Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-19
Clippings for the Ladies


widows.
"A monstrous petition to Congress
for female suffrage is circulating for sig
natures.
AN Iowa exchange says, eff a
woman cannot be captain of ship, she
can always command smack"
"A writer in Harper's figures that
only two Americans out CT twelve carry
watches, and only one woman out of for
ty
"A lady in New York is trying to
better her disposition by dieting on
sweet potatoes.
Mr.. S. declared that his wife had
five fuls-"she was beautiful, dutiful,
youthful, plentiful, and an armful."
What in the difference between very
young and very old women9 The first
are careless and happy; the second are
hairless and cappy.
&C, w. Harris. of Trenton. Ca,
better known as "Sut Lovengood." was
married recently to Mrs. J. E Pride Of
Decatur, Alabama,
--"She isn't all that fancy painted
her," bitterly exclaimed rejected lover
sand worse than that, she isn't all that
she paints herself"
"A person of some experience crys-
talizes the wisdom he has acquired in the
following sentence: "Courtship is bliss,
but mstrimony is blister"
-"Priuciples before men, is maxim
that the ladies do not indorse. With
them it is men first, and principles-if
dulness and commonplace must come
afterwari.
Two females created quite a senation
in Boston the other evening by promena-
ding Washington street with lighted
cigars between their lips.
Gay cloth jackets are worn for
shopping and negligee by young ladies.
They should have revers and edging or
pinked cloth lined with white. stitched
on by braid in the centre.
At some of the fashionable board.
ing schools, it is said, in the East, young
ladies are taught the cart" of refusing an
offer so as to give the victim little or no
pain, or perfect avalanche of agony.
jet jewelry is greatly in favor again
and modistes say that dress trimmings of
jet are to be revived. as nothing else is
SO appropriate for the velvets and cash,
n;eres now worn.
Skirts are very narrow or very full,
as taste dictates, and either way is now
in style. The hoop is small, seventy
inches for a small person, and not over
FIVE inches added for larger sizes.
Young ladies have adopted round
bats instead of bonnets this season, and
are wearing them not alone for semi
dress at church, on the promenade, or
when travelling, but at wedding recep-
tons, the opera, and for ceremonious
visits when full DIRE SIS toilettes are requir-
ed.
The hair-dressers' latest importa
tons are long switches of slightly crimp.
ed hair in Two massive plai;s of three
strands each, forming the fashiona able
chatclaine braids. These plaits are at
tatched TO comb that is placed forward
on the head, and are long enough to ex-
tend straight to the nape Of the neck.
A case occurred at Sydney Ohio, a
few days since that may be considered
sensational. A beautiful young lady
called an one of the stores in that place,
and asked the polite clerk if he had any
"feline intestines for lyrical purposes a.
She wanted catgut guitar strings. For
once in bis life the young man was "weak-
ened," and was car ried out en- Cancelled
postage stamp.
The fashionable wife of our day is
a good deal like mosquito in your
room after bed time. You can never tell
exactly where it is by its song, and you
are even in agony of suspense as to when
its bill is going to be presented.
"A young lady from the country be.
ing invited to party, was told by her city
cousin to fix up and put her best foot
foremost, in ord err TO catch Leau, 'she
looked SO green in her country attire."-
The country lass looked comically into
the face Of rather faded relative, and ie-
piled, ''better green than withered."
The Emperor Of China is fifteen years
old, and is to be married this year with
immense pomp to bis first and chief wife
bis Empress. He will be simultaneousl
provided with second and third wives,
and from all parts of the Empire victims