The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1871-01-12
About Women.


Why should young ladies wear
stays? Because it is so horrid to see
Il girl eight"
The cheapest thing to be had for the
money--The Revolution subscription
price only 80.
1t has been decided by law out in
Cincinnati that q wife has q vested
right in her husbands society.
The Universalists Of Iowa City
Miss Augusta Chaplin, pastor-wiil
build next season a $4,000 church.
The Chicago Republican, is out
against the custom of a general kissing
Of Il bride at a wedding, and calls it a
"rclic of barbarism."
There are now women's journals in
England, France, Germany, Portugal,
Italy, Holland, in several States Of
America, and India.
A jury has fixed the price of "kissing
ladies' for fun at $50. They decide
that it is apt to raise hopes Of mar
riagc, and make a breach Of promise
good.
The Mormon girls have decla red, by
resolutions, that they discard dragging
dresses as unclcan, and panieis and
Grecian bends as d~isgracing tho hui
man form.
A lettcr.writer, describing q recent
ball, says the feature which made the
deepest impression on him was the
unusual number Of very plump wo-
men foaming over the tops Q! dresses.
A lady in Jasper county, Ga, Gagged
seventy five, wants q divorce from her
husband Jagged seventy. eight because
he "spends half his time running about
with the girls
"A Miss Isabella Smith, who claimed
that she had been injured in her feel
ings to the extent Of 100000, through
the failure Of one John L. Campbell to
marry her, was awarded a sum of
$4,000 last week by a jury at Waiver
~, Iowa. 1t is Our opinion that
Miss Isabella has lost $4,000 worth
of sclf-respect
We hear from Mrs. Laura DeForcc
Gordon, one of the most stirring amt
active Of all our pioneer lady lecturers,
in the West, that she is prepared to
lecture all .hc way from Omaha to
New York City. The California pa
pers give Mrs. Gordon high praise,
both for good reasoning and fine elocu,
tionary powers.
A lady writer speaks truthfulIy
when she says: 80 woman her shame
is a living death to man, a sport tina,
brings him little remorsc, no brand, no
loss Of reputation" May women real
ize this truth more and more deeply,
until with one voice they demand
equal justice and equal punishments
for men and women.
"Doctor,' said a lady, 81 want you
to prescribe for me-" There is moth.
ing the matter, madam said the doc
tor, after feeling her pulse. "You on
y need rest" snow, doctor, just look
at my tongue she persisted, "What
does that need p THAT needs rest,
too" replied the doctor.
There is a young and handsome Ia
dy in California who is an engineer,
and runs a stationary engine to supply
the water. tank Of the place where she
lives. She can rock the cradle, handle
the lever of her engine, or bring down
a flying antelope with a shot from her
needlc-gun, all equally well.
Mrs. Ceilings is pushing forward her
contract on the Connecticut Valley
road, just below Haddam, with great
energy. The contract was taken BY
her father. but since his death she as
sumed it. She superintends the work
personally, pays OFT her men, and
shows true business capabilities.
We hear of a young lady about to be
married, who promises to love, honor,
and he gay, instead of obey. II to be
gay means to be cheerful, happy, and
contented, she is promising something
far more likely to secure a true union
than any vain pledge made without the
consent of reason or conscience.
A child, while walking through an
art gallery with her mother, was at.
by a statue Of Minerva. "Who
is that 2" said she. My child, that is
Minerva, the goddess of wisdom"
didn't they make her husband,
because she had none, my 6
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