Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-14
WOMAN.

The latest style Of engagement rings
are Of sapphires or Opals surrounded
with small diamonds.
LUeretia Mott was seyenty-nine
years of age on Wednesday last, and
In excellent health.
Young people now announce their
engagement by leaving their cards to-
gether at the houses of their friends.
Wilkie Collins makes one Of his
characters in miss or Mrs" ask:
"Who ever met with a tall woman
who had a will Of her own"
Ladies will be glad 10 hear that an
acid has been discovered which, when
poured overs bouquet of fresh flowers,
will keep it fresh in the hottest ball
room.
"The strongest propensity In a WO-
mans nature" says q careful student
Of the sex, '1is 10 want TO know what
Is going on, and the next is to boss
the job"
Hadame Patti-Caux appeared in
Moscow on the 4tb Of December, in
"DinOrah," and was called before
the curtain tWenty-One times. The
receipts were nearly $4,000.
A French woman calling herself
Madame Brigham Young hiss been
arrested in Paris for indulging in what
she called the Utah eanean "a per-
Torrance compared TO which the Paris
article is but a humdrum affair.
"DO be frank" said young Mr..
Smith to Miss Francis, who had been
quiZzing him for an hour. "But, Ed
ward, l have been Frank twenty-five
years, and l should like to try some
other name just for a change" was
the arch reply.
Annie Lord, the daughter of bath
ing attendant at LynmOuth, England,
recently received 8 medal for the
Royal Humane society from ~rescuing
q lady who last August was swept out
TO sea, and was brought insensible to
shore by her reseuer.
Fashionable receptions are called
"COtilliOn Dinners" and include q
dinner at six o'clock and a dance and
supper late in the evening. To the
former are invited about thirty init.
mate friends, while the invitations for
the evening are numbered by hun
dreds.
Henrietta Knapp, acol0red woman
OF Port Chester, whose name figured
eOnspicuOusly q short time since In
connection with the suspected poison
ing Of her daughter, was arrested few
days ago and held to bail for nearly
s~uffocating a number of persons at the
residence Of her son, by placing
cayenne pepper on a hot stove. The
child's life was saved with much diff
Guilty,
Mrs. Laura Curtis Billiard, late edi-
tor of The Revolution, has COM
menced a series of Friday evening re-
ceptiOns at her elegant residence on
Thirty seventh street, New York.
The reception last Friday was attend
ed by Bayard Taylor, Louise Ohand-
Ter MoultOn, George Ripley, Edmund
Q, SteadmaD, Mary L. Booth, White.
law Reid, and many others well
known in literature, art and Jour-
nalism.
Lisa Weber, otherwise the McCar-
thy, danced and sung in Peoria, Hi
nos, some nights since, along with
some other blondes, and so conducted
herself that a couple of ladies with.
drew 70 the utmost corners of their
box in very shame. This offended
the amiable Lisa, and she introduced
into q song the words;
I wouldniE go TO a place
Where l had to W. my facs.
The audience saw the meaning of the
gag" and, to its credit, Kissed the
amiable blonde vigorously.
Several young ladies of Troy, New
York, and in fact, some married Is
dies, are talking about getting up a
society to oppose the rg~anizatiOn Of
any more "lodges" OF any kind in
that city. They do not object to the
principles Of these secret societies, as
they, Of course, know nothing about
secrets Of any kind, but claim that
there are too many attractions at the
lodges every night in the week to suit
them. Between MasOns, Odd-Fel-
lows, knights OF Pythias, Grand Ar.
my Of the Republic, Sons OF Temper
ance and club rooms, it Is no wonder
the ladies complain Of the nonSattend-
ance OF their husbands and gallants.
The editor of the Portland Trans
cript, having asked a lady cOrrespou-
dent who applied for q situation,
What Cuu4N SHo GOF IoSolV6u the
following comprehensive reply: 81
can keep house or 8 secret; drive a
horse or a bargain; tend a postofice, q
store, or q baby; make a loaf Of bread
or shirt; sew on buttons, etc, or so
toTthi mend stockings, milk q COW,
wash, iron, bake, or bRew-is that
enonRhfo s woman t8d0P Then PII
deciPher the copy that puzzles you,
rewrite the manuscript plain and true,
or even, il fortune but play me fair,
and my sphere points the way Of my
duty there, takethe editors scissors,
his office, and chair. Satisfactory
guarantee any day that l can dc and
have done alIthat I say (and more
tool"