The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-27
FEMININE FANCIES.

FEMININE FANCIES.
Miss Alice Cooley, of Natchez, is en-
gagged on life-sized bust of the late Gene
raj Lee.
Nearly one-half of the depositors of the
Boston Saving Banks are girls and women.
The women of Massachusetts, pay taxes
on s132 900, 900, nearly one-tenth OF all the
taxable property of the State.
1t is said Charles Reade, in his last novel,
"a Terrible Temptation" took Ada
Isaacs Menken as model for his heroine.
We doubt it.
The women of England have eight hum
dred thousand majority over the men. Is
it right and just that a minority should
rule?
Mrs. Emma Bartlett runs large saddle
and harness business in Chicago. A we'll
known book SAYS. ga bride for the ass, a
bit for the horse ?o what for our unruly
husband :?
AT a trial recently held in Vienna, it was
proved that one DR.. Hetzfeld was an illegti-
mate son of Napoleon |. and governess,
whose acquaintance he made at Schonbrun
in the year 1909.
Mrs. Francis Willard, widely known as
writer, has been elected President of the
Evanston college for young ladies'. The
first lady on record as President.
Isit true that Hiram Powers, the "Great"
American sculptor, who attacked little
Winnie Ream so savagely about her "Lin-
coln," has never even seen it?
A lady in Dorchester, N. H., during the
illness of her husband this spring, tapped
their sugar orchard. cut her wood, gathered
the sap and made about four hundred
pounds Of sugar, and then is not fit to
vote.
Louise Colet, one of the most distin-
guished female authors of France, died a
few weeks ago at Nice, where she had de-
livered a course of lectures, in her sixty
second year.
The following birth notice appears in a
county paper in Ohio: Son Monday morn
ing, April 81, to w. B. and Jennie G..
Heam, a daughter. Shall vote when she is
twenty-one."
The French style of betting is quite
novel. If the lady loses she gives the gen.
tleman what she chooses if the gentleman
loses, he gives her whatever she asks for.
Louisa M. Alcott has returned from Eu-
rope. While in England, Jean ngelow,
the poetess, as well known in this country
as in England, gave her a complimentary
evening entertainment, at which all the avail
able American celebrities then in London
were present.
The Bishop Of Peterborough, England,
warmly supported the giving to women
every facility for improving their mental
faculties. He recently ridiculcd, in happy
terms, the men who talk of "women's
sphere" and who say "women should stay
at home and mind the babics," declaring
that it was generally rotund gentlemen,
past middle age, with red faces, who dis
cussed the question in this way over wine
and walnuts after dinner!
How TO QUARREL WITH A WIFE
Wait until she is at her toilet preparatory
to going out. She will be sure to ask YOU
if her bonnet is straight. Remark that the
lives of nine-tenths of the women are
passed in thinking whether their bonnets
are straight, and wind up with the remark
common sense about her. Wife will ask
you who that was. You, with a sigh.
reply: "Ah! never mind" Wife will ask
obstractedlv "ahi wbv ; n,L %, 9u ny ny,
cl;max & reacbod bv this time and \ roa,'.
ar row Is snre 70 foIIow '''' anu :" ''s'-
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"A country editor mas been at the trouble
70 MAKE the following summary The
girls OF the principal cues IN this country
are noted as foiiows: Baltimore, the hand
soonest; Boston, the most intellectual /;
new YORK, the eayest and most expensive
IN dress asnmSton,, the most airy and
supericlai rhliaaeiphla, the most refined
ana lady-hke lineage, the fastest and most
dissipated Toledo, the biggest feet; St.
LOUIS, the most elegant; New Orleans, the
most Travelled; Cincinnati, the greatest
l,irts Louisville, the proudest; Detroit,
the widest Cleveland, the most graceful