Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-01
ABOUT WOMEN.

Deu Hldu III EHCAASiu, ~" ~J
ago.
A clergyman Of Laurel, Virginia,
is about being tried for whipping
his wife.
Miss Susan f.. Dickinson, a sister
of Anna E., is about TO enter the
lecture field.
There is a man in Chicago who
has lived with one wife ten years
without a harsh word or a saucepan
ever having passed between them.
A woman at Lowell, Massachus-
etts, who weighs 39l pounds, is
running the hack business in that
place.
A Missouri judge has decided
that a woman is not an old maid
until she Is thirty five years old,
and all the women are singing
songs in his praise.
Mrs. Barbara Dehart died lately
in Pennsylvania. She left an i'm
mediate posterity of one hundred
and twenty-nine persons-and she
was blind at that
A Man in Washington county,
Tennessee, has n COW which has
given, by accurate weight, 2,040-
~ pounds Of milk in thirty days.
She is an Ayrshire breed, and the
smallest amount given in one day
was fifty seven pounds.
Don't be stubborn unless you are
sure you can afford it. Right in
the midst of the late panic, an Iowa
man chose to be perverselY obsti-
nate. His daughter wanted a $50
silk dress, and he wouldn't get it,
and he lost $50 by the operation.
She took cold poison, and the fun
eral expenses were $3.50.
Mrs. Margaret Middleton died
! last week at Simsbury, Connecticut,
aged log years, 7 months and Is
DAYS. She had never worn glasses,
could always see until quite recent
" to thread the finest needle, new
er had gray hair in her head, and
never but once before her last i'll
ness had a physicians attendance.
The Henderson (Ky.) News:is re-
sponsible for the following delicious
morsel: Authentic extract from a
bona fde love letter found in Hop
kinsville the other day: 81 dreamed
the other night that we were mar.
ried, and 1 thought an hour after
wards 1 felt sleepy and laid my head
on your shoulder, and you put youl
arms around me and whispered
sweetly in my ear, saying: my
dear darling, are you sleepy?
said l was. You kissed me and il
killed me too dead to skin"
Everybody will have a feeling
of respect for the brave Rhode
Island girl who, being about to
c,radnafa at a seminar last week
Z e. used to accept the appointment
% valedictorian because she
od.15a,, stand the expense of such O
5r.ss az an, would be expected to
1v W ar Her "eply to the remon
STRANGE was. Il I, an not AFFORD the
dress; I shall, in all probability
never have occasion to wear Il
after L leave school, / n>'eu 4ook'
and other helps to future culture
and 1 must choose between th'
books and the dress, choose the
books And so some other gin OF
less scholastic merit delivered the
valedictory.
AS a rule, the whole tone of home
depends upon the woman at the
head of it; the average home, mo-
the poverty-stricken home nor the
wealthy home. In this average
home, whether sunshine shall entel
the rooms, whether the table shall
be invitingly spread, whether
bright lights and bright fires shall
give warmth and cheer on wintel
nights-whether, in brief, the home
shall be an agreeable or disagree
able place is usually what the WO
man determines. Men are power
less in tho matter. Some tinC
solaee for a dismal home in study
some, occupation in business; some
submit with what patience the.
can; others are attracted by tbs
cheer of the public house; and it 4
especially young men; who are apt
in consequence, to DRIFT into ba'
company and bad habits.
A SOLEMN SPHERE FOR WOMEN
The duties of an undertaken ar
not arduous, nor is any extraordl
nary amount of talent required Il
make the business a success. An
it is the kind ofwork that q woma
can easily perform. The details o
; it are so simple that it should nc
longer be a monopoly. The oceI
patton may be objected to on tt'
ground that it is an exceptional,
! sad one; but people soon get aecus
| toned to any regular task if 1T
remunerativc, and follow it wit
zeal if it pays well. 1t certainly
not cheerful UalIinS, but it ia on
that must exist, and one that wi
I not be governed by any Of the huC
] tuations and changes that atfe'
= other kinds of business. As
\ means of support it ID always sur
4 Then why not let women have
chance in it to build up = busineI
which may be good or bad, just {
IS she determines to make it?-BroOl
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