Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-23
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.

Academy of Design-A young ladies'
boarding school.
Mrs. James Reynolds, of Harrington,
Maine, wove, in 1859, 1,427 yards of
cloth, besides doing her homework.
To undertake to reason a girl out of
love is as absurd as would be the attempt
to extinguished Vesuvius with glass of
water.
Olympia Brown says that no man who
smoked should be allowed to marry. The
reverend lady wants to exterminate the
race.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes says the
widows who cry easy arethe first to marry
again. There is nothing like wet weather
for transplanting.
One of the stipulations in an approach
ing marriage in Massachusetts is that the
bride shall pay the groom $500, cash
down, on the wedding day. Cheap.
The introduction of a female firm
among the brokers necessitates an addi-
ton to the geological nomenclature of
Wall street; to the bulls and bears we
must now add the dears.
An Iowa widow argues in favor of life
assurances. Her first husband was in
sured for $4,000, and the money thus
obtained will set her second husband up
in the grocery business.
The Home Journal, which has kept
up for some time list of marriage en-
gagements, has now founded department
for engagements broken" The list
should be headed "Ante- Nuptial Di-
vorces."
Words of comfort from q Gotham
clergyman to a sorrowing widow: ON
finitely better for you to sit and sorrow
at such pure and true mans grave than
to have forty living husbands by your
side, false TO God, and false to their mar
rage VOWS"
President Woolsey, in an article on di-
YOrce, in Hearth and Home, says that
the nation is running into distractions,
and is losing the idea of wOmanhood, and
that we ought not to destroy the ideal of
woman and of the wife, in endeavoring
to enforce wOman's political equality with
man.
Mrs. A. n. st. Clair, who last year
performed the journey of the Rocky
Mountains in her private carriage, has
recently arrived at her home in Maiden,
Mass, and will lecture on the Mormons,
her journey, ETC., previous to her depar-
ture in March for the Pacific Coast, China
and New Zealand.
A smiling, white-browcd, lily-fngered,
gOlden-haired woman, all silks and laces
and jewels, is an exquisite picture to con-
template; but at what cost of resolution
and and self-sacrsfice she preserves her
fair exterior no one but herself knows.
In doing this she fulflls her destiny; and
nothing more should be required of her.
Two young misses discussing the quail
ties of some young gentlemen were over
heard, thus: "Wcll, like Charley, but he
is little girlish he hasn't got the least
bit of beard. 81 say Charley has got a
beard, but he shaves it off" ono he
hasn't, either, any more than l have 81
say he has, too, and | know it, for it
pricked my check" That's how she
knew.
As the train with Prince Arthur aboard
stopped at the HOusatonic bridge, before
crossing the draw, several ladies of STRAIT
ford came out to catch a glimpse if they
could. One of the number, more enthu-
siastiC than the rest, shouted at the top of
her voice, prince Arthur Prince Ar
thur" when he opened the window and
threw the lady a bouquet, at which she
made very courteous bow, with very
pleasant ''Thank you, sir" and the train
moved.