Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-12
FOR The LADIES.
WHY SLEEP WAS INVENTED.

/ heh man was made, II puzzled Satan
How Adams soul anu body he could win
so he Invented woman; and with such
A soul endoW'd her, she was sure to sin
And once get Adam Underneath her thraII-
SATAN was certain both OF them would fail
/ But then another difficulty rose
How TO get Adam 10 accept his bride!
] This he O'ercame, as everybody knows.
! " sanding him % sleep then by his side
I REaeed Eve-lor Satan knew this much Of
life, -
That, Wide awake he'd never take a wife -
Miss Julia Cohinbury is Wiscon-
sin Commissioner Of Deeds.
Bluebeard's trade was evidently
that Of a belize hanger.
A correspondent has discovered
that Tennys0n has = deep bass voice.
One OF DOuizetti's daughters teaches
school and the other keeps a coffee
house.
8. Panic in church," said Mr..
/ Scripps, reading that announcement
on a newspaper bill. "Um. Glad it
isn't in the city"
At MentOne, in the Mediterranean,
no invidious social distinctions exist
among the poor. Men and women
alike dig the ground for thirty cents a
day.
In st. Louis, the Female Guardian
Society, organized in 1866, has already
given shelter to one hundred women,
all OF whom have found good homes.
Miss Dix, who has been prosecuting
her phllanthropic mission among hos
pitals, jails and prisons for over thirty
years, is nov at I0rk in Tennessee.
WOmen's Ri ITS Conventions are
| becoming almON an every day occur
renee. They don't amount to much,
except, as the Cinnamon say, cheap
talkee.H
The NicerOy of Egypt's latest fOible
is married American beauty, whose
influence over his Highness has been
the theme of Cairo gossip for several
weeks past.
The ladies Ofthe Universalist church
at Clinton, Iowa, have hit on a new
dodge for raising funds. They have
'1Ove-making and mate-chOosing
meeting" at twenty-five cents per
head.
The working women of Paris re-
ceiYe very small compensation for
their labor. Thus, in 1860, there were
Il ,203 females who earned from ten to
25 cents a day IS, ,3I0 who earned from
80 to 50 cents day, and only 500 who
earned from so 20 81 40 day.
Nettie Chase, daughter of Chief
Justice Chase, is about to publish a
book of the nursery songs of several
lands, each one with an original illus
tratiOn Of her own.
DR.. Elizabeth Blackwell has COM
menced the practice of medicine in
London. She is the daughter of a
Bristol sugar refner, who euigrated
to the United States in 1892.
A wife in Cincinnati has actually
left her husband and applied for
divorce because ne neglected to " kiss
her good-by." A terrible warning to
husbands of hurried business habits.
An incident in railway car: Mon
ster-''pm sitting on your DGHaier,
ma'am." Afiable young lady-"Oh, !
never mind, sir, it's of no consequence:
you can't hurt it." MOnster-HNO,
ma'am, it's not that; but the con-
founded thing hurts me-"
a New York correspondent. makes
fun of the people who use the "book
of the play'' when they go to see
Booths 'sHamlet." Gas soon as they
are seated" ne says, "they straight
way find the piece and bury their
noses in the book, and follow every
word of the piece, delightedly ex-
claiming one to another, there, he
left out that wOrd;' or, as l heard one
intelligent creature say, after Ham
let passed from the scene, he didn't
Exit, did he? and it's sdownshere
- 10 say in the last word.
After any kind Of exercise, do not
stand a moment at street corner, for
anybody or anything; nor at an open
door or window. When you have
been exercising in any way whatever,
winter or summer, go home at once,
or to some sheltered place; and, how
ever warm the room may seem to be,
do not at once pull off your hat and |
cloak, bat wait awhile-some five min
utes or more, and lay aside one thing
at time; thus acting, a cold is inn
possible. Notice moment. When you |
return from brisk walk and you |
enter a warm room, raise your hat |
and your forehead will be moist; let |
the hat remain few moments and |
feel the forehead again, and it viii be |
dry, showing that the room is actually |
cooler than your body, and that, with
outdoor clothing on, you have really |
cooled off full soon enough. Many of
the severest colds L have ever known
men to take, were the result of sitting
down to warm meal IN cool room !
after a long walk; or being en-
gagged in writing, have let the
fire go out, and their first
admonition of it was that creep
ing chiIliness which is the ordl-
nary forerunner of a severe cold.
Persons have often lost their lives by
writing or reading in room where
there was no fire, although the wealth
er outside was rather comfortable.
Sleeping in rooms long unused has
destroyed the life OF many visitor
and friend. Our splendid parlors and
our nice "spare rooms help to enrich
many a doctor.-HoIt'S Journal Of
Health.