Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-13
ABOUT WOMEN.

Jean Ingelow says that children
receive the love Of one generation
and pay it to another
The Detroit Free Press tells US
that Wisconsin won't let clergymen
kiss the bride any more, and fees
have jumped from fifty cents to 50.
Eastern modistes are said to be
eaptivated with the naivete of the
Arizona girls, who wear ivory
handled pistols on their chatelaines.
A Virginian is under arrest for
pawning his wife's corset for a
quart of whisky. He believed
that tight lacing would kill her.
The Boston Post knows of
Young lady who will spend the sea
son at fashionable watering place
and is not in search of her man
ifest destiny.
The Boston ladies still talk dress
reform, meanwhile investing in
summer-style atrocities, just to
show how shocking they are, you
know.
The young lady who advised her
lover to keep u stiff upper lip, DIS
couraged him from following her
advice by smiling on him too fire.
quently.
The young ladies of Hartford are
playing baseball, and adding to
their other wifely qualifications a
surprising dexterity in the use OF
the club.
A Cincinnati editor thinks that a
woman in the dress of the period
adorns the street. Yes, and as she
sweeps it, also, it is hard to see
why anybody objects to the preva-
lent fashions.
A girl in Liverpool wants to
know who has. got her young man.
She hasn't seen him since the even
inc she told him there had been
poetry in her family for several
generations.
A woman should never consent
TO be married secretly. She should
distrust a man who has any reason
10 shroud in darkness the act which
in his own estimation should be the
browning glory of his life
A North Carolina woman claims
the reverence of posterity for shed
ding her nails every month; which
as she Justly opines is much more
: remarkable than the mere shedding
|. of tears, whereon Niobe's fame ha
fioated through ever so many cen
turtles,
/ Il is not uncommon in giving ad
!. vice to newly married young ladle
who mrrry poor young men to a.
indie to tho fact that Eve married
! gardiner, but they don't say any
: thing about the gardner losing hi
situation on account OF the match.
: An exchange, that irresponsible
e source, is responsible for the state
a mcnt that the Southern gentlema
who received $4,000 from the raj
= road that killed his wife has invei
ted in another, and is continual
I planning railroad excursions &c
> his wife and two mOthers-in-law.
d The Meridian Mercury bring
,e bushes to the manly cheeks OF SCI
n on happy fathers by publicly ST.
Il ting that within an area OF te
IS miles in the southern part of Lal
derdale county, Miss, and With
the past three weeks, seven ladit
"a have been made tho happy mott
= ers of twelve babies!
~ What row the women wouI
~ make if men wore stovepipe ha
70 at concerts, lectures, and the the
70 trc. The dear creatures turr
II their heads several stories high, al
TO sit behind one of them IN pla'
of amusement is equivalent to n
O. seeing any thing that is going
up in front. No wonder the men
a. out to smile under such Affections
ms At a recent English weddin
re while the bridal party were kne'
nd ing around the chancel, t
cd Sroomsman poked the groom
Ia. the side, he laughed, the bri
ar laughed, and so did the bridesmaid
rt- and The clergyman retired in hi
lie dudgeon from the church; II o'clo
came, after which no marriages 8
performed; SO that they had to
os1 home, and spend twenty-four ho'
pa cultivating a serious frame of mil
ses That is the sweetest bell in
mt city, said Fine ear, as the vib
he lions reached his ear from a neis
Ike boring church tower. A pre-
an girl, who was passing, ackno'
ma edged the compliment with blu
lat and a languishing smile, while
Dse murmured, 'He is very bold IN
compliments for stranger; but
nice to be appreciated Fine-'
'go doesn't know TO this day why
received SO melting a smile tr
. .nt that pretty young lady.
a Yesterday morning boy san
pie tered up to yard on Eighth sire
ril- where a woman was scratching
re- bosom of the earth with a IA
md and leaning on the fence said: 4
} of You going around to the back VI
ice. after awhileP The woman S
at she didn't know; maybe she wot
ned WHY? Because the boy said
fear lust saw the cisternhd drop on
un- baby's head q minute ago,and TIL
- if YOU went round you might Iii
feet off, 1t is currently reported
nds the woman went.--buriing