Judge — April 22, 1882 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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How They Do It in Japan. Wuex, from prudenceor passion, the widows | of Europe aud America desire to seek con- | ation in new matrimonial all are decidedly less practical t Japan, A shell hair-pin, enwreathed in raven. locks, and arranged horizontally on the back of the head, typically indicates their abt rence of single blessedness, thus toleratir not inviting, proposals from the opposite sex. They have no confide in melancholy caps, and yards of somber erape, though worn with exquisite coquettish skill, believing that habiliments of woe naturally discourage gal- lantry, and that the interest which they ma exceptionally excite slowly, if ever, riper into affection. The widows of Yokohaina frankly proclaim their intentions, and are not constrained to resort to the personal colamn of a newspaper, or depend upon significant glances, or the agency and negotiation of relatives and friends, Will not some enterpri city venture to introduce the matrimonial nal service” of Japan? municate intelligent courage to bashfal bachel ors, and diminish the duration and agony of widowhood, though perhaps incur the hostility of ambitions and marketable spinsters, so) “sofa lop A WAY TO MAKE TATTOOED PE nees, they | the rea! ing widow of our | Tt would com- } nn of doubtful expediency, ernment officials, to place a pinet. But if the new incum- bent of the Interior Department lives up to ificance of his nominal designa- those of | tion, the people may be the gainers by his ap- pointment, CompLimests. like honor: one mo are easy, when ters the methods of paying them. Thus we find ex-Senator Conkling playfully alluding to Govet as “that lizard on the hill, overnor’s turn, and it remains to be seen whether or not he will prove equal to the exigencies of the oc- casion. SoctaL announcements from Was wind up with the reassuring statement, “Gen, Grant will be there.” Bet your bottom dollar on it every time—so long as a canvas back remains to be eaten, or a bottle of Pommery See to be cracked. Under such inducements the General is never so much ‘at home” as when he is abroad. ‘ington all Tue most confident person who boasts of “feeling it in his bones” is the sufferer from rheumatism. And he can swear by it every time, It ought to have been a cold day indeed when so frigid a character as Charles Francis Adains, of Massachusetts, was left; but such appears to have been the temperature of Boston the other day, when the Adamito ice berg was taken in and done for by a Banco man, forsooth! Great statesmen, like great icebergs, have their melting moments, no doubt, and that C. FP, A. is of them, cannot well be donbted after his late most unhappy experience. A Herald cablegram informs us that “Mr. Tennyson has the gout in h:s feet.” Reassur- ing news, this, Judging from the poetic quality of The Heavy Brigade,” we were not altogether unprepared for the announce- ment that it had attacked the other ex- tremity. Tue report that Commissioner of Agricul- ture Loring contemplates importing Welch Rarebits from Wales direct lacks confirma- tion. Tur Sun's Washington corresponpent as- ts that “the methods of Hon, A. S. Hewitt are simple and casily understood "But, some- how or other, the dupes of the Morey letter business do not quite concur. comicbooks.com