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Trifles For The Ladies

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
November
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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A Brooklyn bride's back hair feil down and feil offAnring the ceremony in church he other evening. There was an instant's ause, but nobody was brave enough to toop down and piok up the mass of )londe stufif and hair pins. The bride eft the church leaning heavily on her íusband's arm. Her face waa very red, and a aproutofhair (possibly eleven hairs n all) stuck out at the back of her head, ied with a bit of shoe-string. Coupon tickets are the latest thing at rashionable weddings. The large card securea admission to the church, and the coupon entitlea the holder to a reserved seat. Now let ua have a printed programme of the ceremony with a list of he bride's presenta, and the name of the irm furnishing the trosseau annexed ! A gentleman can stand it to hear a couple of ladies discuss the fashions for bree or four hours at o, time, but if he ;arries muoh longer than that, he gets ets, galloons and ouirass basques most ïorribly mixed up with shell sabots on Wattean fields, and begins to feel that if ie dose'nt get out into the fresh air pret;y aoon he'll die, - Brooklyn Arqus. The Eastern Daily Press records the marriage, " after forty years' courtship," of Mr. J. Flemingham to Harriet Smith, both of Acie, Norfolk, whose united ages ainount to 128 years. The happy couple left the' church amid the ringing of bells and roaring of cannon. A correspondent wants toknow how to break s cow that is afraid of a Toman. We haven't thought sufficiently on the subject to give an answer, but in New Jersey, when a cow is afraid of a woman, she quieta the animal by simply hiding tier back hair under the milk pail, The Lowell Courier boldly insinuates that if the women had been oompelled to wear such coarse gooda as are now the fashion, by any forcé leas palatable than Eashion is, they would have winced. Somebody has been dreadfully annoyed by the slow progresa of ladies on the sidewalks, and now he is trying to make them think that it is fashionable to walk fast. The ladies have worn all sorts of flowers and fruits in their hats, and now they have a turn-up on the side.

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Michigan Argus