The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-06-06
Gueniag State Salirmal.
TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1871.
Feminine Fancies.

Feminine Fancies.
The bridal tide is setting strongly to
Saratoga. Twenty-three newly fedged
couples dined at the table the other day.
Seven alleged widows are said to claim
the estate Of the Earl of Aberdeen, who
some time ago was drowned while serving
as mate on an American vessel.
The Empress Of Prussia has given S 900
to the society started in Berlin for the pur-
pose of devising original German fashions.
A st. Louis lady not only brings suit
for breach of promise against her faithless
swain, but also includes his father, whose
objections broke off the match.
A pretty pocketbook has been patented
for ladies'. 1t can "neither be lost or
stolen,' as 1t is attached by an ingenious
continuance to the palm of the hand.
An Arkansas woman named Emily
Sarah Lord is reported to have had nine
husbands in ten years. Two died with
suspicious suddenness, and three were d.
vorced. What became of the rest is not
stated.
A woman named Keyderling, of Fulton
vile, kindled fire by means of kerosene,
the other day, with the usual result. Her
entire person was burned in horrible
manner, and she died in about two hours
/. afterwards.
The Iowa penitentiary at present con-
tains $50 inmates, and not woman
among them An irrepressble bachelor
suggests that this don't argue anything 10
favor of woman's superior virtues--it only
shows that they are more cunning, and
avoid detection in their misdemeanors.
A lady named Mrs. Pope, of Audrain
county, Mo-, had her clothes burned off
her in the absence of her husband, aud on
his return was found dead, having been
literally roasted alive. She was subject to
fits and an habitual smoker 1t is supposed
she fell in fit with her pipe in her mouth,
and that the embers from the pipe set fire
to her clothing.
Mrs. Emily Shaw Forman, of Lynn,
Mass, has taken the lecture field for the
coming winter, under the auspices of the
American Lyceum Bureau. The subjects
of her lectures are Gan Hour with Tom
Hood" 'The Humorous Poetry of Amer
lea" and 'Bret Harte," with illustrations
from his sketches and dialect poems.
A reasonable amount Of chastisement of
ones wife seems to be considered the pro-
per thing In Boston. In recent case be
fore municipal court in that city, the
evidence showed that because the wife re-
fused to go up stairs for her children, who
were crying, the husband disciplined her
in the manner frequently adopted by
mothers in correcting their offspring, using
the fiat of his hand in the operation and
upon her continuing to disobey him he re-
peated the dose. But the husband was
discharged.
At the recent feminine exposition at
Florence, Italy, the visitors were greatly
interested in the magnificent lace called
"Puleto di Venezia" Venetian point, of
which the stitch has been lost since the
thirteenth century, and which humble
work woman, Madame Audri Bersani, by
dint of courage and patience, has succeeded
in recovering. The Minister of Commerce
has accorded her the "brevet d'invention."
and the exclusive right of working 10 her
discovery for fifteen years
Miss Barbara Cassell, of Virginia, has
just recovered $4,000 damages for breach
of promise of marriage from Randall
Waddell. A correspondent writes that
the address of the young and rapidly
rising counsel for the fair plaintiff was
characterized by the most striking argu-
mepts, the finest sense of deicacy, the
widest range of thought, the purest prin-
ciples Of morality and social life, an ire
sisti BILE force OF statement, and an oratory
as brilliant as was ever listened to in the
Wythe courthouse.
Grace Greenwood made speech entire
ly out of the usual order at woman's
suffrage convention In Boston, on Monday
evening" She said she would limit the
suffrage to three classes of women, and
include, first, unmarried women having
property to be taxed second, married
women, and third, such others as may de-
sire the ballot. She recommended a
property qualification, and thought vot-
ing woman should be required to have a
watch regularly wound up and kept to
time, clothes wringer and sewing ma
chine. AS an intelligence qualification,
she suggested that woman should be able
to add up her miliner's bill and verify its
correctness, to cut a pudding, to put on a
button, and, in an emergency, to keep q
boarding-house and support herself and
her husband respectfully.
At Leavenworth, Kansas, in a recent
law suit brought by lawyer against a
lady to recover fee, the lady defended hel
own case. The plaintiff sued for $50
which, he alleged, was due him for services
as attorney, and the defendant caimee
that she had settled with him in full, anC
had not asked legal advice since the settle
ment on the 10th of May, 1870. On tn
part of the plaintiff three witnesses wer'
examined, but the defence called no wit
nesses, the lady simply making state
ment for herself. She said that the jury
men looked as though they were homes
men, and she believed they were gentle
men. She demanded nothing but RICH
and justice, and expressed the belief ths
the jury would deal fairly with her. Th
jury, after consultation of five MINUTES
returned with decision in favor OF th
defendant, and presented the lady with
rose.