Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — Masculinities. [ARTICLE]

Masculinities.

A new finger ring is of seven fine gold wires. If any love is blind it is a mother’s love for her only son. Taking a gentleman’s arm, and vice * versa, is going out of vogue. The latest feminine fancy is steaming the cheeks for the complexion. Fob every foot of stature a man should weigh twenty-six pounds. The devil never falls out with "a man who is well pleased with himself. Young women /are not allowed to graduate from German universities. A dose of cod liver oil can be nicely disguised in a swallow of tomato catsup. Thebe is no particular harm in riding a hobby, if you do not take up the whole road with it. “Hebe is another idle shattered,” said the young man whose father informed him that he must go to work. In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. The first court ever convened in Tennessee was held by Andrew Jackson under a sycamore tree at Elizabethtown. Wm. Jackson, of Ellsworth, Me., has lost six wives within the past fifty-five years, the last having died a few weeks since. “Thebe! that explains where my clothes line went to!" exclaimed an lowa woman, as she found her husband hanging in the stable. *