The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-05-04
GOSSIP FOR LADIES.
10 BIonde Be9n1y.

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GOSSIP FOR LADIES.
To a Blonde BeRnty.
Whence that completed form OF all COM
whehce came that high perfection Of all
Speak stubborn earth, and tell me where. o
Hast thou a symbol of her golden hairs
WHY SHOULD SHE?
A queer suit was tried at Binghamp-
ton, n. Y, last week, in which lady
brought an action for assault and bat
terry against young man, the action
being that he had kissed her while Oc-
cupying the same seat In a railroad car,
she being asleep at the same time with
her head resting upon his shoulder.
The jury failed to agree. The jury be-
haved badly; they should have acquit-
ted the young man, as he did no more
than he had u right to do TO any "yOung
lady" who goes to sleep in a railroad
car on his shoulder.
| - THE FIRST PROPOSAL.
A pretty French girl, ripe as Muril-
10 cherry in September, and about the
same color, went at the age of seventeen
/ " 10 " "a IA k4c COllr
venient age of fifty-three. The Mayor
said to her, "Do you consent to be the
wife of NfOnsieurle Baron L-H The
very nut-brown young lady burst out
| laughing, and said, 1tHoW droll YOU
are! This is the first time any one has
thought fit to ask me such a question.
Certainly, if had been asked before,
should have said 'No;' but as it Is,
come on" Every one was dreadfully
shocked.
ECoENTRIC FEMALES.
Some ofthose eccentric females emu
merated by Mr.. limbs, in his amusing
book, set all our conventional notions
at defiance. What would our sanitary
reformers say to Mrs. Lewson, or Lady
Lewson, as she was called, who never
washed herself, maintaining that the
persons who followed that necessary
practice, as it is usually considered,
"were always taking cold or engender-
ing some dreadful disorder" and yet
lived through five reigns, cut two new
teeth when SO, and died at the age of
| ll6! Another extraordinary woman,
whose adventures are recorded, was
Hannah Smell, who, having been de-
serted by her husband, determined to
set forth in search of him, and with this
view enlisted as soldier. Having
been accused Of a breach OF duty, she
actually endured five hundred lasheS
rather than reveal her sex. Some time
after this she deserted, and having pro-
ceeded to Portsmouth, enlisted as a
marine on board the Swallow, with
which she was sent to the East Indies.
In the siege of Poudicherry, she re.
ceived six shots in her right leg and
five in her left, beside dangerous body
wound. She never found her husband,
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that the wretched man had been exc
cuted at Genoa for murder. On her
return to England, Hannah went for a
short time on the stage, and afterwRrd
set up public house. Her eccentricity
turned at last to madness, and she died
insane In Bethlehem Hospital.
NAMING CHILDREN.
The day of using nicknames never
will die out, but the custom of christen-
ing children by nicknames and pet
names should be strangled in the era
die. The rising generation will blush
for the sentimental Stiffness of their
parents, who bestowed these names
| upon them. A writer says: "Girls, in
stead of being baptized with such SEN
sible, Old-fashioned names as Matilda,
christened 'TiIlie,' 'Lottie,' 1Maggie,' ,
and 'Sadie.' Ellen dwIndles into 'Ella;'
Susan shrinks into 'Susie;' Caroline is
made ridiculous by being cut down to
'Linie;' Emma becomes insipid in En-
mie:' and, most wretched of all, the
beautiful name of Mary is frittered
away in sMamie.' This nicknaming
would be all very we'll II in It's use il
was confined to the family circle; but
such names are given permanently to
children, and the future wives and
| nth Of To- FV,, Il
vertised list of letters and in every
school examination, as 'Lidies,' 'Su-
sies,' and 'Sadies.' Think of the wife
and mother of the father of his country
christened by the name of Mamie and
'Marthie,' and of the mother baptiZing
the future hero and statesman as 'Geor-
diep The First Napoleon would have
remained a bachelor forever had his
first wife been named 'Josie,' and he
would not have troubled an Archduch-
ess of Austria to take the place of the
discarded Empress, had she been named
Minnie LOUIE instead of plain and
sensible Maria LOuisa.'"
HOW AMERICAN MADE FLOUR.
An extraordinary story comes from
Mexico relative to flour. 1t appears
that an old miller in that locality had a
very beautiful young wife, of whom he
was Jealous in the extreme, and took
out his ouldgement OF that feeling in
thwacking the lovely young being.
There was a certain cook of the male
species, young, handsome, and fat, who
come from the hotel to the mill to buy
flour, and hearing the distress of the
lovely one first, and seeing her second,
became OF course dreadfully in love-
Some one told the miller. All the town
began to talk of the fact, and to laugh
at the foury. one. One day the cook
and the lovely young wife suddenly
disappeared, and merrily laughed the
MexiCans at the miIler's misfortune:
nothing went down but the scandal Of
the elopement of the miller's wife and
the cook. The miller scowled venge-
fully upon alt the town, and SO time
passed by; nothing more was heard of
the cook and the miller's wife by any
one. Two years after, the miller was
pleased to die, and to inform the world,
in paper which was left to be opened
after his death, and to be published in
the town, that the cook and his (the mil
ler's) wife, had, by his planning, eloped
into an oven two years since, and been
baked; that he would have got rid OF
them elsewhere but for the jeering Of
the public; therefore, he had ground
them up in large mass of corn, which
the towns-people were pleased to COM
! pliment him for, as being exceedingly
| rich and nutritious, and he only hopes
that they will enjoy the "Reminiscences as
he did the remainder Of his life that he
was spared whenever he looked upon a
| townsmau,
woMAN's CURIOSITY REWARED.
The Detroit Post says: ''Two ladies
called at the Office of one of our we'll
known physicians. While one of them
was consulting the physician in his
private office, the other, prompted by
curiosity or some kindred impulse,
i proceeded to investigate the contents of
a large case Of bottles, jars, &C., in the