The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-14
LADIES COLUMN.

Five feet five inches is said to bt
the perfection Of height for wo
man. ...
A French woman in Toledo, wife
of a fisherman, speared five hun.
drod pike in four days.
Come and kiss me" is the name
of "a small Vicksburg steamboat.
Anna Die inson, report says, is
not to marry, but is to so on the
stage.
Mis-. R,wlins, widow of the late
Secretary Of War, has m arried Mr..
G. +. Daniels, of New York.
Some "horrid" man says that in
the present style Of dressing young
ladies hair it is hard to tell which il
switch.
"What's in dress?' says a popu-
lar writer. Sometimes great deal
and sometimes a precious little.
There is time for all things. The
time to 'leave" is when ayoung lady
asks you how the walk is.
Mrs. Lamb, of Petersburg, Va,
became derangol from investing in
lottery tickets and failing to draw
prizes.
Half OF the sorrows Of women
would be averted if they could re-
press the speech they know to be
useIoss-nay, the speech they had
resolved not to utter.
Tight lacinS caused a lady of IN
adilla, New York, to burst a blood :
vessel two days after her marriage.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to
firt, says most men are like cold
very easily caught, but very difficult
to get rid Of.
MolIis Morton is the most unpop-
ular young lady in Louisville female
circles now. She was the especial
favorite of Alexis when he was in
that city.
1t is the fashion for ladies during
Lent to wear large chain of jet
around the waist, which hangs ut
one sile and to which is attached a
large jo. cross.
Knoxville, Tenn, has q youthful
feminine tax collector-Miss Lucy
Stevens-who collects more in q day
than a dozen publicans could in a
fortnight.
A South End, Boston, woman has
recently presented her husband with
$1,000 house, which amount she
had saved out of her house-keeping
fund.
A virtuous woman is thus describ-
ed by Solomon: She looketh well
to tho way of her household, and
eatheth not the bread of idleness.
Six hundred girls, aged from tif-
teen to twenty, applied in one after
noon at the New York Grand Ope-
ra-house for places in the Oriental
marches in LaIia Roohh.
There is q woman in Philadelph phia
who weighs but ninety-ive pounds,
although she eats three pounds OF
meat between the sunrise and sun
set of every day.
Mrs. James w. Mays has amazed
the people of Fulton, Ky, by her
skill as marksman. Last week.
with q rife, she shot several wild
geese, hitting each exactly in the
90 head. aa7 a E "a ~
Mrs, II race Greedy, who has been
considered incurably sick with pul,
monary affection, has almost entire,
ly recovered her health at the Isle OF
Wight, and will soon return tc
America.
An Ohio man has been married
seventy-live years, and has had hls
mother-in-la as q bOarder during
the whole time. He says he has
never had cause to regret her com
pany, and recommends her as
model mother-in-law. She is now
lO5 years old.
A Boston lady declares that she
is guilty of downright falsehood {
doz;n times day, by saying to peo
pie whom she meets, 81 am so GLAD
to see you" and she cannot break
herself of the habit OF so lying.
In the Elgin watch factories three
hundred Of the five hundred EN-
ployes are girls who earn from ter
to twenty dollars q week, and do tht
more delicate part of the work mor'
skillfully than men.
Mrs. Brown of North Carolina
having stated that she cured he
consumption by partaking Of kero
sene oil, her example was quick.
followed by several neighbors. Th'
delusion was soon exploded, how
ever.
The girls in the Iowa State Agri
cultural College not only knew NOR
about farming than the male stu
dents, but have become proficient
in making beds and dusting, unde'
the superintendent of matrol
and general housekeeper.
The Chicago Post has q femal'
editor whose extraordinary abilities
were first manifested, according y
the Woman's Journal, when sh
was sent out to write up a Sigh
street-car difficulty, and returne.
with a full report, to which was add
ed a complete history of vehicula