Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-05-20
ITEMS FOR THE LADIES.

! One Of the most beautiful women Of
Portland, Oregon, has just eloped with
q Chinaman and sailed for "tiOweTy
land.n
Let woman once think you uncon-
querable, and unless she Is unlike all
other women; she will want to con-
quer you.
| A young man in Kansas City, Mo-,
last Tuesday attempted suicide be-
cause young servant maid wOldn't
marry him.
| Two young Atlantans ran q foot
race on Sunday for the shoRor of es-
corting belle to church, The winner
| found she had just gone with another
fellow.
The editor of the Brownsville Clip
per, is proud to state that he is the
owner of a very small pig with rat
killing proclivities.
"High" Parsons would have couples tarry
When they propose to wed in Lent
But why? The sooner people marry,
The sooner mostly, they repent.
A clever repartee is attributed to the
member from Mormondom in the new
| Congress, A brother member asked
him how many wives he had,
Enough to keep me from running
after other peoples" he promptly re-
piled.
An enraged man tears his hair, but
an enraged woman tears her hus-
bands.
Marrying q woman for her beauty
is like eating a nightingale for its
singing.
Fifty years ago woman carried the
mails once week between FredOma
and Buffalo, n. Y.
The ladies connected with the
Young Woman's Christian assOcia-
ton, Of Baltimore, are about to estab-
lish "WOrking-wOmen's home" in
that city.
The New London wis., Times re-
ports that a girl in that place l3 years
of age, committed to memory LOO
verses OF the bible in a single week.
A teacher of vocal music asked an
old lady i'll her grandson had an ear
for music. "Wa'al,n said the old wo-
man, ~ really don't know; won't you
take the candle and see?"
A paper published in Paris, KY,
states that 26 ladies in that town sat
together in private room, without
any restraint, and never spoke word
for two hours. We don't believe it!
Cashmere dresses, colored and black
are worn this spring, over silk dresses,
and ale elaborately embroidered or
braided and edged with lace. The
sack is cut up at the sides and back,
and with very long sleeves, also trim
med with lace.
IA gentleman expressed to lady his
admiration of her toilet. She said she
supposed he had been impressed with
her angel sleeves. He answered with
effusion: mo; but he'd like to be-"
A gentleman in this city, whose
wife is on the go-out most all the time
calls her the active partner; and at
home no one would ever accuse her Of
being spent one.
Fontenelle being asked one day by a
lord in waiting at Versailles what dif.
ference there was between a clock and
awoman, instantly replied; "a clock
serves to point out the hours, and q
woman to make us forget them"
A spirited girl observes that to her
mind the women who want female
suffrage because it will cause divis-
ion in families, must be a precious
meek lot. A woman ofany pluck can
pick quarrel with her husband with
out waiting to split on votes.
About year ago, in town in Ne
vada, q girl presented herself at the
bedside of a young man asked him
il he loved her. He said he did. In
less than year thereafter there came
a suit for breach of promise, and the
young fellow had $1,000 to pay.
The Queen of Holland is one of the
strongest ard most sarcastic writers
for the press in the Netherlands, and
to her is attributed the authorship OF
the vigorous and bitter leaders against
Germany which have attracted SO
much atteltion in several of the lead
ing journals of Rotterdam, the Hague,
and Amsterdam.
Seven girls in Cincinnati have asso-
ciated themselves into a society hay-
ing for its object the investigation of
the antecedents of the wife hunters.
Any girl having an "ofer" may apply
to the society and in less than week
she will receive history of her lover
from his youth upward. Weddings
are likely to be scarce hereafter in
Cincinnati.
A woman in Mississippi, last season
cultivated, with the help of mule,
ten acres of corn, ten acres of wheat,
and ten acres of oats; making cleaI
profit of S400.
The chaplain Of the Kansas State
prison is an old lady of 10 years, Mrs.
Lydia Sexton.
A bachelor says that all he should
ask for in a wife would be a good tenn
per, sound health, good understands
ing, agreeable phsiognomy, pretty
figure, good connection, domestic hab,
its, resources of amusements, good
spirits, conversational talents, elegant
manners and plenty of money?