Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-14
ABOUT WOMEN.

The Queen of Madagascar wants to
marry an American clergyman.
The smallest shoes sold in the. Philadel-
phia market are purchased for the Ha-
Yana women
The Cleveland Herald thinks the mar
rage service should be changed to read;
Who dares take this woman?
The friends of the widow of StOnewsll
Jackson Indignantly deny the story that
she is o to marry a Boston millionaire.
There has been a Golden Age, the Age
of Brass, the Iron Age, and several other
ages, but now contemplate the Age OF
Woman.
The Princess Mathilde's u is said TO
show more exquisite taste in furniture,
decoration, and works Of art than any
other in Paris.
Elizabeth Field, a New York girl, in
Rome, has married the Prince de Trig-
giano BrandacciO, whose fortune is esti-
mated at twenty-five cents.
Mrs. Archange Thebeau died at Detroit
on the morning OF the Sd inst, st the age
OF 100 years and n day, she having been
born on the ID of April, l77O.
One Of the most celebrated c~ItisiRiers Of
Paris was found, the other day, to be 8
woman He, or rather she, had worn
male clothes for many years.
AChicago lady has written a long let
ter, eloquently advocating the use of
face-powder. She saws she would as soon
think of being ashamed of her tooth
brush as Of her pOwder-box.
At the Empress recent ball was pres
ent the Countess of Begorien, who, less
than thirty years of age, has perfectly
white hair, made so by watching a single
night by the bedside of her dying child.
The ladies Of the Brooklyn WOmsn's
Club have resolved hencefOrth to wear
shirts. regular shirts, with frizzled fronts
and hpss. So we are told by lone who
knows " and, for all we know, wears. All
right.
A young lady being present with her
mother at a ball in Denver, Colorado,
upon being asked TO dance, replied: 30,
biazes, boys, ! can't dance, but there's
Nam, Jest as good a dancist as ever shuck
8 foot"
Parepa intends, when her singing days
are over, to devote her leisure time to
the translation into Italian of the
novels of Charlotte BrOnte and other Eng
fish writers. She Is an accomplished lin
guist.
A new parody and poem by Figaro
commences thus:
'woman, spare that tea!
Touch not a single drop:
In youth il tempted thee,
But now, for Heavens sake, stopr'
There is a prospect that the next op-
cratic star in New York viii be the cele-
brated amateur, Mrs. Charles MOultOn,
who has been so much admired in Paris,
and whose appearance at the Dramatic
Concert b season created so much
interest in fashionable circles.
Miss Amanda Vansel, who resides near
WaverIy, Illinois, is the owner of one
thousand acres of land, six hundred of
which is in cultivation. Miss Yansel is
reputed to be worth one hundred thou
sand dollars, all of which has been earned
by herself.
The Queen Of England keeps a little
private school of her own. She does not
teach the a b abs herself, but employs a
deputy TO do it. Sixty children of per
sons employed about her royal household
attend it, and il they are good and get
their lessons well they have their dinner
given them every day.
A celebrated writer says. "No woman
can be a lady who can wound or mortify
No matter how beautiful, how
refined, or how cultivated she may be, she
is, in reality, coarse, and the innate vul-
garity of her nature maLifests itself here.
Uniformly kind, courteous and polite
treatment Of all persons is one mark of a
woman