The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-11-08
ABOUT WOMEN.

AbOOA vVOuAkHlNs
They have female life insurance
agents in Wisconsin.
Some Georgia ladies fogged q
bogus doctor for quackery.
A Wisconsin. girl has committed
suicide because her hair didn't curl.
A German Princess is en- route for
n permanent residence ut Oneida,
N. Y.
The Empress Josephine bigh-back
combs of the last century are coming
in fashion again.
An Iowa lady has invented an
apparatus for raising bread which
will do the job in five minutes.
The mother Of Porter, the Ken
tucky giant, died at Portland, KY,
September both, aged 81 years.
Mrs. Lottie Lee, the young bride
of Robert T.. Lee Jr., died ut Ro-
inancoka, Va, n few days since.
The Louisville Exposition contains
lock of hair six feet long, cut from
tho head Of n Swiss peasant girl.
The women vote in Kansas ut
school meetings, and it is reported
that "the men vote just as their wives
do"
The cool days always require warm
tints for the wardrobe, and the
toilette should suggest warmth by its
color.
George Sand advocates, in letter
TO tho Revue Moderne, the organiza-
ton of female Freemasonry in
France.
Coat OF arms of "new and
original design" are breaking out
with greater virulence than ever,
this Fall.
Tinted cards and note paper,
light, brown, dark groenish, gray.
and stone color, are pronounced
correct.
A premium of $40 was offered at
nm Illinois Fair for the oldest maiden
lady who would state her age.
There were no competitors.
A black velvet bonnet had a rose
colored feather, fringed with camels
hair, and face trimmings and brides
of rose-co!ored. gros-grain ribbon.
A western widow would like to
meet tho enterprising typogIapher
who, when she advertises for an
agent. made her appear TO want "a
gent"
Josephine McCarty, editor of the
Truth Teller, thinks that If the whole
truth about women could be known
every virtuous man in the world
would run bowling to tho nearest
water and drown himself.
Miss Sabone Karnell, of Little
Compton, Il. l., is en- route to
Omaha on foot. At last accounts she
Sas at Terre Haute, Ind, in good
and proposed to push
ahead to the end of her journey.
A Boston girl rejoices in the pref
v name of Elizabeth Martha Selma
ieorgiana Augusta Cuban Burrows.
They call her Lizzie Matte Lima
Georgia Gussie "for short" and she
writes for the Literary papers," of
course.
Mrs. DR.. Clair Il. De. Everse
'pettigue. OF Boston, spoke in Wal
ingford, Vt, recently on Love and
Marriage" The lecture was set ten
minutes earlier than the usual hour
n order to give the Doctor plenty of
ime to call off her name.
4 Boston paper. in noticing the
leath, recently. of Mrs. Susan
Warren Appleton. in that city, says:
She was always striving to be use
ul to others. and to divert their at
ention from herself" Could bet
er epitaph be engraved upon the
OF human being?
One of the features of n London
heater is q woman styling herself
he Mexican athlete. She holds
uspended by cord from her teeth
wo 1S0-pound balls and at same time
100-pound ball in each hand. She
lso shouldersa 500-pound cannon |
nd holds it while O round is being
red.
The wealthiest woman in England, |
n point of real estate, is the Hon.
frs. Meynoll Ingram. widow about
4 years of age. She is the daughter
( Lord Halifax. and her deceased |
beqceathed to her $780,
90 year in land absolutely. She
as no children. Speculation is
lready rife as to the man on whom
er second choice will fall.
In France the ladies 60 hunting.
correspondent in Paris writes:
lere were q few ladies at the Mound
'arnassus terminus in fantastic sport
,g garments. They wore soft felt
ats, with tufts of cocks feathers,
lort brown linen dresses, faced with
I'd, strong, hob-nailed boots fitting
cry neaty, and brown CATERS. At
,e country seats of the Legitimist
obles ladies often GO a-feld with the
entlemen to shoot partridges.
rench women never look SO be-
itching as in semi-masculine gar
ents.
Andrew Rountres was killed in