Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-05-02
ABOUT WOMEN.

The mulberry flowers came dropping down
Sweet over the two that stood together.
Parting there by the gateway brown,
sun and sad IN the sOft May weather,
He held her close for last, long kiss
an wait for you, DEAR" she said. "for-
ever;
No later hour shall be false 70 this;
For mine is a love that can alter neveri.
The mulberry flowers drop down once more
Sweet over the two that stand together;
But not the two that stood before,
Parting sad in the son May weather!
For the earth has changed IT. bloom again,
And the love has changed that could al
ter never,
But year come and gone since thenl
And that is the length Of a girls forever.
The smallest women look hopefully
to hymen.
B9ack viii continue in favor for the
day costumes. but il viii be less worn
/ at night than heretofore.
Invisible purple gloves are worn by
| ladies in mourning, IN preference to
the dead black gloves that are apt to
crack.
Let all the spinsters be happy; they
are never without two good beaux at
least, provided they use them we'll
their elbows.
Last falls, bonnets that have been
several times sat upon, or that have
been in railroad smash-up, are most
recherche and desirable.
An elegant toilette in Paris costs
| from 700 TO 1000 francs, although
very handsome costumes may be pro-
cured at 400 and 500 francs.
Seven young ladies in Waupan,
Wisconsin, lately jumped for a silver
medal They wore loose trousers, and
Sarah Jane Smith conquered.
Brotherly love is not the only knid
they cultivate in Philadelphia. For
10, 762 fond hearts were made to beat
as 1881 in that city last year.
Z Black alpacas Of the buffalo, beaver,
otter and sable brands are mere pop
ular this season than for several years
past. One dollar and half a yard is
charged.
The size of parasOls is much in
creased and far more decided than
heretofore. Very handsome, change
able serge silk ones, with fancy pearl
handles, sell for SO, 81, and IS.
Floral ornaments were never more
varied. Whole nosegays are worn on
the head: beetles, flies, butterflies,
and birds are less fashionable than
tufts of daffodils, primroses, wall
flowers, and Parma viOlets.
Handkerchiefs are nearly all made
with fancy borders. But few Of the
plain v hite ones are seen, while those
not embroidered are finished in all
the fancy colors used for other spring
and summer goods.
Chignons are worn in Virginia as
life-preservers. At least one Of these |
atrocities was carried away from a |
young lady the other day by an eagle,
while the head was left in q state of |
nature by the ungallant bird.
s'One cent was a Scranton clergy
mans fee for performing the marriage /
day." The friends hope that the Off
clating minister will prove as one sent
from God to the bride and groom
A Kennebunk, Me-, man, who as
saulted his wife with intent to kill,
was fined SO. And yet II he had
failed to marry her after having prom
ised to do so she would probably have
collected several thousand dollars
damages.
An old lady who had insisted on her
minister's praying for rain, had her
cabbages cut up by a hail-storm, and
on viewing the wreck remarked that
she ''never knew him TO undertake
anything without overriding the mat
ter"
a Young man in Williamsburg, Pa,
went out to the country to complete
arrangements with his girl for get
ting married, but the canal bridge
broke down and ducked him. He
turned around and went home, and
has not mentioned it since.
For escorting home from singing
school maiden twice his own age,
an Iowa boy was forced to turn a
grindstone sixteen consecutive hours.
And for the fun the boys father got
out of this part Of the performance
the court invited him to deposit $40.
An alleged lunatic was consigned to
an asylum by his wife and friends. A
gentleman said to a lady who doubt
ed the victims insanity: "What do
you think, madam, of his lying on his
back in the barn-yard, and permitting
hens to feed of his body2'' "Why,
nothing MORE" responded the lady,
ethan that like many other married
men, he was hen-pecked."
Chatelaines for parasOls, fans, etc,
are become articles of expensive lux
ury. They consist, usually, OF short
chains of ivory, mother of pearl, or
oxvdized silver, furnished on the low
er rings with hooks which serve for
holding the articles to be carried.
Generally a medallion pin or rosette
of the same material as the chain is
caught in the belt, while clasp or
hook secures it there.
The Love-Philter of the Greeks
was. as its name implies, love-po-
tion. and since ''all is fair in love and
war" it was looked on as a recognized
weapon not only to be used, but also
TO be guarded against. Hence arose
the custom of applying counter
charms, which, when employed with
the cabalistic songs prescribed for the
occasion, we're sure of success, unless
a more powerful one of the order
should couuteract the spells of the
officiating witch. The ingredients
mingled in a love-potiOn were such
that it may well have tasked the gal
lantry of a reluctant lover TO accept
the proffered cup. Some of the COM
ponents most IN favor were the bones
of toads and snakes, portion of the
forehead of a newborn foal, called
srhippomanes," the feathers Of night
hawk, the blood of doves, bones torn
from the mouths of famishiDg dogs,
and the strands of the rope with
which q man had hanged himself.
a table is Just published showing
the relative strength of the Episcopal
Church in the several diOceses, in the
900, 1872 Tavas shows the largest /