Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-12-01
FEMINITEMS.

Born to blush unseen-The female
Fifteentha
Where women can obtain their rights
at the shoemakers. Their "lefts, too.
It begins to look ominous when the
woman of the period wants her club.
She ought to be satisfied with her broom
stick.
The daughters of President Grant and
Governor Hoffman are expected to make
their debut into society this winter. t
The ladies of Waukon, Iowa, have Or
ganized hook and ladder company. A
ladies' hose company VIII be next in
order.
The project of admitting women to
the Medical University at Edinburgh has
received the express disapproval of the
Queen. lttfl
-One of the girl students of the Michi-
gan University is fifty-two. Among the
others are three of tender years and sur
passing beauty.
A wicked little lady in New York has
collection of eighty-four vanquished
and Tilted masculines, which she calls
her mobile army of martyrs"
An Illinois matron being asked by an
advocate of woman's rights il she be-
lieved in female oratory, replied, :" In
deed do, an ! an my gals can use our
tongues right smart, you bet.
Carrie" of the Boston Traveller,
says if women were as particular in
choosing of a husband, as men are in the
choosing ofa virtuous wife, moral refor-
nation would be soon begun.
Mollie W. LeMaich is another Of those
stout Iowa women who have improved a
farm under the homestead law, She has
inducements now to offer good practi-
cal husbandman.
A line in one of Moores songs reads
thus;
Our couch shall be roses bespansled with
dew;"
To which a sensible girl replied;
'"TwSSId %SSId giyS dSS. ne r. rheumatic and so it
Miss Pauline Fletcher at the age of
fourteen, an adept in all the mysteries
of algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and
so forth, is the champion mathematician
of Indiana.
Tea rose, apricot, Nile green, and
china pink are the fayorite colors in
light evening silks. Pearl and hesh-col-
ored gloves, six-buttoned, are the thing
for full dress, white being reserved for
brides. .I.
Mr.. Joe Elder, of Scott county, Indi-
ana, courted Matte Reagan with good
deal of yigor for six years, and then
married her sister, whereupon Matte
very properly warmed Joseph with a
green cowhide. fv
Miss Fanny Rutherford, of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is city physician.
When the Rutherford goes feeling a
young fellows pulse, and finds it beat
ing ike all possessed, how does she
know whether it is fever or Fanny
A young Englishwoman is maturing a
plan for covering all London with net
work of visits, the object of which is 70
ascertain and report weekly the oondi-
ton of every INDECENT person, and pro-
vide relief so far as it is found possible.
Emilia Marryatt Norris, daughter OF
Captain Marryatt, has published a juve,
nile story entitled "Adrift on the Sea;
and a daughter of Thomas Hood-Mrs.
Frances freezing Brodnip, has now in
press THE Whispers of Shelli or, Sto-
ries Of the Sea" "
Mr.. Agassiz says that in certain An
azonian tribes, on the day Of his mar
riage, while tho wedding festivities are
going on, the bridegroom hands are
tied up in paper bag filed With hre-
ants. If he bears this torture smllingiy
and unmovcd, he is considered tit for the
trials Of matrimony.
Anna Dickinson, though gifted, is 9
woman. At Boston, recently, she came
promptly to the front of the platform anc
surveyed the audience, without speaking
for several minutes, although chair haC
been provided. She did not sit down
and one Of the managers asked why
do you suppose, said the eloquen
little woman, that ] was going 10 81
down in my new dressY
Maine sends bear story, which must
be given verbatim. Il runs thus: Mr.
Samuel Kimball, Of Patten, finding 81
old pine loz in the woods, cut into { I
see IL it were soand. He found that !
was not sound, but he heard 2 sound in
side. aud had hardly time 20 get 70 thi
end Of the log before he saw an old sh'
hear iusf coming ont. He gave her I
blow on che head with his AK, and wa
about pulling her oct when he was sur
prised TO see two large cubs g1zt back o.
their mother Hepulled the old one o1i
and was dispatching the cubs, when oul
Jumped another old bear, which, befor'
Mr.. Kimball could 6nish the csbs, mad'
good his escape