Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-10
ABOUT WOMEN.

SCOT and red paint are the most
fashionable cosmetics in Alaska, and
coal oil Is the favorite perfume.
The voice Of a Pennsylvania prims
donna is described as "six oetaves
above the screech Of e lost Indian"
A young man who kept a collection
of locks Of hair of his lady friends
calls them his "hair-breadth escapes
A Wag thinks that ladies would not
make good statesmen, because s'the
question OF the age" always troubles
them.
In Michigan churches the prettiest
girls OF the congregation are selected
to carry around the plate on "colIee.
ton Sundays"
superior" is the favOrite Boston
feminine word Of cOmmendation, and
is applied equally to a bonnet or a SER
mon, a painting or a pie.
There is an Arabic poem which com.
paTes women to a mirage, but says
| that while q mirage's deceit is brief. 8
wOman's love deceives eternaIly.
In Dade county, Georgia, recently,
Mr.. John D.. Ashers was married to
Miss Kate Ashers. The proper thing
for the paTsgrapher5 to say in this
connection is Ashers to Ashers.
A Missouri woman recently eIoped,
leaving the following note to comfort
the heart of the husband: ssDear
WilIiam-GOOd bye, do not mourn
for the children, because none of them
are yours"
In the absence Of other competent
authority, a Georgian performed the
marriage ceremony at his own we'd
ding. Other people generally marry
their own Wives-he married HIM
self.
A Boston girl who was formerly a
pupil in DiO Lewis school at Lexing-
ton, has rid herself Of an impOrtunafe
lover by taking him WestOn-like
walks, which resulted In the heart
disease and death of the unfortunate
one.
The following insidious statement is
going the rounds: "A PittsheId fem
mime Sunday-schOOI teacher recently,
while engaged in the administration
Of her duties, lost her bible, and didn't
know where to find it. When she got
home the book OF books was fOuad
Wagging on the hustle behind her.
where it had been placed by a men,
Der OF her class who had not the fear
OF God before his eyes"
We warn the wives Of artists to be
careful how they treat husbands In the
least likely to become ilustrious.
Hundreds of years ago, in old Nurem-
berg, Mrs. Albert Durer wasn't good
to her genius of a husband, and now,
whenever he is leetured about, as he
wa in Boston, on Saturday, by Mr.,
WaterstOn, the audience is informed
that the wife seolded the artist unmer
cifully, and kept him hard at work
for the sake.Of his earnings. Their rep
utatiOn of the poor lady is exactly
that Of the wife of socrates, the unfOr-
tunate Zantippe, although, as Sir Al
eXander Grant remarks, Socrates
could not have been a very cOmfOrta-
bic husband" But, perhaps, too
many Of the wives Of great men have
had but scant Justice done them by
one sided biOgraphers.
Does everybody realize, asks the
New York Tribune, the pallid,
doughty, and generally U~ninteresting
complexion to which the Woman-suf-
cause has come ? The ReVOlu-
ton has subsidized without q coy
murmur into the embrace Of-gOOd
heavensl-a religious weekly. From
comes the umo that the
WOman's Journal is in a bad way
sadly Out-atelbeWs, in fact, and grow
pinched on a ~starveliug diet Of
subscription. There's a vague rumor
boating about to the effect that some
frantic souls r endeavOring to start
new paper advocating the cause.
They are only waiting for somebody f.,
70 subscribe ten thousand dollars. The
noon will probably fall about the time ,
hat plum does. The leaders keep I'D :
heir silly little struggles for prece- :
ience, but nobody pays any attention J
is too old and thresdDare a story. !
Their Ofense is always rank, and that /,
will never be stopped until
hey are like the members of Captain =
Artemus Wards valiant militia COM :
'any-all brigadier-generals. :