Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-01-30
Chit-Chat for the Ladies.

The French Empress paid the milliner with
whom she recently quarreled $4,000 year.
A New York lady was lately married in a
white velvet robe which cost S45 900 in Paris
a baby in Massachusetts is blessed with seven
living great-great-great aunts, who take turns at
nursing it.
The golden hair" mania seems to be as
catching among the bellies of America as it has
been in Europe.
Mr.. Corcoran, the rich banker, is going to
build in Washington, at his own expense, an
asylum for aged and INDECENT women.
The old ladies of Richmond are disputing over
letter which arrived at that post-otice, ad-
dressed To My Dear Grandmother"
1t is suggested that the women of the country
take vote on the question whether they desire
suffrage; and if that be decided in the atirma-
tive, it will be time enough to agitate it,
family left Buffalo for week, recently,
their house remaining in charge of a servant
girl, who gave succession of balls at which
she appeared in her mistress dresses and Jew
elry.
Mrs. Cady Stanton, she Of the strong mind
says of % Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup" that
she doesn't believe there is y Mrs. Winslow, and
says that 1t Is 'compounded by some ignorant
man in whiskers, broadcloth and boots, who
lives and fattens on his ill-gotten gains, while
babies are sent by the hundreds to untimely
graves, or made idiots or lunatics for life
The tails of chicken cocks are now worked up
into provokingly good imitation of paradise
feathers. Let the imitation be trihe closer
and the latter will be as badly tabooed as the
feathers of the ostrich now. We haven't
ostrich feather this Gan nv
The plumage of the vulture and turkey buzzard
is so manipulated that the difference between the
plume that mods over the shoulder of the lady
and that which droops the body of her
Biddy is not discernible in the distance across
the street.
1t has been suggested that there must be an
instructive reaction against man going on all
over the earth at the same time, inasmuch as
the woman's rights movement seems to have
been spontaneously developed in the farthest
East. The Rajah of Jeypore recently found the
female members of his family so intractable that
in despair he placed over them special guardian
named Futteh Singh A feminine rebellion was
the consequence. Each fair Oriental asserted
her own rights, and the consequence was that
the unlucky guardian was suddenly attacked by
two thousand women at once and not only we'll
beaten by the fair inmates of the place, but act
ually had one of his arms broken The earth
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disturbing forces have affected even the female
element in the East.
Will the coming woman smoke? In all prob
ability, yes. 1t is sad to contemplate such
contingency, yet feminine folly is evidently
drifting toward tobacco. We are told by some
of our exchanges that Boston cigar dealer
makes the startling statement that he sells an
average of three hundred cigars a day for ladies
use and thinks that at least one thousand are
smoked daily by the fair ones in that city. We
are told by another exchange that one of the
amusements of the 'girls' of Erie, is smoking
contest. This shows that female smoking is not
a mere Yankee notion, but like the Grecian
Bend is liable to crop out anywhere. We are
sorry for it, 1t won't do to make fun any
longer of the snuff chewing Iladies of the South,
The cigarette putting ladies of the North are
quite as abominably ridiculous.
Madame de Genlinslin in her memoirs, describes
the training she underwent to fit her for Partisan
society in the last century:
l had two teeth pulled out I had whalebope
stays which pinched me terribly; my feet were
imprisoned in tight shoes, with which it was i'm
possible for me to walk had three or four
thousand curl papers on my head and | wore
for the first time in my life a hoop. In order to
get rid of my country attitudes, | had iron
collar put on my neck and as | squinted lit
Tie at times, was oDIlgeu 10 put on goggles as
soon as | awoke in the morning, and these
wore for hours | was, moreover, not little
surprised when they talked of giving me mas
ter to teach me what | thought | knew we'll
enough already-to walk. Beside all this, was
forbidden to rua, to leap, or to ask questions.
The GREAT WoRTH.-tAnd what Worth may
that be?' is very naturally the query when the
expression is heard for the first time dropping
familiarly from feminine lips. Why, this Worth
is of Paris growth; he is a mau-that is, man
mantau-maker and tyrant. He not only cuts
and fits the dresses of Partisan ladies' but of the
American ladies in Paris; dictates what they
shall wear; snubs their peculiar fancies lays
down the law in regard to shape and color ex-
plains what is most allurng to the eyes of man,
and why-and, in short, dresses the best dressed
women who, in consequence, deem their toilets
faultless and themselves irresistible. Men nan
tau-makers are very common in Germany, they
are not wholly unknown in England, but in
Paris their popularity has reached its climax
through this same Worth. His last edct is that
he cannot allow fur to be worn outwardly this
year. If worn, it must be concealed the human
figure must be treated with respect, and not as
II 1t were bear. Crinolines, of course, he does
not tolerate, being man Of taste; nor long pet
'ticoats in the streets. Perhaps prudish taste
would pronounce the length he permits little
too curtsiled, as the dresses are festooned or
drawn to the back over loop, "a coeotte. but
in compensation, he allows trains of any length
to evening dresses. The favorite color is fasame
de pessoe, in remembrance of the recent erup-
tons ef Eesuvius. What shall we have next in
the way of singular fancies? Earth hquake-bon-
lne0 and tornado-scarfs possihly