Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-08
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN,

George Sand is sixty-six; but she writes
like sixty.
A female barser runs the best patron
lied barber shop in Detroit.
Monogram carriers are growing in favor
among fashionable young ladies.
Of all the school teachers in the United
States, two-thirds are women.
Louisa Ale tt and her sister May will
dispense with male escort during their
European tour.
The young ladies of Council Bluffs, to
the number of thirty, want to join one OF
the fire companies.
The Empress Eugene has forty-three
female attendants, among them are two
mistresses of ceremonies, and twelve
dies of honor.
In Paris a female is reading peoples
fortunes by tle lines on their feet. Verify
her lines have not fallen in pleasant
places:
A Boston lady has published column
in fine type, to prove that the first duty
! of woman is-beauty.
Buffalo has a ghost, a first wife, who
comes and tueks up her children every
night. The second wife is not very
cordial to her.
A correspondent of the ReU0fut!o"
has discovered that there will be great
rush of women toward Wyoming this
spring and summer
Some of the Yankee women take their
knitting to church. They probably be-
come as much interested in their own
warn as in the minister's.
A Wisconsin lover caught his bride
carrying in Shack log" that he himself
could not lift, and he concluded not tC
marry in that family.
A shoddy young lady surprised her
t mother, on returning from dance, BY
? saying that she enjoyed the "hugglng, Sc
, to music, most bullyly."
Mrs. Alherti, of Kentucky, has by he
/ own efforts, established twenty two Sab
hath schools for the poor and destitut
people living among the mountains o
: that State.
!. A Philadelphia lady, now residing
l. Paris, adyertises that She Will hold herse
/ in readiness to accompany American ladit
:, visiting that city on their shopping e.
v eufsions. =,
n
ID life of a woman--One, when she WOnue
J. whom she will have, and the other, who
she wonders who will have her.
In Winterset, Iowa, they have adoptt
W the nIan of having women make address
;99 ~ the Sabbath-schOols, believing tn
81 r,tbcrs and sisters know best how
of interest chiidIen.
n The ladies of New Orleans have l
f. solved to form an association for the pr
IT. pose of purchasing the picture known
as t'Heroes of Charlottesville, IN oroer
rs, present it 10 Gen. Lee.
he Miss Laura c. RCdden (''Howard Giy
lso don'0 is only twenty-five years old, a
si. is very handsome; but she is deaf, and
Or most mute. Snn se,donl attelepts et
ID. yersation, except aith intimate friends
Nin,on, the prima donna, commenc
her music Il career by singing IN av,
rg triIoouists booth at q francs day.
or- Gently she received 1000 guiueas
tho SINGING an hour or so at the entertalnm
the of Russian noble.
Md Empress Eugene smokes fourteen CT
ar rettes every day; and as she is the mo
tho of female fashion, we expect I" ma
tile ladies of America following her ''ang
, at example" in smoking as in other equ
but ridiculous things.
her The charming Duchcsso OF Parma, ii
the of the Coxnt de Chamford, is the III
+ of recipient of the holy golden rose, WI
the Rome blesses annually and pres
during Lent to one of the antedllu'
the princesses of the bourbon ulRe.