Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-06
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.

-Four Western State Legislatures have
elected women enrolling clerks.
A young Women's Christian Associa-
ton has been organized in Baltimore.
Mrs. Martha West has been appointed
a justice of the peace by the acting Gov
ernor of Wyoming
Miss Magdalen Louisa Stockwell is q
member of the Freshman class of Michi-
gan University. ann
The highest Office in the order of Good
Templars in Missouri is filed by Miss
Julia Drew, of st. Louis.
The degree of NJ. D.. is now conferred
upon women in France, Scotland, Russia,
Switzerland and Sweden.
Charlotte E. Ray, daughter of negro
preacher, has entered the Howard Uni
versity at Washington, d. c., as a stu
dent of law.
''Suites for the sweet" as the hotel
clerk said when he showed the newly
married Matilda the row of rooms appro-
priated TO her.
A California paper heads an article,
Remarkable GOODNESS of young lady"
She passed another woman and never
turned to sheer at her bonnet.
A marrying bachelor anxiously asks if
il would be of any use to attempt to make
love TO young lady after one has stood
on her dress till he could hear the gathers
rip at her waist.
A Trenton paper reports that an aged
couple who celebrated their golden we'd
ding in that city recently, are childless,
but 'this deficiency was supplied by gifts
from a number of the guests"
A Cincinnati blonde caught her high
heels in a cellar window grating on the
street the other day, and when she was
extricated was two inches shorter and had
lost all her style
Mrs. A. p Marvin has been elected
professor of logic, rhetoric and English
literature in the Burlington University.
Mrs Darwin is said TO be a lady of
thorough attainments, and amply qualified
for the duties of the position to which
she has been called.
There is a society of colored women in
Richmond, Virginia, called "Thc
Daughters of Enoch." The dusky
daughters are in tears, however, just now,
because their Secretary has absconded
with eighty dollars, dishonesty obtained
from the treasury.
At a conference of presiding elders re-
Gently held in Boston, it was resolved to
call women out still more prominently in
public religious services, and also in the
official places of the church as stewards,
class-lcaders, superintendent of Sunday
schools, etc.
Marriage offers the most effective op-
portunitics for spelling the life of another.
Nobody can debase, harass and ruin
woman so fatally as her own husband,
and nobody can do a 1.-THE so much to
chill mans aspirations, to paralyze his
energies, to draw sap from his character,
as his wife.
Mrs. Clark, of Cleveland, cOnjured up
at the Ohio WOman's Suffrage Convention
an imaginary object on which to vent her
wrath, in the person of a Hypothetical
man who looks on a woman as ga neces-
ssry article of domestic economy" Our
acquaintance with our own sex does not
comprise any such deluded individual.
The latest and sweetest thing in fashion
is the alexandra limp" ShOemakers in
London now offer their fair customers the
choice of boots with equally large heels
for each boot, or the far more charming
variety of high heel for one foot and
low heel for the other, causing the wearer
to halt in a way supposed to be initiative
of royalty.
A numerously- signed petition has just
been presented to the Legislature of Penn
| sylvania, which asks that three women
inspectors shall be appointed for the Phil
| adelphia county prison. 1t is urged that
in managing cOnvicts of the female sex,
| men are liable either to misunderstood
] their wants, or to be too harsh with them
in consequence of lack of sympathy; or,
if the offender is young, pretty and fas-
cinating, they are often entirely too lcni-
| ent.
Rumor has it that Signor CeTuti, late
Italian Minister to this country, will soon
visit the United States. A New York
lady is the attraction; and SignOr Ger
| ruti left this country solely with the view
of making the necessary arrangements
| for his marriage The lady is Miss
Niles, of New York city, daughter of a
former United States Minister to Sardinia,
and wealthy Signor Cerruti now repre-
SCENTS his country at the Court of Madrid,
and first met his intended in that country.
Miss Niles is twin daughter of the step
mother of the famous French novelist,
| Eugene Sue-AIry Niles having married
Mrs. Sue in Germany The twin daught-
ers are supposed to be the ones referred
to in the ''Wandering jew" The mar
rage is set for the month of May.
Mrs. C. f. Mckay, of Massachusetts,
memorializcd Congress, the other day,
demonstrating against the right OF sui
frage being granted to women. She be-
Iieves that large proportion of her sex
do not want the ballot, for the following
reasons: It is outside of their proper
sphere, and women already have enough
TO do without mixing in politics, and uni
vcrsal woman suffrage would imperil the
safety of the Republic by an immense in
crease of the unintelIigent and incOmpc-
tent vote Mrs. Mckay considers the
colOrcd women of the South far more
| ignorant and imbrutcd than the men, and
that it mould be dangerous 10 give then
the vote. WOmankind in general she
recommends 10 go in and win in the vari-
GUS fields now opened to her, and moi
bother about the ballot.
The Paris correspondent of an En2lisl
journal gives hope that the reign of hid
eousness has well nigh come to an end
and the fashion of woman's dress is to bt
simpler hereafter. Madame Olivier
high-bodied white muslin ball dress ha'
made mark in the world of fashion,
| Simplicity and short skirts are much more
prevalent than they were last winter. L
was at first supposed, when Madame vi
, | liyier went to the Tuileries dressed
| toilette de premiere communion, tina
{ | she was suffering from sore throat, bu
/ | itwould appear that the new Prime Minis
| ter wished his wife to pay the price o
| ladv-like manners and an interesting fac,
, | in making her way at court, and to be in
deDendent of the assistance of Mr.. Worth
5 | A bitter war is now waging between thu
J | eccentric diamond costumes OF the lat
/ | imperialistic and the exaggerated sim
t plicity of the present constitutional en-
pire. The rich Jewesses and the Amer
! can and Russian women, however, sid
f with the old regime, and at the late bali
the Tuileries they came out in strong fore
t with millions worth of jewelry on thei
f persons. And American ladies were espe
4 cially distinguished by the loudness an
e costliness of their toilettes.