The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1873-09-17
VOL. IX,---NO. 36.}
About Women.

ture is said to have been Eve, because she was
the first mate.
One of the hardest trials Of life is to shed tesrs
at the news that your wife's great uncle had died
and left her S5OOOO
There is time for all things The time to
leave is when young lady asks you what sort of
day it is for walking.
Il am now in the honeymoon Of my widow
I hood" was the remark recently made by u young
and happy widow in Paris.
There is young lady in Yorkshire named
Price who is six feet five inches high. People
say there are women above price.
woman on marrying needs to pray for one Of
two things in her husband-the love which
blinds, or the good nature which excuses.
Ninety-seven proud mothers went of mad at
prize baby show held in New Orleans recently,
where ninety-eight specimens we're exhibited.
A Louisville woman who has lived with man
for twelve years and presented him with five
children, now sues him for breach Of promise.
+ An old lady l9l years old iately walked 200
Iowa miles in one day, chopped 10 cords of wood,
dug 80 bushels Of potatoes, and then danced all
night.
Mrs. Scott of Omaha has had FIVE husbands in
seven years, and is now without one. She is
subject TO spells of insanity, and she carries
bowie knife.
Hawthorne paid pretty compliment when he
said OF Miss Bremen that she was most amia-
bic little woman, worthy to be a maiden aunt of
the whole human race"
An experienced old stnger says, if you make
love TO a widow who has q daughter 20 years
younger than herself begin by declaring that you
thought they were sisters.
An unreasonable woman in London wants
wine merchant there. named Mcostrich, to pay
$1,000 for writing pa love letters to her aud then
cooling of 10 his rhetoric.
An old lady was admirng the beautiful picture
called Saved" Its no wonder" said She /" that
the poor child fuinted after pulling that great dog
out Of the water"
I'm not in mourning" said young lady
frankly TO a young lady querist but as the
widows are getting all the offers nowadays, we
poor girls have TO resort to artlhce."
The Pittsburgh girl has sent back those two
barges of coal which her father gave her for
bridal present, and says she guesses shecun make
ii hot enough for hubby without any outside
help.
A Troy dentist became emotionally insane
while repairing front tooth for pretty woman
and kissed her She told her husband and be |
went round and borrowed $500 Of the dentist on
long time.
They tell of one Boston mother who says Of
her baby that as it couldn't be handsome like /
its papa it's going to be good like its mama"
This is the first baby on record that is not the
pretiiest ever was-to its mother.
There are experts on all manner of subjects in
these days Of litigation: A woman testified at
Norwich the other day, in turkey case, and de-
ciared she knew these turkeys " by their walk,
their countenance, and their manner of roosting"
A young lady living at Eau Claire, Wis, dis
appeared the other day. and after 300 people had
searched for Eve hours, she was found sitting on
the bank Of the river with her lorer squeezing
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happened.
Postmaster General Cresswell has written TO
the Prussian direction Of posts on the subject of
women in Government service. Hereports seven
hundred women employed in the postal depart
ment, FIVE hundred Of whom are postmistresses of
local Offices.
Scnorita Angela Lozano wore out six men in
the City Of Mexico, recently in d competitive
examination of candidates for the vacant profes.
sOrship of English in the female college of Gale
Santa Cstarina. The victor is the first lady to
fll such position in Mexico.
Sue Mason, of Madison county, ILL.,, is des-
cribed as one of the most exquisitely besutiiul
girls in the wide world. Four young men have
drank themselves to death on Madison County
beer within the last year on her account and now
a Mrs. Gaines is trying to show that Sue is in
partnership with an Alton undertaken.
The commissioners of Tippecanoe county, Ind,
have forwarded to Gov. Hendricks petition set.
ting forth that Mrs. Samuel Smith of Iroquois
county. recently gave birth to four children at
time, and praying that such steps be taken will
secure an appropriation to the father and mother
aud to each of the children a section Of govern
ment lands.
A citizen of Utica, who felt called on to re-
monstrate with female neighbor for her severity
10 chastisng her child the other day felt called on
to close the interview, and to leave the house 10
about two minutes 1t was observed that a mop
a dust brush, two fOot-stools, pot of verbenas,
jar Of pickles and the family dog followed closely
after him.
The selfsacri6cing nature of women is well IL
lustrated in this extract from letter to West
ern paper: Il know woman who lives 10 a
country village. With heart and brain alive TO
better things she stays there and. day after day
year after year, takes care Of an idiot brother,
and for her reward has only vacant smiles and
meaningless gibberish. 1t is such half life, you
say it is vegetating you could not live 80. Well I
perhaps so. But I imagine that it is sort of
that viii bloom out gradually IN the
sunshine of second life."