Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-07-25
ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Observation-Disclosures
marriage with a ChicagOan is an
ounced for September.
Bird es are now wearing high
neckecI waists and long sleeves.
Agnes Strickland, the authoress,
died at London recently, aged g.
A Japanese young lady, who
| came over three years ago, bore of
| four Of the highest prizes at Wash
ingtOn seminary last week.
Mrs. stanton predicts that with
in the ne xt five years women will
be admitted to every institution Of
learning in the country.
Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd Phoenix, the
Russian diInond scandal person, il
I ksown AS :the Grand Duchesse' in
! Pari-~
Mrs WoesaA ull wants TO go be-
fore the PIynRg. nth church investi-
I eating committees. Que Prc1lctS Una! tpat
She could raise L nc ROOF OF lhat
Interesting bualdP2s.
WaAs Texas women claim to ride
on 10th sides of tbe5r morse, me
New York Herald CLAIM that an
sensible people vide ~a)> on inc
outside.
Esther Shaw, of Davenport, Iowa,
worked thirteen years DIP one
family before asking for p cent OF
pay. Needn't write for her, sAeI
dead.
Hero is what Nellie says to- Bar--
toris when she finds him as full as
tick why, AlgernOn, / do de-
clare that you are almost as bad as
PAP 1t IL useless to add that Al,
swigs FIRE water like fat-headed
Indian.
The women OF SaIt-lake City
having petitioned for a PTohibitory
law, it has been suggested that, 1T
a wife and six children may be made
wretched by a drunken husband,
how much greater must be the ag-
gregate sufferings ei six wives and
sixty children, ali belonging to one
reckless revelerY
New York physician advised a
wealthy Madison avenue father to
send his three sickly daughters to
certain locality in Now jersey
for the summer. 1t turns out sRat
the girls were suffering from wsUs
of exercise, and where they have
gone the mosquitoes will keep theiD
at work in a very lively manner,
|, both day ard night.
The Mayfield KY, Democrat says
that on last Monday a negro enter
cd the house of Mr.. Jackson, living
four miles west of Mayfeld, while
he was in the field thrashiDg wheat,
and attempted to outrage the
person of Mrs. Jackson. Sbs re
sisted, knife in hand, and the BLACK
fiend retreated. He was tracked
by the blood from u wound infict-
ed by the brave lady, but up to
Thursday morning he had not been
arrested.
Ella Johnson, of Wellesville, New
York, is the latest heroine, and a
good one, too. She awoke the
other night to find man gripping
her mother by the hair, while he
held lighted candle. Immediate
ly she fired a pistol, the fellow let
go, dropped his candle, threw up
his arms and ran, upsetting the
center table, running into the hang
ing lamp, then against tho mantle
piece and finally dropping out of
window. The business men of
Weliesvplhe have recognized Elias
pluck by presenting her with a
revolver. The police think the
burglar was hit, and that his hiding
place will be discovered.
There is fctIoay still extant in
some newspapers, which agrees to
call the wife supported person.
In even the average prosperous
household, whose ways run smooth
ly, there is question if the wise ez-
. eeutive ordering OF the hOma-0asa-
forts do not in itself fully balance
the mere lucre that supplies them.
But among mechanics and laboTing-
men, where the wife is tho unpaid
} servant, toiling for love far longer
, than she eyer could for pay, and
) often supplementing her husbands
, wages with some small earnings OF
, her own, the fiction falls. 1t is a
, partnership of labor; it should be
Of gain and loss as we'll