Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-02-24
Women.

FEMALE GATHERINGS-LauleS' fulneS.
A woMANs RING-A sewing circle
WAX DOLLS never indulge in laughter.
They belong to a cereous family.
Cora L. V. TAPPAN will pass the win
ter in Washington. She has volume
of new poems in press.
A ST. JOSEPH wife shot her husband,
the other night, for deceiving her. He
promised to buy her muil, and didn't.
A NASHVILLE lady, who had been sued
by her husband for divorce, went into
spasr1s when the Sheriff read the pro
cess to her. aTat' '-'..-
A YOUNG LADY has died of home, sick
ness in a Virginia boarding school
Why didn't they try homeopathic
treatment?
IF HER "poem " tells the truth, a Buf-
falo woman has buried her love " on the
stormy strand of the deep, dark ocean
of mad despair"
The WIFE of Il. Buchanan Read, the
poet-painter, is said to bear striking
facial resemblance to the worldre-
nowned Venus de Medici in the Patti
Palace.
A PETITION, asking for an act of incor-
poration. as "The Women Appren-
tice Association" will soon be put in
circulation by Miss Jennie Collins, OF
Boston.
"WHAT's the difference between the
North Pole and South Pole? " Why,
all the difference in the world" replied
lady, unwittingly; and that's the an
swer.
Mrs. LINCOLN was in London at last
accounts, where her youngest son was
at school. 1t is said she will soon go to
Rome. to spend few months with her
friend, the wife of Bishop Simpson.
A YOUNG lady in Savannah, while des-
cending flight of stairs recently, struck
the heel of her gaiter against the stair
carpeting, and was thrown a distance OF
| ten or twelve feet, dislocating her collar
bone, breaking the wrist and inflicting
other serious injury.
AN unreasonable tyrant has lately
been arrested at Rochester, on com
plaint of his wife, for not supporting
her. His reply to the charge was that
he was willing to support his wife, but
was not willing to support the nelghbor-
hood and do his own cooking, washing
and ironing.
"LET us 90 to Mr.. Simpsons wedding,
my DEAR" said newly married wife to
her husband. ooh, no. Let us stay at
home it will be dreadful bore" "But,
nv dear, you must remember Mr.. Slmp-
son attended your wedding" $50 he
did" (grimly); ." had forgotten that"
(revengefully). ~ shall be there"
A LADY residing in German city,
which is heavily taxed for both men and
money by the war, writes to her friends
that the cost of living is so much
increased in consequence that she has
to pay IS cents for pair of white kid
gloves "with two buttons" that % new
silk bonnet costs nearly dollar in gold,
q cab for two persons to the opera and
back, 81 cents, and washing is charged
for at the extravagant rate OF II cents
dozen pieces.
THERE seems to be great uncertainty
as to the future stand taken by Congress
upon the question of woman's suffrage.
OF the fifty-fve members of the House
voting in favor of permitting females to
vote in the District of Columbia, about
two-thirds 90 out of Office on the 4th of
March, necessitating large accesslons
from the new members to keep up the
strength of the women reformers in the
Forty-second Congress. The mem bers
who favored suffrage are being lionized
or deared" by the apostles Of the new
movement, while the opponents are
anathematized.