The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-10
LADIES' COLUMN.

Miss Nilsson is expected to play In
the initial game Of the Newport Gro
quet club.
The Louisville Ledger says: "Mrs.
Pickett of Jefferson recently gave
birth to tEiplets-an girls"
It is averred that the needlewomen
OfNew York receive but ten cents a
piece for the making of clusters"
Neat little betting books are now
manufactured for ladies' use. There
is no ''Dr." side.
Mrs. Gaines had an offer of marri-
age lately, although she is over 50.
''MOney no object" Of course.
Two San Francisco girls lately or
dered eighty-five dresses from Berlin.
The ''old man" owns a gold mine.
There is huntress in the Allegha-
MES who crops her hair short, chews
tobacco, and is a dead-shOt with a
rife.
The widow Ofa man who died in
IrontOn, Ohio, of delirium tremens,
has recovered S., eco damages from
the man who furnished the whisky.
a journal certifies. to the existence
Of a young lady who took cut fifty.
seven hairpins from her coiffure, and
yet her hair did not come down.
Prof. Liggett is the title of lady
who occupies the chair in a Topeka
College, where the education is, of
course, Of the hggettimate kind.
Miss Alcott, during her recent visit
in London, was tea-paFtied by Miss
Jean lngelOw, to which divers and
sundry literary celebrities, Yankee
and British, were invited.
An old lady from one of the rural
districts astOnished a clerk in one of
the stores few days ago, by inquir-
ing if he had any "yaller develop
ments, sich as they did up letters in"
It is expected that between two and
three hundred women will attend the
next term Of the Michigan University.
OF the thirty in attendance the last
session not one failed.
1t is now stated that Fred. Grant
has determined to reject the hand of
the Princess Beatrice and accept that
of Miss Cook, daughter of the govern
or OF the Territory of Columbia.
The widow Of the Rev. Thomas
Starr King is married in San Francis
co to her husbands executor, who, In
addition to quiet culture has $780,,
600 cash.
Gail Hamilton affirms ''as the most
painful and unexpected result of nv
own observation that the gTossest
violations of courtesy, mOdesty, deli
cacy, and decency attributable to cor
respondents have been perpetrat ed by
women"
Mrs. Grant has announced, through
the secretary of state and the Ameri-
can consul at Belfast, Ireland, that
she will be pleased to accept the gift
of an Irish spinning wheel rendered
her by the Belfast linen trade COM
mittee.
A lady named Trimby, who died in
Chicago last week, was sent to Roch-
ester for interment. But before she
was inferred, WEile the authorities
were awaiting some technicality, she
came to life, burst the lid Oft the
coffin, and telegraphed to Chicago
that she would be back on the next
train.
Mrs. LivermOre addressed the pupils
of the Prescott school, East Boston,
last Monday, at the annual exhibi-
tion-the first time this honor has
been extended to woman in Mas
sachusetts. This is to be the first
movement in a concerted plan to have
women on the school boards through
out the commonwealth.
What is the meaning of this? NIys-
teriOus announcements reach us that
"the council of the Daughters of the
Forest of the United States of Ameri-
ca will hold a secret session on q GER
tain ridge road in Philadelphia in the
sun-foWer mOOn". Subordinate cOuu-
ellis to the number Of thirty-two are
reported as existing in other states.
Have we female Ku-klux among US?
The tables are about to be turned and
the wOman-WOmen must be prepared
to find the man getting into skirts as
a retaliation for the encrOachments
that women are constantly making
upon the masculine style Of dress.
Down near Mount Pleasant, o., there
may be seen at work in the hayfields
a number of men whose attire consists
Of shirt and skirt, very closely re-
sembling wOman's petticOat. They
anticipate a time when both men and
women will dress IS they please.
The London Court Journal says that
dark hair, so long neglected and de-
spised, Is again in the ascendant. The
blonde is gradually resuming her
place side by side, not above, the bru-
nette. The blonde is now declared to
have maintained her rule so long by
variety of artifice, and can, now that
her cunning devices are known, be
classified as follows: The Gothic
Irish (reddish), the Saxon English
dark yellow, the little ridiculous
blonde, (short curly, golden), the ceph-
alic blonde, (Orange tint, and the
lymphatic blcnde (pale straw COLOR,
Among all these the cephalie orange
golden has always been considered
the most tO be dreaded by men who
seek for peace of mind, calm life,
and happy end.
Here is an extract from a letter
written by an American girl who is
"dOing' the London season:
AS general thing English women
are not handsome, although i have
seen some beautiful ones, They have
large feet, and look coarse to the
American eye, and they cannot talk.
They very seldom say anything Origi-
nal, seem to read very little, and do
very little thinking for themselves.
They do not talk to men at all as we
do. The dOwagers look so old timey.
They wear such old fashioned Jewels.
and such Old-fashiOned, stiff brOcade
silks. They put me in mind Of hens
with their chickens as they sit and
talk to each other, keeping their eyes
all of the time on their daughters, for
there are 30 many German officers
and French refugees in society here
and some Of them such handsome men
that mammas are kept in a state of
perpetual anxiety, fearing some en-
tanglement. About D o'clock in the
evening everybody goes out for adriVe
IN Rotten Row. The sight is a splen-
did one. Then you see all the lash
ionabie part of London, and then the
women, elegantly dressed, lOlling in
their carriages, and attended by their
cavaliers, appear at their best Gem
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