Since then these gentlemen have all learned that the fashion calls for a
red strip at the bottom of a dress, and they will make no more mistakes.
But they were all serious enough, and their interference was prompted by
pure kindness of heart, and not from any wicked thoughts.
A NEW SPARKING SCHEME.
A number of fathers who have daughters, have formed a society, the object
of which is to charge young men who visit the girls, for meals, gas, wear
and tear of furniture, etc. There has been so much sparking going on which
did not mean business, that the organization has seemed necessary.
EFFECTS OF MINERAL WATER.
A woman from Milwaukee, stopping at Sparta for the summer, had a serious
accident the other day. She had her dress pinned back so tight that the
exclamation point where she was vaccinated on the left arm was plainly
visible, and as she stooped over at the artesian well to dip up a cup full
of physic, a little dog belonging to a lady from Pilot Knob took hold of
her striped stocking and shook it, thinking it was a blue racer. The lady
was overcome with heat and sank down on the damp ground, and the result
was congestion of the dog, for when she got up she kicked that dog over
the Court house and sprained her stocking. It is said that beautiful and
healthful summer resort is fast filling up and everybody swears it is the
most enjoyable place on the continent.
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