Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-01-08
Waits for the Ladies.

nette.
Young lady physicians are put
ting out shingles il. every proml-
nent city in the country.
A medical man says that those
ladies who make it a business to
trouble the linen diapers, and
never buy anything, ought to be
called counter -irritants.
81 am sorry to say said a
sheriff to a handsome young wild
ow, "that i have an attachment
for you" ~ am happy to say,
sir. that it ism t mutual"
at is a shame, husband, that |
have to sit here mending your old
clothes.
"Don't say a word about it.,
wife; the least said the soonest
mended."
The French comic papers por-
tray Madam Auconard, who is
pioneering the woman's rights
movement in France, as a fat wo-
man firing a cannon loaded with
hair-pins and hair-powder.
A schoolmaster in Maine at
tempted, the other day, to punish
a naughty girl. She started to
run, and he caught her by the
back of the head, when she
screamed, For Lords sake, save
my new switch.
A lady in Paris is now mourn
ing with undated grief the loss
of her eleventh husband. She
hopes to complete the dozen some
time during the winter.
Why are ladies like watches?
Because they have beautiful faces,
delicate hands, are more admired
when full jeweled, and need regu-
lating very often.
A fashionable younglady, sport
ing the prevailing style of switch,
was somewhat startled the other
day as kindly old lady, not cup
to the style" approached her with
the information, " Your back hair
is coming down, Miss"
nYou've DESTROYED nv peace of
mind" said a respondent lover to
a truant lass. at cant do you
much harm, John, for twas an
amazing small piece you had, any
way" was the quick reply.
Mamma, what are paniers ?"
Baskets worn on the backs Of
donkeys, my dear"
"Then, mamma, Sarah must be
donkey; for she told Jane that
she would want a panier next
Sunday"
The Princess Matilde Demidoff,
Prince Napoleon's sister, intends
to live hereafter at Cannes, on the
shores of the Mediterranean. 1t
is said that NJ. Theophile Gautter,
her intimate friend and librarian,
intends to follow her into her re-
tirement.
Don't put too much confidence
in lovers signs and VOWS" said
Mrs. Darlington to her niece.
Let him tell you that you have
lips like strawberries and cream,
cheeks like a carnation, and an
eye like an asterisk, but such
things oftener come from a tie nder
head than a tender heart"
The latest quotations in the
matrimonial market-Marriages
scarce and depressed; engage
ments dull, and but few coming
forward courtships long and lin
gering; mercantile business dull !;
scandal markets overstocked /;
beaux, supplies light, stock infe-
rior and in good demand dis
carded lovers plenty, and stock
accumulating; tattling a good as
sortment.
One day, at dinner, a scientific
lady asked the late George Steven
son, What do you consider the
most powerful force in nature 2"
ooh, . said he, in a gallant spirit,
Z" il will soon answer that question;
it is the eye of a woman for the
man who loves her; for if a wo-
man look with affection on a
young man, and he should go to
the uttermost ends of the earth,
the recollection of that look will
bring him back. There is no
other force in nature that could
do that"
Eliza Emery, of New York,
warns all the girls in the South
and West to look out for her gay,
deceiving, runaway husband, Da-
vid. She says that he has cruelty
left her, and told the folks when
he left that he was going south
west to preach teetotalism- Eliza
thinks he may easily be known
and to prove it says: david has
a scar on his nose, where
scratched it
The following dialogue was re-
Gently heard in New York in an
Eighth avenue ear:
First yourg lady-SO poor Su.
san is dead?
Second young lady-Yes, poor