The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-24
ABOUT THE WOMEN.

u A Clergyman said the other day
that modern young ladies are no
the daughters of Shem and Ham
but the daughters of Hem ant
Sham!
Addie Balloa married couple a
Terre Haute, Ind, last week, and il
the nuptial lecture. told them tina
"cradies were cheaper than di
yorces."
Two young men of Knoxville
Tenn, have had gas bills presented
to them by young ladies whom they
visited and kept up until the "weC
sma' hours
In the Euskilda Bank of Stock.
holm the cierkships are all filed by
young woman, who, for the last
seven years, have fully met all the
requirements of the bank as we'll rs
young men could do.
a woman in Manchester, Eng
land, has been arrested for chloro-
forming women, and while they
| were in an insensible condition, cut
ting of and stealing their hair.
The figures in the absolutely lat
est style of Dolly Warden as so de-
lightfuily large that it takes two
young ladies to show one of them
1 properly. They have TO go arm-in-
arm and keep step or else the effect
is spoiled.
Since Mrs. wilcox, in New Hay-
en-, burned the straw in her bed
tick, Mr.. Wilcox has changed his
opinion about the expediency of
hiding money in a place of that
kind. The bonfire used up SG0O of
his assets.
There is weeping and snuffling
now III many once happy country
homes, owing TO the "old mans"
fondness for early horse raddish,
which he insists on the "women
folks" grating by hand to retain the
| flavor.
The latest Philadelphia sensation
is young Quakeress named Mary
Smith, who gives bible readings in
private houses, which are attended
by the most fashionable ladies of
that city. She is said TO be quite
young and very pretty.
An Oregon youth brought suit
for breach of promise against q
young lady, but she pleaded that
when she broke the engagement she
gave him $3.50 and q bottle of
"Florida water" as compensate On
and the jury considered that that
was quite sufficient.
Mrs. Joaquin Miller is reported
to be en- route from Oregon to the
Eastern States for the purpose of
entering the lecture field. Should
she choose for her subject, as she
has intimated her intention of do
ing, her own domestic history, the
famed poet of the Sierras may find
it no joaquin matter.
Miss Ellen +. Starbuck, who has
performed the part of confidential
clerk to the last three Governors of
Massachusetts-An Bullock.
and Claflin-and who has success
fully flied the post of Chief Clerk
of the State Executive Department
during the last year, has resigned
her place because of i'll health.
"Perley' writes 10 the Boston
Journal: Zone of our Episcopal
diVines announced last Sunday from
his reading desk that there would
be meeting of the Ladies' Chart
table Society on Wednesday, d. ",
which prompted an inquisitive
young miss TO inquire, after servi-
ces, if the ladies were to wear Dolly
Vardens ?"
The Missouri Women Suffrage
Association, at its late meeting, de-
clared, by resolution, that the course
of portion of the public press, in
seeking TO identify the woman suf-
frage movement with certain per-
sons holding obnoxious social
views, is violation of the plainest
principles of truth and fair dealing.
The Norwich Advertiser says:
ga young lady, very pretty, walk
cd around the new road & miles) in
one hour and forty-five minutes.
We remember escorting one around
the road once by moonlight; time
-four hours and forty minutes.
But then she wasn't in hurry. The
old folks had gone to camp meet
ing, and she had night-key."
Laura Fair, the California muir
deress, it is announced, has so COM
pletely changed the current of pub
lie feeling which set in with her
conviction, that she is now conf
dent of acquittal in the approach
ing trial. Sheha given herself lit
tie care during the interim. The
very comfortable fortune she had
when convicted has been increased
by her own well directed specula-
tions, by more than Sl50,000; be-
sides which, during her imprison-
ment she has waged interminable
and successful lawsuits and written
book or two.
At the close of one of Mrs. Swiss
helms orations, she asked if any
male citizen was present who was
opposed to womVn suffrage: if so,
she would like to have him stand
surprise OF nearly every one pres
ent, the seriOus-minded chaplain of
the Ohio penitentiary rose. Some
one limited TO Mrs. Swisshelm his
calling and position, when Mrs.
Swisshelm inquired if he had any
women in the penitenIiary. Eyes"
responded the chaplain, eve have
| twelve, and they take more trouble
than the nine hundred men"
a touching story of faithful love
comes from Philadelphia. A beau
tiful young girl became engaged in
1861 TO gallant officer in the Union
army. At the close of the war he
went to California to seek his for
tune. She waited patiently for his
return, feeling confident that he
would yet come back to her. So
the years passed; gray hairs began
to show themselves in her brown
tresses, her friends no longer ridi-
culed her, but pitied her as mono
maniac. Last week her fidelity
was rewarded. The lover of her
girlhood returned from California,
bronzed and bearded, millionaire
with u wife and twins.
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