Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
FOR M

I, FOR WOMEN.
Bonnets and hats generally have the
trimmings higher than last year.
Dress skirts generally have the front
breadths plain, a little fnllness at the
sides, and more at the back.
Mrs. Woodruff, the brokeress, is an
~nounced to u in 1872 for President of the
United States. What next?
The solution of the question, whether
woman is equal to man, depends upon
who the woman is and who the man is,
If a lady were threatened to be kissed
by a gentleman, and she objected, what
place near the coast of France might she
name? Ushant.
A fashionable sleeve for outdoor gar
ments is the open Venetian style. These
are very graceful, but are often found in
convenient in wear.
The Wyoming women are beginning to
complain about being compelled to sit on
juries. They say that to them such q task
is decidedly injurious.
AS the season advances, sleeves will be
trimmed by quillings or fringe arranged
in various styles; the purely plain sleeve
is going quite out of fashion.
The following toast was given at a re-
/ NOnN DALAACEs AAAAb5 VI hONldH-L
she cannot be captain of a ship, may she
always command a smack"
Gloves are worn OF light colors, and are
fastened with small gilt chains or double
buttons. Long gauntlet gloves are only
worn on full dress occasions.
In dress bodies the vatican style, form
ing an open square in front, still cOntin-
ues in favor, the opening generally filed
in by a ehemisette of pleated muslin.
Chinese parents give away girl-babies
soon after birth. In this country they
are retained until they become marriage
able, when they are often regularly sold.
"That's very singular" said a young
lady to a gentleman who had lust kissed
her. "Oh, well, my dear Miss" was the
reply, :" will make it plurall' and the
villain did.
Dresses for the house are to be hounced
nearly to the waist, with straight, narrow
flounces; the overskirt made very short,
without a front breadth, and exceedingly
high at the sides.
A three hundred pound colored woman
in B~ucktown, Ind, has been frightened
into a spell of sickness by a report that
the medical students had offered a reward
of two hundred dollars for her.
Do you think" asked Mrs. Pepper,
I" a little temper is a bad thing in a wo-
! uAAh. NGAAdAhAl hbks Lld IL AbpAACu
a gallant philosopher, i" it is a good thing
and she ought never to lose it.
With the various styles OF close fitting
casaques, short capes or pelerines will be
worn, and for the hotter weather some of
these casaques will be made without
sleeves, when the pereline is added.
There is a young lady in one of the
Biddeford mills who is worth at least
$4,000, but who works quietly, day by
day, earning her six dollars weekly, in
stead of retiring with a competency.
A woman is like ivy-the more you are
ruined the closer she clings TO you. A
vile old bachelor adds: Ivy is like wo-
mantle more it clings to you the more
you are ruined" Poor rule that won't
work both ways.
The very loose or square cut paletot is
still worn extremely short, in fact reach
ing very little below the waist. Some
have the corners of front rounded of,
others are left square, and the fronts gem
orally have revers.
The extremely long trains are not so
much in favor az last season, and hounces,
either fulled or quilted, are taking their
place. From all appearances the time is
not far distant when long trains will be
entirely discontinued.
A married man in New Hampshire has
adopted an original method of economy.
One morning, recently, when he knew
his wife would see him, he kissed the
servant girl. The house expenses were
instantly reduced $500 per year.
A Boston lady complains that a sweet
tempered d~yspeptic, a little too spiritual
for this world, and a little too material for
the next, and who therefore seems always
lowering between the two, is considered
the highest type of female loneliness.
- sAz-1 q = T ----
mistress of fifty languages l would think
in deep German, converse in the gay
French, write in the eopious English,
sing in the majestic Spanish, deliver in
the noble Greek, and make love in the
soft Italian"
As proof of the fact that girls are use
full articles, and that the world could not
very well get along without them, a late
writer states it as a fact that, if all the
girls were driven out of the world in one
generation, the boys would all go out
after them.
A Troy, n. Y, lady, Mrs. James Nc
PhersOn, persuaded two burglars to give
up the attempt to enter her house on Sun
day evening while all the other members
of the fapfay were absent to church.
Pluck and4 pistol were the moving cause
of their departure.
One distinguishing Characteristic of the
present fashion, both in ~casaques, short
jackets and costumes en- suit, is that they
are all made with revers. There are, of
course, nan notifications of this style,
and it is likely to continue in favor during
the coming season.
ado you believe in second love, Mr..
McQuade?" do L believe in second
love? Humphl If a man buys a pound
of sugar, isn't it swate? And when it's
gone, don't he want another pound7 And
isn't that swate, toof TrOth, Murphy, I
do believe in second love-"
Lady Franklin was at Psnams on the
LIST of April. She left England in the
steamer Patagonia, for MontevideO, and
came thence to Panama by the Limena.
She is on her way to California, and
thence, it is said, intends to dispatch
further exploring expeditions to the
Arctic ocean.
A Michigan woman has recovered by
law all the money that her husband had
spent in a liquor saloon for six wears. The
prohibitory liquor law of that State does
not regard liquor as property" n the
woman recovered the money on the
ground that it had been paid to the liquor
vender without consideration.
A change that is taking place in sleeves,
besides the diseOntinuance of the epau-
lettes, is the tendency to have them com
poSOQ Vi a pldiu part as AdI IA INC ctbONs
and the lower part formed of a frill or
sort of 1ounee, Joined to the plain part
by a ruching; underneath this is worn a
large bishop sleeve of muslin or lace.
An old lady in Laeonia. N. H, full of
sender sympathies, was always in the
habit of eondoling with those who were
bereaved by the death Of friends. On
one occasion she told a mOurner that her
case was not so affecting as her own, for /
she had within a year lost a dear husband,
two children and i've skeins of wOolen
yarn. Go
Mrs. Victoria C. Woodhill, Womsn's
Rights Woman, a candidate for the next
Presidency, says: SCI nave deliberately
and of my own accord placed myself be-
fore the people as a candidate for the
Presidency of the United States, and hav-
ing the means, courage, energy and
strength necessary for the race, intend to
contest it to the close"
Monogram fans, ta~stefully designed in
wood, will DO en- TegLe at the watering
places and seaside resorts this summer.
Space will be left for amorous SWANS to
write love coupIets, mani of which, i
after years, will be priced as dear souve-
Mrs by the fair creatures who twirled !