The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-12-24
A. out Women.

A contemporary tells the ladies that they must
take heart" That's just what they have been
doing for ages.
An Omaha girl introduced a romantic mode of
suicide She stuffed her lovers letters down her
throat until she suIocated.
indianapolis boasts of a servant girl who has
lived in one family twenty-five months and has
been outside the gate only once.
A Lewisburg (Ark.) editor claims that his
town Is the home of lady who has shed tears
at the graves of ten departed husbands.
Love induced Louisville girl to throw tobacco
in her fathers eyes so that her lover might have
time to get her into his wagon for elopemen:.
One young lady at Saratoga creates sensation
by wearing diamond buckles in her shoes. She
is awfuIy careful about holding her dress up when
the walking is wet or dirty.
The latest. instances afforded by a a fond
mother" Of her sons cleverness is said sons cor
recting her for saying be was all over dirt. He
said the dirt was all over him.
An Ohio woman lately travelled with one ticket
dog, umbrella, jug of milk lunch-basket, paper
sack full of peaches, and boy of fifteen, whose
age she gave at nine.
Sewell County, Kansas, boasts of girl only l6
years of age who last summer herded sixty head
Of cattle, and made three aprons and FIVE dresses
on horseback, and taught two children their let
ters in her idle mo ments
4" Men are what Women make Them" is the
singular title of a new book 1t may be true,
but we have seen some dreadfully poor specimens
Of the manufactured article which reflects badly
upon the material or maker.
A LITTLE WARN" 1 thought you were born
on the first of April, said husband to his lovely
wife, who had mentioned the 2lst as her birth
day. " Most people would think so, from the
choice l made Of husband" she replied.
Cannot something be done to prevent young
ladies from being nsulted at night ?" asks a Gin
cinnati paper. There can. J ust have the girls
mother tuck her into her little bed about eight
o'clock in the evening and lock the door on her.
A wife was enjoined by the doctor to give her
there was no possibility of bis recovery. mo
prospect of his recovery y said the loving spouse:
then what's the use of wasting dainty bits upon
him if they won't cure him."
An Oakland woman was puzzled to know why
she had attracted such general attention during
shopping the other day An hour or two earlier
she had been down street." and returning had
taken of her over-skirt" F" but left the bundle of
papers forming the hustle still in position.
A RAINY DAYS WoRK.-A lady who wanted
needles on a rainy day when it was too wet to
60 out for them, bethought herself of investiga-
ting her pn-cushions. The search became sue
cessful and interesting, and on going through her
stock she had Al needles. Certainly it was no
needless search.
Another successful woman has recently come
to the surface, Mrs. L. A. Boreland, of Texas.
This lady who is now in St. Louis, owns about
1000 head of cattle, and accompanied the herd
all the way from its starting point to the latter
city, doing at least two mems work in the way Of
driving and managing.
Miss Francis Willard is the first woman pro-
fessor Of the womans college of the Northwest
ern University, at Evanston, ILL.,, one of therules
Of which is that at least one Of the faculty shall
be woman. She occupies The chair Of ethics,
at salary of 81 800 year. with an assurance of
an annual advance of 5000 for the next two
years. Five women have been elected to the
Board Of Trustees.