The west shore., March 01, 1884, Page 87, Image 26

THE WEST SHORE.
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A WOMAN'S OPINION.
WHAT is my opinion of women kissing each other ?
I don't like it, and don't see any very good reason
why they should do it. Sometimes, where women or
girls really like euch. other, and adopt the kiss as the
strongest mode of expressing their preference, it is
excusable, but this business of women kissing each
other because custom permits it, is, I think, not only
nauseating to the women, but is a slander on the pro
verbially dainty taste of the sex. There is truth in the
old Baying that women kiss each other because they can
find nothing nicer to kiss, but the truth in this instance
does not warrant the practice to the extent that all women
must kiss, because, when it comes to that, women can find
something nicer to kiss men, for instance. Outside of
any personal feeling, and merely as a matter of form,
I know plenty of men I would much rather kiss, than
lots of women I know, and whom I am compelled to
osculate, and there are thousands of women just like mo.
I know the women have brought it upon themselves, and,
since they have, I think it incumbent upon themselves to
take decisive action against it, and instead of having it as
a tyrant, make it a servant and use it aB they see fit
Women, more than men, are the creatures of fashion,
and they endure all sorts of torture, from the physical
agony of a tight corset or a tight shoe to tho mental
agony of unbecoming clothes, rather than tresspass uixm
style, but I boo no honor or credit to them in it, and until
they are strong enough to throw off this yoke, they will
be deserving of the title, "the weaker vessel," which
they have shown themselves through all tho ages, not
only willing, but fitted to bear.
world anyhow, why should you add one pound of wicked
ness or sadness to the gonoral burdon ? Suffer injustice
a thousand times rather than commit it once.
A MEAN MAN'S THOUGHTS.
SOMETIMES I wonder what a mean man thinks about
when ho goes to bed ; when he turns out the light
and lies down ; when the darkness closes in about him,
and he is alone and compelled to be honest with himself.
And not a bright thought, not a generous impulse, not a
manly act, not a word of blessing, not a grateful look,
comes to bless him again. Not a penny dropped into
the outstretched palm of poverty, nor tho balm of a
loving word (bopped into an aching heart ; no sunbeam
of encouragement cast upon a struggling life; the strong
right hand of fellowship reached out to help some alien
man to his feet when n..no of these things come to him
as the "God bless you" of the departed day, how he
must hate himself 1 IIow he must try to roll away from
himself and sleep on the other side of the Imd 1 When
the only victory he can think of is some moan victory, in
which he has wronged a neighlxr. No wonder he always
sneers when he tries to smilo. How pure, and fair, and
good all the rest of tho world must lxk to him, and how
cheerless, and dusty, and dreary must his own path ap
pear. Why, even one lone, isolated act of jnoanness is
enough to scatter crumlw in the bod of the averago ordi
nary man, and what must bo the feelings of a man whose
whole life is given up to mean acts? When there is
bo much suffering, and heart-ache, and miBerv in the
HOW SHEEP WINTER IN MONTANA.
riUIE manner in which tho Bhoop of Montana pass tho
J. winter in Buch excellent condition lias boon a puzzle
to those not familiar with the country and the climate.
It is thus summarized from statements made by an ex
perienced sheep man of that Territory: Snow to tho
lopth of fifteen inches, provided it is not lncrustod by a
rain or checked thaw, dews not retard their feeding in tho
east, as they can easily nose around in that much of the
lloecy covering for their daily bunch grass. Then, again,
when the ground is bare and grass easy to get the frisky
animals are doing more racing around than eating. Thoy
will nibble a bite, and then seeing a tall, waving bunch a
rod ahead, off they start for that, and ho they spend tho
whole day, when they ought to bo filling their stomachs,
in looking at the country, and only sampling tho feed as
thoy go along. With snow on tho ground thoy would
make a clean up as they go along, tho cold snow not
being near as inviting for a run and a frolio as the grass
covorod plain, so that tho animals really seem to get
more to eat whon there is a liberal sprinkling of snow
over their fodder. Thoro aro always little ixinh and
knolls which the wind has blown bare, and the flock noon
make clean work of a patch of that kimL Tho inovitablo
oold, stormy days, with the wind in tho north and lots of
snow flying will find the sheep of tho gxxl shepherd
peacefully nibbling away on some hay within tho shelter
of the corral and sheds. Shelter and some fcxxl besides
that which is rustled for on the range aro now provided
by all intelligent wxl growors, as it is a " penny wise and
pound fxliHh" policy whon thoy try to save a lew Uol
lars and do without
WHAT CHINAMEN HAVE' DONE
CHINA is nearly as largo as EurojM, and contains a
much larger imputation, every third man in tho world
boing.it is calculated, a Chinaman. Their progress in
tho past has been most marked; thiw tho Chinoso apjmar
to have boon among the earliest, if not tho very earliest,
of the human raco to emorge from barbarism. Thoy
have a litoraturo older than tho days of Moses, and
astronomical observations that go back at least to tho
days of Abraham. Comparing their early progress with
that of Eurojwan nations, they were clothed in silk rolms
when our savogo ancestors still painted their naked
bodies. Thoy invented printing, and hod printod lxKkn
alxmt the middle of tho tenth century, five hundred yoars
lieforo the time of Caxton. flunjmwder and tho mariner's
compass wore Chinoso inventions long Iwforo thoy worn
known to Eurojxians. Lieutenant II. N. Shore jxiinted
out, in a recent pair read Ixifore tho Society of Arts,
that in tho matter of canals, tho utilization of carrier
pigeons, the artificial culture of oysters, fish and ixtultry,
and in the satisfactory solution of tho great sewage que,
tion, the Chinoso have boon before m in time,