Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-05
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.

A good side show-a pretty cheek.
Spring hats should be trimmed with
hops.
The only organ without stops is a Cos
sips tongue.
Mrs. Smith 81 Husband is the style of a
Terre Haute firm.
Judy wants TO know if chignons are
not hair-em scare-em things.
Mis-Construction-" Getting up" a
young lady in the height of the fashion.
Mrs. Calhoun writes, 81 know there i.
as much in me as in Anna Dickinson. v
What? jealous?
The women orators at the Iowa suffrage
meetings declare they will vote for Presi-
dent in 1872.
The young ladies of Council Bluffs, to
the number of thirty, want TO join one
of the fire companies. -|...
What costume ought to remind lady
of her washerwoman Why, her lawn
dress, to be sure.
A Northern correspondent in Augusta,
Ca, says the girls there are the ''rosiest,
ripest and roundest."
Every English mail brings the charge,
in some shape, that Queen Victoria leans
towards Catholicism. -.-
A lady in Indiana, with hair ten feet
long, receives $40 per week for merely
sitting in hair-dresser's shop as a show.
Women are employed on the police
force of Constantinople. They arrest
strangers attention.
Every plain girl has one consolation
though not pretty yonng lady, she will,
if she lives, be pretty old one.
A fashion paper speaks of ''The Coming
Bonnet" We'll, let it come, for there
have been no bonnets TO speak of fol-
years.
The Marshal of Wisconsin has had
three female applicants for the position OF
census-takers, but by the law of 1856
they are ineligible to the position.
An impudent fellow says, "ShOw me
all the dresses a woman has worn in the
course of her life, and | will write hel
biography from them"
The New England Female Medical Col.
lego of Boston was opened in 1913, and
since then has graduated seventy-fOur
women.
A correspondent who has been shaved
''by the active, tiny, gentle, and soft hand
of woman" says he likes it-that a wo,
man is natural barber.
The Wyoming women jurors, when
looked up for the night, said their "now
lay mes" just as nice. The men ju-
rors played draw poker for the whisky.
The Temptation Bow" is the latest
and most extensively patronizcd style of
neck-tie for the girls of the period.
Mr.. Greeley says that the solution OF
the question whether woman is equal to
man depends upon who the woman is,
and who the man is.
A certain young lady on Fifth
avenue, New York, boasts that she can
take an ounce of arsenic per day for her
complexion, and that it has no injurious
effect.
An amOrous swain declares he is sc
fond of his girl that he has rubbed tho
skin from off bis nose by kissing her shad
ow on the wall.
Trollope shrewdly asks, "Whcrc is the
woman who, when she has been pleased,
viii not show her pleasure by some sign
in her outward garniture9"
In a suffrage speech at San Francisco
Mrs. II. T. NJ. Brown insinuated that
when she WAS allowed to vote if any man
insulted her at The polls she should shoot
him.
Two young ladies' o. Peoria lately threw
young man into the gutter, pounded
him and pulled his nice curly hair, and
then walked away without telling him
what it was for.
A Cincinnati druggist declares that there
are no less than a thousand arsenic eaters
in that city and immediate vicinity,
mostly young women, who take the drug
for the complexion. --- .... --
Miss Schiff is the name of the lady who
wrote the play called ''The Countess OF
a Sisters Lover" Miss Schilf- or rather
mischief must be the author of great
many plays. --....-..- -
Seven American ladies are engaged as
sculptors in Rome at the present time
the celebrated Miss Hosmer and Miss
Whitney, and Misses Lewis, Freeman,
! Stebbins, Foley, and Virginia Ream.