Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-01
OF WOMEN.

France has a wOman's rights advocate
who holds forth publicly on the plural
ity of fathers.'"
The Burlington Iowa. Hank Fye pre-
diets that the women of Iowa will vote
for the mex President.
Miss Anthony is impatient at the long
nap theb bill for a sixteenth amendment
is taking in Senator Trumbul's pocket.
An Ohio girl has laid by the sum of six
hundred dollars, all gained by making
corn-husk door mats at ten cents each.
The number of young ladies who are
studying for the dramatic and lyrical pro-
fessiOns in New York is said to be UMPIRE
cedentedly great.
lady excused her extreme love of dia-
mOnds and other precious stone by say
ing''that they were the only bright things
On earth that never fade"
After a wedding it was formerly a Gus
tom to drink honey dissolved in water
for twenty days-a moons age. Hence
the origin of honeymoon.
The Italian ladies have presented a peti-
ton to the Chamber OF Deputies, asking
for the establishment of a large number Of
schools or colleges for women.
A girl of sixteen, near Montreal, recent
~ took arsenic to whiten her complexion.
None could question her success as she
Law in her coffin the following day.
In a suffrage speech at San Francisco.
Mrs. H. F. M. Brown ~insinuated that
when she was allowed TO vote If any man
insulted her at the polls she should shoot
him.
The chancel of the cathedral at Portland.
Maine, has been elegantly 50 tiled p at the
expense Of a New York lady, who has
done the work in memory Of a departed
father.
Some of the strong minded women de-
nounoe matrimODy because they saw
,Ihere is something childish in it." It
does have a somewhat infantile squint,
we admit.
In Winterset, Iowa, they have adopted
Ins plan OF having women make address
IS to the Sabbath Schools. beJieving mat
mothers and sisters know best how 10 in
terest children.
OF the four hundred and ninetv-six
ladies who have graduated at Oberiin Col
lege, one hundred and seventy-two have
married gentlemen who were graduates
Of the same institution.
A Cincinnati druggist declares that
there are not less than a thousand arsenic
eaters in that city and immediate vcin-
ltys mostly young women, who take the
drug for the complexion.
Mrs. DR.. Dodds, of st. Louis. calls aloud
for somebody to come forward and discuss
Ihis great question: Shall the Coming
Woman Wear Petticoats." Dodds h
on the flowing draPery.
Miss Eveline L. Gates, of Yellow
Springs, Ohio, writes that she likes trou-
sers and wears them, believing them more {
'o~miortable, convenient and decent arti-
'les OF apparel than flowing skirts.
The court balls Of Dublin. given by the
Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland, are described [
As much more enjoyable than the stiff 4
,draWing-rooms" of Queen Victoria.
they take place in the evening, with re- {
reshments. ,
AT Westminster, Vt, one daylast week. 7
here was a party of one hundred ladies' :
ogether, and one suggested that thew I
axe a vote on the female suffrage cues
ion. There was not a vote in favor Of /.
be measure. L
The London NeDs has been fighting the a
AnlDitors OF female gymnasis, and the /
once has gone so far as to prohibit an :
from appearing on a tight-rope [
Nth her babe on her shoulders, as shel
7as ont TO do. 7
'.Ihey say" that sooner or later-that'sj /,
ather indefinite, isn't It2-Lydia Tbomp- r
IS 10 appear before us in ~the~legifi- :
rate drama, written for her by the elder y
.dnlas, IA which she will probably appear =
! long clothes. 8
1lBAhSh laoy VINO ever took a =
egree in medicine was Miss Maxwell Ina Y
but She had TO come to America be- d
re she could do so; u in England -
ass Garrett entered upon tbs praetloe of
in 1860. n
l~nstigated by 6emale ~eloquence, some a
the san Francisco journals have COM =
eneed the work Of shaming men ou4nd 9th
y goods stores, restaurantS~ -AtaoEqQaaas
IS, as work altogether baesath The dig 81
~ Of the muscular and Superior half or ii
q,
The Iowa State Register records the w
Dry Of ak young ladies attending col az