The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-08-16
Ladies' Column.
A Cuban girl of fifteen is the most sue
cessful belle at Lake George.
A young lady in Cleveland lately broke
her neck sliding on bannisters.

one in the country.
Queen Victoria presented : Nova Sco-
tia woman, who recently gave birth to
tciplcts, with three pounds sterling.
Butter ten cents pound and eggs Eve
cents dozen in Texas, and still radicals
insist upon reconstructing it. il
Maria Gass has been offered $4,000 a
month to sing in New York. She must.
be volatile Gass if she doesn't accept.
y Babies are numerous in New York ash
barrels.
Prentice says that in his city stulhng
improves the fair as we'll as the fowl.
To a lady who kissed her hand to me
Such kisses have no taste; I owa
They leave me cold as any stone; IA
Kisses are fruit whichTorthless DO
Unless VIC pluck them off the tree.
Mrs. Sfonewall jackson has just re.
ceiyed bequest of$lO,0OO.
Why is a lady whose dress touches the
floor like vagrant? Because she has
no visible means Of support. 60
How to please lady-Let her do as
she plcases.
In personal encounters, women, n,galiko
cats, use their nails. They come to tho
scratch with alacrity. -,---.-----.-
A Partisan has left thirty thousand
francs to his wifo's lady's maid. A,seene
ensued after the funeral. 3sgr
Miss Nellie Harlan and another young
lady have taken up farms for themselves.
under the homesteed,law, in the north
western part Of Iowa.
A California theater furnishes q room
where babies, can be. left, checked during
the performance, which will doubtless bo
check upon the practice Of bringing
them at all. '---- n u
A young man stepped into q. bookstore
and said he wanted Young Mans
Companion" "Well, .ir,"asaid tho
bookseller, "here is my daughter I"
d A gentleman one day indisoreetly asked
a lady friend how old, she was. shere-
Acctcd-"Let mo sec; I was eighteen
when was married, aud my husband was
80; now he he is twice thirty, which is
co; SO, Of course am twice 1S, which
is 36. ,+s5,sF 7 .s5. ].
It's the privilege Of the lover to DO at
one and the same time In two situations.
When beside his sweetheart he.is also boz
side himself.
Tue Daughters Of St. Crispin held q [
convention at Lynn, Massachusetts,, last
week. Tho Daughters bind shoes. t''ii.
Shakespeare saJs-"Frailty, thy name
is womau." A French translation hasit:
"Mademoiselle Frailty is The namo Of tho
lady," '. = e,
An old lady hearing somebody say that
tic mails were very irregular, said :--"lt
was just 50 in my young days-no trust
ing any Of EN-"
A lady in St. Louis has suod dentist,
for So, 600 for breaking one Of her teeth
while extracting another.
A young lady who brokehcr pretty leg
by defect in tho Cairo sidewalk says an
injury to its proportions cannot be COM
pcusated at less than 100000.
Ladies delight in adjectives, but gentle
men prefer nouns. One likes the rose
for its odor-the other for its substance.
At ST. Marks Church, Troy, New
York, helpless little girl was, the other
day, burdened with the baptsmal name Of
Susannah William Croswell Doane Tay-
lor, III honor Of the new Bishop Of that di.
oceso. .f tN aet
Weman-an essay on dress and dia.
monds, in one volume, bound ID silk and
kid, and although EXPENSIVE it is 10 great
demand. t. ~. ..,
The Reroiutton wants females oh the
police but we fear this would augment
the won't 60 home till morning fellows
to an alarming degree.
After marrying coupleda Louisville
clergyman exclaimed Forgive them,
Lord, they know not what they do"
A western ycupg lady who rejuices id
the name Of Margaret Wexal, is elabora.
ting Miss Anthony's theory that ladies'
should pop Che question. Pop goes the
Wesal. lf'i5 n
Some women We meet are physically
beautiful, and some spiritually 50. The
,.er cot type shohld. like old port, POSSESS
bhh body and spirit.
A betrayed young woman in Detroit
dressed herself nicely, purchased her
shroud, read her Bible, wrote d ntte rel
qnesting that her hair should not 10 cut
Oft, and then, poisoped herself.
A Chicago husband seek 5 1, divorce BE-.