Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-11-01
WOMAN ITEMS.

A married lady who has many admirers
was in company, recently, where the mar
rage tie was the subject of conversation,
ana pleasant sparring arose between her
husband, also present, and herself 50 Ah,"
she exclaimed, at length, % YOU do not
. think 50 highly of the hymeneal knot as
do ~ . Yes, | do he replied, - and it is
only when you wish to make double beau
knot that | object to it,"
The retail dry goods dealers of Berlin
have resolved to employ only female clerks in
their establishments.
A Loekport girl based her breach of prom
ise suit upon the slender ground that her
recreant lover had told her that if he mar
ried any one he would marry her. 1t took
the jury all night to award her one hundred
dollars damages, and one or two of the iu-
rors do not feel quite satisfied that she ought
to have even that.
A New York morning journal publishes
the following unique marriage notice:
BRENT-MoRENO-In Lima, recently. Hen
ry NJ. Brent, American Charge d'Afaires to
Peru, son of Gen j. H. Brent, associate
editor,of POmeroy's Democrat, to Miss Mich
aela Delgoelo Moreno. The bride is from
one of the richest, Oldest, and most infiuen-
tial families in Peru, and brings to her hus-
band S5,000,000 in coin The wedding was
the grandest affair of the kind ever seen in
that country, the invitations thereto being
in the shape of solid silver coin. about the
size OF an American quarter dollar.
The best womans rights item we have seen
comes from France 4 very beautiful lady
Of the Die Vernon type. living in Boulogne,
sent a challenge to the publisherof humor-
Gus Journal, who had % tNiee concerned
himself with her private affairs \ formal
acceptance of the duel was returned. the
choice of arms was waived, but decided
preference for those Of the lady herself was
expressed. Reconciliation followed, and the
wedding-trip is to the United States.
\ daughter of Senator Brownlow made an
unsuccessful attempt to elope with n Knox
vile (Tenn.) stone-cutter, the other day,
and has been immured in convent.
Kate Field has astonished London people
by her after-dinner speeches.
The citizens of Battle Creek. Mich, have
rewarded Miss Emma Pearl of that city,
with Il fine gold watch, for taking care of
smallpox afflicted family.
Anna c. Brackett of the ST Louis Nor
nal School receives the highest salary
(S2S00) paid to any female teacher in the
United States.
\ lady in Lewiston, Ne, has dress
which she has worn every summer for twenty
five years The dry-goods men look on her
with perfect scorn, while she is beloved by
every married man in town.
Mis- Eureka Jones. the widow Of the late
,iailor, has been elected iailor of Hudson, y.
Y, to fill the unexpired term.
This is the way in which Professor Faw-
cett, the famous blind Liberal member Of
the British Parliament, became acquainted
with his wife He was at social gather
inE on the evening Of the day when the tele
gram announced the death of President Lin
coin, and heard from girl Of eighteen the
exclamation. :. 1t would have been less loss
to the world if every crowned head Of Eu-
rope had fallen ," lie asked to be intro
duced to this girl, who has been his wife for
five years, and Is the most popular speaker
and woman in England.
gentleman from Alabama, while riding
to South Deerfeld, Mass, on the Ashland
stage, q few mornings ago, had an example Of
woman's rights that must have astonished
him. lie was seated on the top Of the stage,
and as it stopped in Conway was filling his
pine with tobacco for quiet smoke. At
this point lady, rs she may be called by
courtesy. got aboard, choosing also an ont
side seat. and her first move was to snatch
the pipe ont Of tie Alahamian- hand and
throw it away.
Mis- Kate Field asserts that women with
out tact should die Miss Anthony. on the
contrary, thinks they should die intact.
NJ women have appNd for admission at
Amherst college this year.
4 couple Of girls have opened f,shiona-
bic tailoring shop i'll Boston.
In hardy Scotland a Young woman has
succeeded her father as inspector OF the
poor.
The Professor of Agricultural Science in
Iowa College is woman, Mrs. Taper, who
is spoken Of as lady Of considerable at
taiamen;s-
=. Cars cannot wait for ladies to kiss good
bye, Is ungalantly paearded on St Louis
horse cars.
Boston is to have n free course of lectures
On English literature during the coming win
ter, to which ladies only will be admitted.
One Of those d" heather Chinee' up in
North Adams being asked if he was going
to marry :. Yankee wife, replied - No
could not bay dresses enough to satisfy the
demands of fashion" 1t won't be lucky
for him if the North Adams girls get hold Of
him.
1t is rumored in Paris that all plated
tresses and long hanging curls are to be
abandoned and that the hair Is to be worn
Ia Byron, in short crisp eurls all over the
head.
Mrs Fair. having been triumphantly ac-
quilted. viii at once proceed to delivering
her lecture She is Just in time for the open
ing Of the season.