Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-26
NOV. 25, 1869
Clippings for the Ladies'


"A ward every man is elected to
His wife's wardrobe.
I'll don't admire lady's cuffs" as the
husband said when bis wife boxed his
ears.
The Infidel Convention of Phia-
delphia was attended by seventeen per-
sons, one a woman.
AN Iowa paper advertises for girl
to learr the printing trade who will wear
pants and saw wood.
An inveterate old bachelor says
ships are called "she" because they keep
a man on the look out.
An autograph sale in Paris, let
ter of Marie Antoinette brought 6 francs,
while one of Washington sold for %.
Fanny Fern having said that 'men
Of the present day are fast" Prentice re-
plies that "they have to be TO catch the
women"
The number of women who now
frequent the Paris Bourse daily, and yell
and scramble at the stock sales as do men,
is something appalling.
Fashionable young lady (detdcAing
her hair before retiring) J." What dreams
may come when we la We shuffled off this
mortal coil 7"
"A lady" teacher in New York re
Gently entered her school room so inebri-
ated that she could not attend to her du-
Ties, and an under teacher had to dismiss
the scholars.
The new fashioned ''stick. ups" bon
nels) are worn high above the head, and
consist of small piece of velvet with
flowers, lace, feathers, birds, butterflies,
and bugIes on top of it,
An economical girl in Portland
took all the medicine left in the house af-
ter her fathers death, in order that it
might not be wasted. She is recover
ing.
Rosa Bonheur parts her hair on one
side like man, smokes a post prandiat
cigar like man, and is so gray headed
that she looks older than her mother.
Anna Dickinson is pronounced a
'female charlatan" by the editor of the
Salt Lake Telegraph. He says her lee
lures are all "clap-trap and bosh," and
advises her to get married.
A Schenectady girl, who read the
Revolution and wanted her rights, went
to chewing tobacco to get them. She
got sick to her stomach, crazy and in the
lunatic asylum.
The kissing dodge which was recent
" practiced in New Haven, is now agi
tatiny Brattleboro women. The ''nice
young man" apologies so neatly, how
ever, that the girls now look for him reg
ularly.
Tho spinsters of Brattieboro were
much shocked, one day last week by a
party of yonng ladies from Glenwood Ia
dies seminary, who walked down to view
the ruins of the late fire attired in their
picturesque gymnastic costumes. A
good place for ihe dress reformists.
Matte Davis, one of the New Or
leans demi-mon6e, ''hoped God might
paFalyze her if it wasn't so" and she was
instantly struck blind, deaf and dumb
She remained in the comatose state for
seventy-two hours, when she died.
The editress of the Revolution pro-
poses to establish ''homes for fallen men"
that class who are led astray by false
curl, q little powder, pretty foot, a
wink of the eye, or the flutter of n
handkerchief. The strong minded desire
to remove from weak minded men such
temptations.
"A few days since Miss Kate Bate
man received as gift, from young la
dy Of New York, an exquisitely beauti-
full gold locket, upon the outside of which
on a rich jet surface is set msgnifi-
cent cross, containing eleven large dia-
monds. The gold ring, which attaches
it to the necklace, contains five small dia-
monds. The giver is an entire stranger
to Miss Bateman.
The lady leader of Sunday school
choir ia Deer Lodge, Montana, lately
started the tune of 'Marching up lions
HILL" on so exalted pitch that none OF
the little voices could reach the upper
notes. At the close of the first verse
this young lady turned to the superln-
tendent Of the school, and inquired =
"How is that for high, anyhow" and
then calmly started the tune on a lower
key.
The fashion writers say there are
very many pretty designs for winter cloaks
to be made in heavy material, or when