Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-03-12

GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.
A social glass to which ladies are adj
dicted-The mirror.
When is the most suitable time to gel
marriedG April l.
Women are employed in seyenty-foui
industrial pursuits in Boston.
Boston club women talk on Greek phi
losophy and the Hindoo religion.
The Empress of Austria has the pretti-
est royal ankle in Europe.
The ladies don't object TO tight
squeeze, if given by a corset or nice
pair of kids.
Ten women and nine men form the
strength Of the female suffrage party in
Florida
The champion corn-sheller of Illinois
is woman, who shelled 100 bushels in
fifteen hours.
A young lady in Chicago made bet of
a kiss, the other day, but the bet was de-
clared null because she didn't put up the
stakes.
The candidate of the New York hide
| pendent for next Governor of New York
is Susan B. Anthony
A young man in the city, who is en-
gagged to Miss Kate, alleges, so angelic
is she, that she nearly suffo-Kates him
with her beauty.
California papers complain that the
| feminine element is getting to be disagree
ably prominent in the public affairs of
the State.
The experiment of placing ladies at the
head of the Indianapolis public schools
works so well that but one male principal
is now employed. Ea
Over thirty Nantucket bellies left the
island during 1869, to grace the homes,
as wives on the main. So the attractions
of the Nantucket girls are actually de-
populating the .own.
Miss Emma G. Shaw, of Providence,
Rhode Island, has been added to the fac
ulty of the Westfield normal school as
teacher of the classical department
Miss Dickinson denies the charge that
she is man-hater, but declines to be re-
garded as plaything that smells sweet
like flower, or sounds sweetly like
flute
A Catholic lady is pread to say that not
single female of her church is to be
found miqed up with the woman suffrage
business, nor in the harems of Brigham
Young.
The statement is made that during one
of Prince Arthur's receptions in Washing
ton a well-known matron went among the
girls exclaiming: ''Blush littlei blush a
little it will look more English !"
A Methodist minister in Vermont has
forbid any one to play base viol in his
church. He says, however serious his
thoughts may be, the moment he hears
fiddle he goes to thinking how he used to
dance.
Mrs. Gen. Gaines is endeavoring to end
her claim troubles in New Orleans,
through the State Legislature. A bill has
been introduced putting the question of
approving a compromise to popular
vote.
Mrs. B. Morris, the female occupant
of the judicial bench in Wyoming, is
described as married; about sixty years
of age; more fat than fair, and believer
in Spiritualism and different organiza-
ton of our social as well as our political
systems.
The catalogue of the philadelphia
School of Design for Women, shows that
seventy-two young women enjoyed its
advantages, from January, 1869, TO Feb
fO,1r
men attending there as students at this
time.
The first piano has just arrived in
Japan, and in the absence of professional
teachers, Lady Parks, the wife of Sir
Harry Parks, the British Minister near
the Imperial Court of japan, instructs
the wife of the Mikado how TO discourse
sweet music.
Mrs. Reede says: ''The imam with the
moustache' only needs business wife
who has capacity enough to comprehend
the cost of his wines, cigars and cards,
and tact enough to earn or save from her
allowance for daily family expenses
enough to meet that demand"
A lady correspondent states that one
petition, if no more, has gone up,
''winged with fire." to the assembled
statesmen, philanthropists and patriots of
Maine, in favor of the emancipation of
/ women. That document was evidently
couched in ''wOrds that bum"
Since the story has been told of how
| Judge Breckenridge married gill whom
he saw Jump over rail fence with pail
/ on her head, the girls in Orange county,
| New York, are said to spend their time in
watching the road; and whenever they
see carriage approaching with man in
it, they seize their pals and go for
| fence.
| A girl at Chester, VT, has died from
tight lacing. These cOrsets should be
done away with, and if the girls can't
live without being squeezed, we suppose
men can be found who would sacrifice
themselves. As old as we are, we had
rather devote three hours a day, without
a cent of pay, as breyet corset, than see
these girls die off in that manner. Office
hours almost any time.
The English Society for Obtaining
WOman's Suffrage are on the alert for the
coming session of Parliament, and intend
10 try once more to shame the coarser sex
into assent They have certainly made a
shop, skip and jump" in their success as
to the municipal representation. Every
rate-payer, woman or man, can now vote
in the election for local officers.
A nice young man in New Orleans ran
away with and married the daughter of a
highly respectable lady, and came back
for the lady's blessing, which was freely
given, together with the information that
the girl was not her daughter, but quad
room servant girl. He said it was swim
| die, and went away so rapidly that they
couldn't see his back for the dust.
The Speaker of the Ohio House recently
| presented to that body a communication
from citizens of GAINESVILLE, asking tina
females in that State be allowed all thu
rights and privileges, including the ballot
now granted to male citizens; that females
| shall be liable to military and road duty
and that, if women shall refuse to provid
! | for the support of their husbands ant
families, it shall be considered sufficien
: ground for divorce, the husband to
e allowed alimony out of the estate of hi
Y wife.
WOMEN VOTING FOX TOWN Off
GERS.
HYDE PARK, Mass, March IA move
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