The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-07-07
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.
Some ladies use paint as fiddlers do
rosin, to aid them in drawing q beau.
Several prominent Iowa papers have
come out strong fof women suffrage.
Seventy-eight women are now regu-
larly ordained preachers in the United
States.
Mrs. Clara Nash has been admitted
to practice ct the bar at Columbia, N.
H., and has been appointed Justice of
the Peace.
Young ladies should know that q
little cologne rubbed OH the cheek
gives color Immediately.
An Iowa woman has begun her sui
eide by marking the place on her
throat where she intends to cut when
she gets her courage up.
Henpeck-"My love, am happy to
inform you I've insured my life"
Ms. E.-'Then you ought to be
ashamed of such a selfish action. In
sure your 0,rn! Nothing done about
mine, 1 supposed
Three sisters named Hurlbut, who
came into the world simultaneously
are now living together in Litchfield,
Conn.,, aged "a. They have rarely
been separated, and have always en-
joyed excellent health.
A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS contem-
porary says that girl with an income
of three thousand dollars a year or
more, is always an object of interest,
because she has so much principal.
At recent wedding in Warsaw, H.
linois, among the refreshments served
were bottle of wine and a loaf of
cake prepared for the wedding of the
brides mother over twenty years
ago.
They tell of cOlOfed girl who rush.
ed into a colored citizens arms, at Sa-
vannah, exclaiming, "Oh. your are
my long lost brother !" she soon dis
covered her mistake and rushed off in
confused manner, accompanied by
her long lost brothers pocket-b0Ok.
Mrs. Jones, of Bay City, Michigan,
persuaded her husband, with revolt
yer, to hand her ever $50 for new
dress.
The lady who plays the trombone IN
the German lady ochestra, soon 10
visit us, is represented to be the leveli-
est blonde that ever slipped Bavarian
lager.
We saw Vic and Tennie yesterday,
! says the New York Star, in q new rig.
They wore yellow linen everdresses,
and fancy straw hats with wide black
ribbons. They looked neat and ex-
ceedingly stylish-in fact, not to put
too fine point on it, gallus.
An English writer speaks of those
/. amazing American young ladies
whose abundance luggage and bound
less variety of dress eclipse humber
British travellers on the Continent, no
less than their undeniable beauty and
intelligence.
A New York paper furnishes this Gu
rious bit of information. We do not
believe it: "At Salt lake MahOpaC
the ladies spend most of the day row.
ing on the lake, in pretty boats of all
designs and shapes. In the evening
they are hung with Chinese lanterns,
and the effect upon the water from the
hotel piazza is very beautiful"
Mary J. Phillips, a native OF Ulster
County, New York, who mas been for
the past ten years a captive among
the Indians of Colorado, has escaped,
and is now on her way to Ulster,
where some of her mothers relatives
reside.
Victoria G.. Woodruff and Tennie
G.. Claflin are growing profound in
their weekly. Vic is writing "interior
commerce" and Tennie e. "of the ap-
plication of Government control 10
social order.n
A gentleman asked lady, "How
did you get along, when .abroad, to
make yourself UNDERSTOOD" "Oh,
my dear sir" replied she, with quite a
French air, 1--WE had an ateIrupfe'
with u.s." The same lady, having ar
ranged some statues in an adjoining
room, requested the same gentlemen
to step into the next apartment and
see her antics"
A clever writer says providence
meant woman to make the world
beautiful as much as flowers and but
I terfiies, and there is no sin in tasteful
dress, but only in devoting to it much
money or too much time"
I This most sensible view, andis the
true medium between the one extreme
of straight and rigid simplicity and
devotion of the best energies of a life
time to vanity and frivolity. But, at
ter all, what is this rage for dress but
an effort after the beautiful? The
reason why the beautiful is not always
the result, is because so many women
are ignorant or merely initiative
They have no sense of fitness. The
short wear what belongs to the tall
brunettes sarifice their natural beauty
to look blondes, as well they may, fol
blondes seem generally preferable.