The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-08
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.

s, LADIES' DEPARTMENT.
Any fool can make q woman talk
but it's rather hard to make one listen
In Maryville, Ohio, robust German
woman supports herself in luxury by
driving q dray. 11 -a sa 55ita
The young lady with speaking eyes
has made them quite hoarse by over.
using them. .s.-..
The palest tints OF silk are the most
stylish. Cost awfully and spot easily.
Good for the trade. ..-'.'e.
There is female omnibus-driver
In San Francisco whose receipts are
greater than any of the male drivers.
A Fort Wayness has been married
three times, to Messrs. Robbs. Rob
bins, and Robinson, respectively.
II women were half so charming af-
ter marriage as before it, the divorce
business would be practically annihi-
lated.
Naomi, the daughter of Enoch, was
i've hundred and eighty years old
when she was married. There's hope
for some OF you other ladies, after all.
Babies in arms should not be taken
to concerts and other places of amuse-
ment. They don't care a cent for
such things, anyway.
Ladies think that there ought to be
law against men smoking bad cigars
on the public promenade. There is O
law-the law of politeness-but it is
seldom followed.
Young ladies who wish to make their
friends think they have a great many
admirers present themselves every two
or three days with handsome basket
of flowers.
Anew style of dress goods is called
the Alpine poplin, is two yards
wide, and SO yard. Dress-makers
say they only require twenty-five yards
OF this material to make whole dress.
-Four appointments of ladies to first
class postofhces, with four thousand
dollar salaries, have been made during
the present administration. Over one
hundred women are employed in simi-
Lar offices throughout the country,
though not at such high prices.
Boston possesses feminine aspi-
rant to metaphysical knowledge who
processes to be q proficient in logic
and gravely asserts that the following
syllogism is perfect: "All material
things are indestructible; the soul is
not material; therefore the soul is not
indestructible-i. e., is destructible."
A few ladies who imagine that they
have very classic profiles, wear their
bonnet strings of lace or ribbon, fas-
tened under the chignon, with the long
ends hanging down the back. A
style that is not so becoming as is
imagined, and gives to most faces
very bold appearance.
The manner in which man dress
maker trims q ball-dress is to place
the dress on one side of the room and
then fling at it garlands and punches of
flowers, while woman stands ready
with pins to fasten them on as they
fall in the place where the master hand
has thrown them. -a
At the Presidents reception on the
9th, the only lady not dressed in silk,
satin, or velvet, or all three combined,
was the wife of Sir Edwar2 Thornton,
the British Minister, who wore dress
of dark, soft looking material, emil
nently suitable for winter wear. The
deviation from the general rule was as
suggestive as it was striking.
A Baltimore lady, who had been ex-
ceedingly annoyed by boys who rang
her door bell and then ran away, finally
set trap for them by which a pail of
water was to be split upon the next
person who rang the bell. In a few
minutes her pastor called and was
baptized, but retired without making
visit.
Mrs. Colt, of Hartford, who has
built for her working people one of the
most beautiful churches on this conti-
nent, has determined to build for their
children o school, to cost not less than
$50, 900. 1t is by such provisions as
these on the part of capitalists for the
laborers in their employ that the best
adjustment of the quarrel between cap
ital and labor will be reached.
"Do you allow any reduction to
ministersY said q young lady to Q
salesman in a well-known sewing ma
chine agency on Washington street,
Boston, the other day, where she had
been trying to drive bargain. ''Oh,
yes, always. Are you minister's
wife?" "Oh, no, I'm not married."
said the lady, blushing, Daughter,
then?" "NO." The salesman looked
puzzled. 'T'm engaged to theologi-
cal student" The reduction was
made. -. -.............
respectful manners of his countrymen,
the French, towards women, and at
tributes it to the influence of political
equality on social life. The Graphic
disagress with him, and says that
''there is political equality enough in
America, and it reflects itself strongly
in social life between man and man,
but in no country are women treated
with more instructive Difference.
The widow Quinby, of Ulster coun-
ty, N. Y, has sued Mr.. James
James for breach of promise Of mar
riage, he having deserted her, and mar
ried the widow Smallhorn. As the
widow Quinby's husband had died
drunkard-from the effects, in fact,
of too many large horns-it is no won
der that Mr.. James concluded it was
safer for to take Smallhorn.
A young woman in . Lynn shoe
mandatory, whose duty it is to fas-
ten the taps and soles of ladies' boots
together, preparatory to lasting. recent
ly prepared twenty cases Of boots in
ten minutes less than ten hours. The
achievement was the result of q bet of
$1,000 against $500 that she could not
perform such q task, which she under
took with the promise that she should
have one-half the forfeit if successful.
She thus earned $500 in one day.
It is tc wine drinking we owethe ori-
gin of the kiss. After Mecenas
caught his wife sucking his finest wines
through the bunghole Of q barrel with
q straw, the custom became general in
Rome for the husbands to kiss the
lips Of their wives, that they might dis
cover the quality Of their good ladies'
stolen ibations, and Cato, the elder,
recommends this plan to theserious At
tention Of all careful heads Of families.
Ladies' who desire dress-makers or
seving-women to come to their houses,
experience great difficulty in obtaining
them. So few women follow the ayo-
cation that their time is more than oc-