The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-07
FEMININICAL.

Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson is tn
open bookstore i'll Chicago.
Nearly all women like soldiers, and
some would like a good offer, sir.
What man wants-all he can get.
What Il woman wants-all she can't
get.
A Philadelphia paper says that one
half of the servant girls in that city are
drunkards.
A hotel is about to be Established at
Vinceunes, Ind. to be run exclusively
by women.
A sewing society at Milwaukee, can
use up neighbours character in eX-
actly seven minutes.
A prominent lady of Hayneville,
Ala, subscribed corn bread and whisky
to q supper of temperance society.
The police of Vienna have notified
the newspapers that the publication OF
matrimonial advertisements must be
stopped.
NJ. Iebrun, the French Minister of
Education. has named his three daugh
ters ''Jenappes," ''Civilization," and
"Republic." aa
Archbishop Manning has issued an
edict to his clergy forbidding the en-
pIoyment or admission of women rs
singers in church chOirs.
Mothers are reminded that the pre-
sent style of sharp boot heels Is dan-
perous for small children. Try the
palm of your hand or shingle.
A maiden lady being asked why she
had never married, replied that she
had never seen the man for whom she
was willing to get up three meals
day for forty years.
Miss Stevens, beautiful blonde
preacher, is creating profound relig-
ious sensation in Georgia. She is said
to make all the masculines feel like
embracing her-dOctrines.
The old-fashioned cottage bOnnets
are coming in again, and have already
been worn by many fashionable ladies.
The only thing required to make them
becoming, is pretty face inside.
Miss Cinnie RushmOre is preparing
a captivating book on the "Nagaries of
Vassar,u which will recount in spirit
ed style the adventures of the sweet
girl graduates of Vassar College
Ladies seem to have the coral mania
very badly mt present, and enormous
prices are given for ornaments and
necklaces of q light pink shade of
coral, which is very rare
A woman who has been engaged, or
as good as engaged, to six or eight dif-
ferent men cannot retain much purity
ofmind or strength ofaffection.-[ From
"At last" by Marion Harland.
The French style leOfbathing dress will
be almost universally worn next sum
mer at the sca-shOre. They are made
tight-fitting, trimmed with gay colOr5,
and are usually very becoming
A new style of earring is a nest Of
silver filagree work suspended by small
gold chains from n silver ball, in which
is large diamond, and i'll the nest Is u
white swan, with eyes and wings of
small diamonds.
"Are YOU not alarmed ut the ap
proach of the king of terrors?' said n
minister to q sick man. 'Oh, no; l
have been living six and thirty years
with the queen of terrOrs-ths king
cannot be much worse"
An English law compels a married
woman if she has money or the means
of making ii, and her lord has none, to
support him, be he ever so worthless,
that the expense of his keeping may
rot come upon the parish.
Miss Kane, Of Baltimore, set out to
write a list of the wrongs of women,
but found so many of them that she
was driven to the conclusion that
women suffer wrong i'll being born at
all. This dispOses of the whole ques-
ton i'm nutshell.
"a devoted little wife" i'm Lafayette,
Ind, seeing her husband blowing in
the muzzle of gun while holding
back the hammer with his foot, trip
ped down to ask a miliner about the
cost of mourning, and whether it would
be becoming to her complexion.
There is female patient in. the
Stockton (Cal. Asylum whose insanity
was caused by tight lacing-. A brute
of an editor in giving this says: "Ai
women who lace tightly are insane
the only difference is that this one was
found out. The others viii be, in good
time"