The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-04-19
LADIES GOSSIP.

II ShA hhhNDS
in Iowa is owned and managed by a
woman.
A Minnesota paper prints a list OF
103 old maids and widows who wish
to change their state.
Widow Fay, of Oregon, has set up
a cigar mandatory, and her weeds
are said to be the best in the State.
At q fancy ball in Florence the
Princess Strozzi wore a dress so heavy
with Jewels and gold damask that as
soon as all her guests had arrived
she changed it for q lighter costume,
which would enable her to move with
something like ease.
A pair of blond beauties who per-
form at a dancing saloon here, says a
Washington letter, called at the War
Department the other day, armed
with cOwhides, and whipped a clerk
who had spoken slightingly of them
in q New York sporting paper.
Florence Nightingale says, in an
introduction to the "Memoirs OF
Agnes e. JONES'" "In less than
three years she had reduced one OF
the most disorderly hospital pOpula-
tons in the world to something like
Christian discipline, such as the police
themselves wondered at"
A fellow lately started a store in
Kansas. The following was the sign
he hung out: "Dry goods by John
Smith, who wishes to get married.
This sign drew all sorts OF custom
The single ladies went, of course, anC
the married men all told their wives
to go, under the impression that theJ
could easily cheat so great a fool!
japanese women whose lovers are
faithless rise at two o'clock in the
morning and drive nails into sacred
trees, vowing that when her lover
dies she will pull them out. She be-
lieves that the god, to save his tree,
will strike her lover dead. This is a
little worse than lying awake nights
to hate people.
A Baltimore cigar-dealer has proba.
bly, experienced the greatest run OF
luck ever recorded of mortal man.
Within the last three months he has
inherited a fortune, drawn q big lot
terry prize, found $1,000 buried in his
cellar, and lost his mother-in.law-
which makes a woman item OF the
matter.
A lady writing from Florence says
that Hart, the Kentucky sculptor Is
engaged upon "the most beautiful
female figure the worldhas everseen,"
and that it will require many years
to complete the work. "You know,
nv dear friend" said Hart, sit takes
even the Almighty nineteen years lo
make u perfect woman."
A Boston girl, whose gallant on a
ride, contrary to her wish, insisted on
stoppinr at a ~tobacconist's for cigar,
took advantage of his leaving hel
mistress of the situation and the We
hicle to drive to her paternal abode,
i'm front of which the abandoned one,
some hours atterward, found his con
veyance.
Kentucky paper gives an account
of S 1000 hog-pen built by woman
farmer i'm Scott County. 1t states
hat it is painted and grained, fur
nished with hot and cold water, heat
ed with steam, and lighted with gas;
The troughs are mahogany, inlald
with ivory. Plans of the pen have
been forwarded to Greeley, and re-
ceive his warm appreciation.
Some of the banking and insurance
companies in England are beginning
to employ women as clerks. The Pru-
dental Assurance Company, when
has the largest staff of clerks OF any
London office, has created Il depart
ment for female service, Tor when
only the daughters and widows OF
professional men, merchants, n
Gentlemen engaged In public Office
are eligible. .
A wretch broke off an engagement
forthe following cOgent reason: you
know a case is a fearful nuisance, II
always carry my cigars loose Ill my
vest pOcket. The necessary anlouhi
of affection toward Molly was awful
rouyh on lem. Never came away
from that house but every one OF EN-
was smashed. Couldn't expect a Eel,
low to waste good In lha'
way, could your"
In France crinoline is going the
nv of all things-that is, the crinO.
line which is composed of steel and
snrinps. Skirts which are flounced
and Suffed to support the paniers
have taken their place. AS long as
such a support is needed we cahnot
see the wisdom of giving up the hoop
skirt, substituting something IN ,o i.s
place which will be heavier ana more
d~isagreeable, while it will not be as
effective.