The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-09-06
THE FAIR SEX.

THE FAIR SEX.
RIDING habits are of black, blue
black or purplish-b ack cloths.
A NEW style of bracelets are called
the Marguerite" WHISTLES.
WIGS a la Marie Antoinette, are
rapidly coming into fashion in Paris
PINk-LINED parasols carried into
the Sunshine" give rosy flush to the
fair face beneath.
A STYLISH bonnet can be obtained
from Paris for $125. lndulgent hus-
bands will cut this out to show to their
wives.
If sweet disposition does not come
to lady by nature, it will come TO
her by express-if the express brings
her a new bonnet.
Miss Virginia Goldschmidt, Jenny
Lind's eldest daughter, a young lady
of eighteen, is said to possess as gIori-
Gus voice as her mothers ever was.
DIR. LoRING of Boston says IL he
should be candidate for Office he
doesn't know why his wife should not
vote for him. She does, probably.
ANOTHER Indiana woman last week
accomplished the rapid feat of procur-
ing divorce, a marriage license, and
fresh husband, all within eight
hours.
A WOMAN well known for her liter
airy and social accomplishments was
drunk and Keeling about the streets of
Detroit on Wednesday last.
Mrs. Mary Gray, of Greenup Co.,
is the oldest lady in Kentucky. She
has entered her Hath year, and is still
in apparent vigorous health.
THE English, believing what's sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander,
will try the cat-o'-lline-tails as means
of furnishing those who fog their
wives.
A NEW London husband advertis.
one cent reward for the return of his
eloped wife, but doesn't think it worth
while to have any one sent after her.
A KENTUCKY paper saws: "The
famous DIR. Mary Walker Esq, spent
ner youtnIuI days in manufacturing
compound cathartic pills in Breckin-
ridge County,"
ALADY in Milwaukee has just buried
her seventh husband. She is thirty
four years old, and was fresh and
charming widow last week, but is
probably married again by this time.
Bows are worn i'm profusion on the
hair, the front of dresses, the sleeves,
shoulders, and in all odd and unman-
ageable places, fastening down fichus,
scarfs, collars, sashes, belts, etc.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from
aLx- -
dens are exclusively confined here to
the servants, and really make very
serviceable scrubbing dresses and the
like. They don't show dirt.
MINNESOTA boasts of girl of eigh-
teen that, with the help of two boys,
runs farm of two hundred acres, ard
last wear put S506 in the bank. We
should like TO see those two boys re-
ceive little more credit.
A GIRL at Usage, Iowa, whose ears
are grown up, has no method of hear
ing except through her mouth. When
young man is talking she keeps say
ing yes" for fear lest he might pro-
pose to her and she not hear it.
ANOTHER lady has entered the field
as an editress. SigDorina Aurelia
Cinamo Folliere de Luna, who is like
wise an authoress of standing and
reputation, has charge of newspaper
called The COrnelid, which has lately
been established at Florence, Italy.
A NEW England advertiser wants a
"woman who fears the Lord and
weighs 200 pounds" and the editor of
the sheet in which the advertisement
appears remarks that the experience of
most men is that woman who weighs
200 pounds rarely fears the Lord or
any body else.
THE Boston Globe says, regarding
the desire of women to mount the pull
pit, that in Massachusetts half the
women think they have mission,
and do not seem to realize that they
have any work, and that there is only
one woman i'm ten i'm that State who
would not preach if she could.
The reign of white muslin tuniques
over linen underskirts is absolute.
They are pulled and edged with frills
which are equal with plain washing
tulle, thus presenting a very snowy
appearance. Black velvet ribbon is
used TO loop these downy over-gar-
ments. They arc pretty, clean and
'acgtigc.
A VIENNA correspondent divides
brides into two classes, the serious and
the smiling. The first enters with
queenly step and seems to say, "Don't
look at me; don't you see / am mar
ried, and that those days are over ?,'
The other comes up smiling, as much
as-to say, "I've landed him; is it not
good fun?"
ONE of the best things the poet, or
any of his friends, of the Breakfast
Table has said, was bit of truth the
''young woman" gave utterance to
concerning the habit of women's
minds. al suspect" she says, "we
learn from our dress-makers to shift
the costumes of our minds, and slip on
the new fashions of thinking, all the
more easily because We have been &C
customed to new styles of dressing
every season." This is a neat way out
of the habit which every observing
woman sees, and is mortified by, in
herself and friends, of jauntily borrow
ing, wearing and Haunting the opin-
ions of father, husband or brother by
turns, utterly regardless of the variance
of those opinions.