Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-06-02
Items about Women
Small waists are out of the fashion.

oinaIl Naisb are out OF the fashion.
The daughter of Owen Lovejoy has been ap-
pointed Postmistress of Princeton, Ill
Five wives Of an Indian in Kansas have sued
for divorce.
Forty-seven women are editorislly connected
with the New York press.
Out IN China, woman who disputes her hus-
bands authority commits capital offence
Short sleeves are not fashionable in New York
society, just now. Cause-general vaccination.
A ladies' life insurance company is being
formed IL London. One provision is that al
employees are to be women.
The ladies' of the Sultan's household are re-
perted to have read $4,000 worth Of French
novels last years
Gail Hamilton says women DO not talk enough.
| This Is indeed news.
Madame Bonaparte, though nearly 30, is still
credited with the most beautiful hand and arm
in Baltimore.
lady horse thief" has been convicted in
North Carolina. Another step in the woman
movement
A Providence paper speaks of the laiiea ap-
| pesring on the streets " like animated fragments
Of shattered rlinbows.
The Omaha Tribune calls loudly upon the
thirty-iye thousand old maids IN New England
to consult Horace Greeley, and then 60 West ard
buy farms.
Over two hundred women are now working
farms on their own account in the States Of Iowa
and Indiana This is official
While settling a womla's estate at Worcester
the other day, an item Of SO was allowed her
daughter for attending the funeral.
1t is said that Mrs Henry Wood has realized
100000 by the sale Of her sensational stories,
which at first she could not induce any publisher
to look at.
Two young Atantans ran . foot race on Sun
day for the honor of escorting belle to church.
The winner found she had just gons with another
fellow
They had Al anti-chignon party in Adrian.
Mich, at which many gentlemen fell in love for
the first time. No wonder when such deformities
were cast aside.
young girl in Troy, y. Y, has earned
S2,30o in less than four years with her sewing
machine, in stitching 63S ,G53 coilsrs
The women Of Wyoming are CREDITED, or
discreditel, with having elected the handsomest
man in the National House Of Representatives.
Utah furnishes the latest smart woman, who,
to the age Of 50, CLEANED over twenty bushels of
wheat and raisei thirty bushels Of potatoes, aud
dug and carried them into the cellar
A young lady entered library recently and
enouirci of tho librarian If he had .. Rlss-si
Hopes.' ..No. m.'sn. bB. have q bl,sfej
bead.cbe - was tbe lrcoprtsors only
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women would MOI ,r,5r,rt ~ ,,-a.ticsil,
beesuse thew wouId ios;.f that tbsy vere Ia
voung IN vote untiI tbs, o.. to IA - t..e ans,
interest in polities
II seems quite pIo1Ao-s mat women in ".sh-
Iug'oH "ll' s'Cule one p.iu' 'hls session. VIZ.
'ne tquai'y oi tle seAet I'D psy ana losl'i'A ID
AL orAncues o' 'ne o-'I service
Mrs. Harriet Brooks, a prominent leader Of the
Woman Suffrage movement IN Chicago, has pub
lished a pamphlet upon "Ihe Hell;h and Beauty
OF Women. Ii ably discusses the injury of
tight laci0g and Other fashionable f-liies, ami Is
sgreeahly written
Jennie Adams. Of s.. L9uis while on a visi.
to the country recently. thought she wo11i test
her lovers since-ity. and So sent him word that
she had los. her right hand bv getting 10 ia q
feed cutter. The result was a square ob,ck out''
on the psrt Of the heartless swain. ami Jenny
thinks She hss made 4 lucky es-so,
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