Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-05-15
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

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or Of satin, trimmed with gold lace OF
fringe.
| North Bloomfield, Mass, fills two va
cancies in her school board by the cleo
ton of Mrs. F. A. Smith and Miss EMILY
Edison.
Colored silk hose and high-heeled kid
or silk slippers to match the DRESS is
the fashionable " foot toilette for home
wear.
Large silk scarfs, the color of the
dress, or pretty contrasting color, are
now universally worn, instead of the lace
scarf
Since the death of the Prince Consort,
Victoria has with one exception toler-
ated none but widows as ladies in wait
ing.
The Academy Of Sciences at Phila-
delphia has elected woman to full
membership, and one of its most ac-
tive committees boasts female mem
Der.
The Mormons are just now making
savage love to their first wives. The
design is to keep them so contented
that they will refrain from lawsuits.
A New Orleans lady boasts that her
hair is i've feet ten inches long. 1t is
not stated whether or not this vast ca
pillary adornment is grated article.
Nine. Heinrich Heine, the widow of
the poet, having come into possession OF
large fortune, has contributed million
francs to the French fund of.indemnity.
Mary C. letters is superintendent of
the schools of Sioux County, Iowa, and
every teacher, male or female, in the
district, defers to her opinion on educa-
tional matters.
The Woman's Journal sarcastically
comments on the fact that although the
Iowa Legislature refuses to permit wo-
men to vote, it has exempted sewing
machines from taxation.
There is a young lady in Camden,
Mass, studying Latin. She has beau.
He asked her what Sic transit gloria
mundi" Meant She translated it,
Come and see me on Monday.
The curate of Liverpool says that the
reason Why so many Englishmen, in
signing the marriage register, simply
make their mark, is because they are too
drunk to write their names,
Josh Billings cannot see what women
want any more rights for; she beat
the first man born into the world out OF
a dead sure thing, and she can beat the
last one with the same cards.
Bangor (Maine) housekeepers have
chartered a vessel to bring chamber
maids and cooks from Sweden, the ex-
pense of the undertaking to be deducted
from the swindled Swedish womens
wages.
The Woman's Journal says that the
recognition of God in the Constitution
lis as much out of place in that docu-
ment as it would be in a written plan
for machine for spianing and weav-
ing"
Young ladies seem to be forgetting
that it is neither very good manners nor
very good policy to invite a gentlemen
to call the same evening she is intro
duced to him. Worthless fruit falls
easiest.
Saturday night, after having been
tabooed for calls for goodness knows
how long, has suddenly been adopted as
reception night by many Of our ultra
fashionables. Sweet are the uses of adj
yersiiy.
Mr.. Parton says there is tradition in
Virginia that Mrs. George Washington
was little tart in her temper, and Ia
vored the General occasionally with
nocturnal discourse too much in the
style of Mrs. Caudle.
40, sir" said woman pleading for
her husband, who was before the Police
Judge for beating her with a poker, he
wasn't always that way. There was a
happy time when he only struck me with
his fist
An English journal contains the fol
lowing brisk advertisement: Notice
If my husband, who left Bristol four
years ago, does not return within three
months to his wife from this date, she
intends to get married.
Two English demoiselles lately mar
ried two South Sea Islanders, whom they
met at fashionable party, at Sydney,
Australia. The dusky gentlemen
waltzed so well that the daughters Of the
British lion we're captivated at once.
The latest Philadelphia sensation is a
young Quakeress named Mary Smith,
who gives Bible readings in private
houses, which are attended by the most
fashionable ladies Of that city She is
said to be quite yonng and very pretty.
Rev. Augusta J. Chaplin, pastor of the
Universalist Church in Iowa City, ex-
changes regularly with all the male min
listers in the vicinity, and she breaches
so well that the reverend gentlemen she
exchanges with are unpopular with their