The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1871-08-24
ITEaIa 1ROuT. 8 WOMEN.

has 80 female telegraph
operators /; Lyons, 4S; Bordeaux, 6;
and Marseilles, IL. ~ W ao
Mrs. LAURA FAIR is reported to
have said: aIf poor, dear Critten-
den were here, he'd get me of.
A VOICE from Washington Terri
tory, "Send US wives =" Thousands
respond, "Take ours !"
yIoLET appears to be the most
popular perfume among fashionable
young ladies.
1T is the latest edict that the bride
be married in plain and simple traV-
cling dress.
MRS. HOWE is to be the Woman's
candidate for the next Governor OF
Massachusetts,. aa.
ADAM is the only man who never
tainted his wife with his mothers
superiority in culinary accomplish
ments. II .9
81 HAVE a great love for old
hymns" said a pretty girl to q
masculine companion. ST am much
fOnder Of young hers, - was the reply.
VICToRIA's daughter, Crown Prin-
cess of Prussia, is growing fat, like
her mother. She is 81 years old,
and has given birth to six children.
A New ORLEANS lawyer contend
ed that woman obliged to work for
the support of family of children
has a moral right to get drunk, for
it makes her forget her wretchedness.
VERY young and silly ladies have
a fashion of wearing their watch in
their waist band, in order to demon
strate the fact that they have such
an article in their possession.
A "WoMAN's printing office" has
recently been established in Wash
ington by Mrs. Julia A. Holmes, a
lady favOrably known to the public
as e writer, and for her labors in be-
half of education and general reform.
Appleton's Journal thinks that
preachers who speak of the "sim-
plicity" of dress of our grandmothers
are not well read in the history of a
hundred years ago. 7.
A WOMAN says: "Men are easily
deluded; they are taken in on every
hand, the same art succeeds with all
of them, and that woman is a genius
who strikes out new way in which
to get the better of them"
AN advocate having gained suit
for a poor young lady, who was very
ugly, she remarked: 81 have nothing
to pay you with, sir, but my heart. "
Gland it over to my clerk, if you
please I wish no fees for myself !"
he replied.
Little Things is the title of neat
amateur paper published once a
month by a number of little girls at
Brighton, Penn. The type>setting,
as we'll as the selection and arrange
ment of the matter is all done by lit
tie girls, and in a very creditable
manner. ..
Miss LIZZIE O'BRIEN is engaged
in the benevolent enterprise of estab-
fishing home or refuge for female
emigrants who arrive in New York.
Many of these poor girls are now led
to ruin by harpies of their own sex
who swarm the streets. '-'
A PHILADELPHIA journal relates
how a lady in Indiana applied for a
divorce on the ground that her hus>
band was COMPOUNDED fool" The
judge said that if the plea were al
lowed every man who married would
be liable to the same imputation.
HERE'S one of Punch's best
things: "Women are said to have
stronger attachments than men. It
is eVinced in little things. A man
is often attached to an old hat; but
did you ever hear of a woman having
an attachment for an old-fashioned
bonnet e.
The chignon defOrmity is out of
fashion-only those now wear the
thing who have no natural hair. The
ost fashionable ladies braid their
hair and either twist it round the
head diadem fashion or let the braids
hang down. This sensible and ele-
CANT fashion will last until some ugly
female or crafty coifFeur finds some
other dis6guring device to supersede
nature.
A TRAVELLER who saw a pretty
girl in the same car with himself
says: GIN few years." thought 1,
"that infant will be an ornament to
society I; but had she not better die T?
Very soon they will tie some dead
woman's hair to the back of her
head, fasten her ribs with corset,
and hang a bird cage around her
lower limbs. Worse than that; when
she arrives at maturity she will be
compelled to determine whether she
is for protection or free trade, to
understand the intricacies of pig
iron, and 60 to the polls and vote.
Home, Sweet Home
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