Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-19
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.

Texas has fifty-fve postmistresses.
Paraguay has fifty women for one
man.
Lady Buggins is the name of noble
English woman.
May "vivsndieren under 20be said to
be in her ''can teens ?"
Girls are taking the place of ''cash''
boys in many of the dry goods stores in
New York.
A lady at Paris adyertiscs for employ
ment as ornamental guest at dinner and
evening parties.
A Troy (Kausas) paper announces that
a carload of girls could find early hus-
bands in and about that town.
The Princess de Metternich spends more
money for dress than the Empress Eu-
genie does.
1t was Maine man who remarked
after hearing Anna Dickinson: s1Wal,
meow, there amt nuthin' very coaxin'
about her, is they?"
Dressmakers in all parts of the coun-
try report a great press of business
greater than for years past at this season
of the year.
Miss Ransom, of Cleveland, Ohio, is to
paint the portraits of Gov. Huntington
and Gen. Cox for the Capitol at Colum-
bus.
The Empress Eugene has appeared
five times lately in the same dress. She
is setting the economical fashion, which
will certainly be universally followed
The women of Japan are the most in
veterate fortune-seekers, having their for
tunes told many times in day, OF until
they get an answer to suit themselves.
Mrs. Jennie June Croley propounded a
most ominous question to her sisters:
'Tet every married woman here ask her
self If she meant every word of love she
ever wrote to her husband"
1t is not long since England granted the
municipal franchise to women, and now
comes news that the Italian Chambers
have assented to similar measure for
Italy.
A ladies' society has been organized in
Paris having fol its object q reform in the
present extrayagant expenditure on dress.
Each lady promises to spend so much, and
no more, on her toilet annually.
Miss Mary F. Hovey, Professor of
German Languages and Literature in the
Agricultural College, Kansas, is mastering
the Swedish, with the intention of bring
ing into the institution the Swedish ele-
ment in the State.
A vote was taken in q Vermont town
on woman's suffrage. Out of eighty
two women in the district, but fourteen
wanted to vote, while fty-three declared
they wouldn't if they could, and fifteen
others did not care a button whether
they voted or not.
An old bachelor says if girl wants to |
know when she looks most charming in |
the mems eyes il is when she wears simple |
muslin dress, with frill of lace around |
the neck and at the wrists, and no orna-
ments but youth and freshness.
A duel was fought in st. Sebastian be-
tween the Lola Montez of Spain, the
de los R., and the Linda |
Vepita of Seville, celebrity of the ar
tistic and demi-monde world. Motive,
jealousy. The Marchioness was wounded
in the left arm. The police then inter-
fered and took the heroic ladies to jail.
'Mary Magdalen had seven devils cast
out of her. l never heard of man haV-
ing seven devils cast out of him."
growled a cynical old bachelor, in the
course of discussion on the "woman
question" ''No, they are not cast out |
yet, believe, " was the quiet response of
his fair antagonist
DR.. O'Leary says that girl can die of
too much love as well as from too little.
'If you ever see-one of those turtle dove
pairs who are always my loving my
1earing, my ducking' each other" says |
the Doctor, ''you may set it down that
Dne or the other will die of heart disease
Or consumption within three months, and |
It is most invariable the woman who dies. |
Those women" he adds, "who always
scold and speak Grossly to their better
never have the consumption
)r die of heart diseasen