Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-04-07
The Fair Sex.

ing the mitten nowadays-they don't
learn to knit.
Mrs Z. TuPPER WILKES, the Minnesota
clergywoman, has a salary of $1,000 a
year, and is to get more.
THERE is every reason to believe that
some of the prevailing blonde chignons
are made of light fantastic tow.
YOUNG LADIES who wish to always act
on the square toward their lovers should
never dance aught else than square
dances.
New YORK ladies, not contented with
banishing wines from parties, are ma X
ing war on the gentlemen smoking in
their dressing-rooms.
A YOUNG woman of Providence, r. l.,
is said to be one of the best blacksmiths
in the city. She works side by side with
her father, in his shop.
THE hearts of the fair sex are, as gen
eral thing, so adamant that diamonds
must be used if one wishes to cut his
way into the female heart.
The Revolution says: "All we ask OF
women is to consider two things in dress
which they are inexcusably apt to over
look-health and beauty"
A GENTLEMAN took lady out to ride,
lately, and came home with false curl
attached to the button on the side OF
his cap. He wonders how it could of
got there.
SOME ONE asked Miss Bremen; What
i
come to see you p +" wish that l was
handsomer,' was the honest and woman
like reply of the charming Swedish nov
elist.
A LA CROSSE merchant is trying to ex-
plain to his wife why somebody persists
in hanging baskets filled with babies on
his door knob. Between explaing and
gathering them in, he has a lively time
of it.
A LARGE number of most beautiful la
dies in Massachusetts, are busy about
the French Fair, to be held in Boston,
in April. Sharp-nosed women with
"views" are rigidly excluded from the
management.
~ BELIEVE that mine will be the fate
of Abel" said q devoted wife to her
husband, one day. How so ?" asked
her husband. "Because Abel was kill
ed with club, and your club will kill
me if you continue to visit it every
night"
SOMEBODY has discovered in this coun-
try tombstone erected to the memory
of good step-mother." It is several
hundred years old, and is to be placed
among the relics of antiquity. Mem!
No tombstone to good stepJdther has
yet been discovered.
A FLORENCE paper says of the Ameri-
can ladies there: "These ladies are so
handsome, these girls so lovely, that if
one but sees them, or, still worse, If one
enters into conversation with them, one
cannot help falling in love at once with
the New World"
AN early settler of Indiana planted
two trees in front of his cabin, saying to
his wife that they should be the trees of
their lives. In 1884, the one named
after the man fell, and he survived it
but little Recently the woman's tree
died, and she lived but day or two
longer.
IT is the qucerest thing in the world
what Charlotte Smith, of Rockport,
Mass, can want of her runaway hus-
band, whom she describes in an adver-
tisement as "a little man, badly Grip
pied in one leg, one leg shorter than the
other, false teeth and bald head"
A WIFE in San Francisco lately put
petition for divorce in the court, op the
ground that her husband was /" con-
founded fool" The Judge, who was an
old bachelor, would not admit the plea,
because, he said, every man who gets
married would be liable to the same inn
putation.
A MICHIGAN lady, in the course of a
long and sensible letter on the subject
of woman's rights, says: When wives
assume the headship God gave to hus-
bands, they break a divine command,
and the punishment follows. They
lose, to a great extent, their gentle, wo-
manly graces, and grow bold and mas
culine and, in the same proportion,
husbands become feminine and timid
and of all pitiable objects on the face of
the earth, hen-pecked husband is the
worst and in short time these wives
become dissatisfied with their sheepish'
looking husbands, and many of them
seek for more manly companions, and
life of sin and terrible retribution is the
result