting with- in forty miles of Heaven will be such a tight squeeze as to rub the hide off, Bostwick, we are sinners of the deepest dye, and [ tell you we've got to git up and hump and hand over enough maple sugar to pay for at least four sermons and some powerful loud singing or gown about we'll be cut down like a flower, '’ “Woman is Fearfully and Wonder~ fully Made.” You sing of girls with gelden curls And dimpled cheeks and ching, Of rosy lips nnd finger tips And pench-and-creamy skins; But you omit to add to it, They're falsely estimated ; Their beauty ’'s cheap, it's scarce skin deap, And poorly nickel-plated! These Megs and Mauds are veriest frauds, wi truth I will maintain Till women wear their natural hair Upon their pates again Fo- by their arts they win our hearts And make us half demented Ti'l we are won. und when that's done Too late the act's repented They're made of stays in wondrous ways, Of whalebones, pins and pads, And lace and gimps and puffs and crimps To fool the simple Inds! Their very hair you now declare Ro lustrous, long and plenty, It is well known is all their But own one time out of twenty! Precise and prim sand neat and trim, In faultiess fashioned si LO elo ries 11 ds 1 With Encased in ts Without a Conscience. NO feimel i DIeG batter 11 POOR lard. 3 i Rags of burned Diack o Ve is potatoes, Like G Lot's wife, [ash Forbidden ground. ts bliss : "tis folly to investigal ject too closely. Pork grease, and beans-—Should be termed beans. and brown sugar, Stom- ach in rebellion for three hours after. Chopped meat and apples of Mince pies ay Yin preserved in brown sugar. Shoe : cheese, hand on, which has as il that piece of pie’s faithiful companion for a week. Hot rolls—Suggest through excess of $ % saleratus the eating of of yellow a bar Soap. Tea—Slops. Solution of tannin, made possibly last week and renewed from day to day. Cream toast-- Three small slices toast ed black or Batter of flour, water and salt poured over them, brown. It is on diet like this that thousands are unconsciously starving to death and going to prémature graves It is diet like this that causes the slow torturing fiend dyspepsia, to stalk through the land, scattering his hundreds of pro- tracted agouies on every side, It is with bad blood, weakness, and with weekness, desire for rum, and with rum, murder and death, Tt is diet like this, long indulged in, that makes men mor- bid, gloomy, fll-uatured and vicious, It is the hurried restaurant cook, who, in these various horrible compounds, ladles out as much slow poison as does the barkeeper. Sin and misery. disease and death, lie at the bottom of the kitchen pot, always stirring, never resting, day after day; so that the taste of the mixture cooked yesterday pervades that cooked to-day, Future generations will read with horror of the enormities com- mitted ii the public kitchens of 1883 1 | Tt Cullings. In a town not many miles from Bos. ton, 4 man stepped into a neighbor's house, where he saw the head of the family lying upon his back on the floor, and his wife standing over him, as he thought, with a threatening air. He was about to withdraw, when the prostrate mhn shouted : “Come along in, Steve ; she is only chalking me out a pair of pants,” Mrs, Partington ‘Are you the judge of said Mrs, walked into an office of a judge pf probate, *°l and the judge : reprobates 7°’ Partington, as she am a judge of probate, was the reply. HWell, that's it, old ‘You detested, he I expect,” quoth the lady, Bee, TOY father died left several li i $41 Lit and Heard in are company is sudden, chillness Howed bv fever, alia appelite, headache pain in hroat, aggravated by swallowing. n. the tousils, the arch any cases the {OCCASION 1 hex ens of most marked benefit t« taut EY ¢ von # mlernal Aaimninisiral soda and the lution of boro-glveeride frequently during the day. - i - A Touching Incident. 3 ONE of tin ¥ + 5 } most fouciy of the mlensity of the ever having occurred knowledges in our was shown in the case of the Chinaman who died on the effects of handsof three voung 1 and Christian Sunday evening from wounds received at the oughs at Neo streets, on the They entered the place and without pr vocation assaulted him, i senll with a flat He was picked up senseless and taken fracturing iron. to the hospital, and evervthing was Jone for him that was possible, but he was so unhappy, away from his countrymen, that they felt obliged to return him to his comrades, A Chinese physician from New York was sent for, and two young lady teachers from the Sunday Schoo he attended, visited him every dav but his case was hopeless, and he died Sun day night as stated-—holding in hishand, and pressing almost with devotion, some clay brought from China, He could not die in China, but he rev. erently pressed some of her soil in his palm, as he sank to his final rest on earth, so far from home and friends, “Home, sweet, sweet home, "Bryn Mawr (Pa.) Home News, : ——————— In. tearing down the old Thos, Jef. ferson building at the southwest corner of Seventh and Market streets, Phila. delphia, a large number of old flint were found that once belonged to revolu- tionary muskets. In this house it is suppbsed that the Declaration of Inde pendence was written,
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