National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-01-12
ITEMS ABOUT W0MEN.

Quaker gray is the color still popular anon
briues for traveli. g dresses
Embroiterv rem. rsenting ivy leaves is Il
latest, and very hands. me 1t Is.
Brigham Young is 60, ting particular; a;, ID u
doesn't want any women COM crt. over thirty Sol
10 Salt Lake.
No man is safe these times co,. vict o. SIN ~,
Sing has had notice of q breach Of pA '"'''S '-
served on him.
Tho straighten-up-M Mary Jane. and show-y.u ~
preast-pln attitude has superseded the 0feciai
bend in Peoria.
A cynical lady, rather inclined to firt, say
most men are like q cold, very easily caught, ou
very hard to get rid Of r
Paris ladies are wearing gray felt hat turned
mp on one side and with pink rose anu ioni
dropping feather as ornaments.
Detroit ladies are said to DO the most prolific II
The United States. Tho last census gave over 20
pairs Of twins and % triplets.
An Ohio lady bases her claim FOR 2 divorce OF
the ground that ono occasion her husband pa
her to soak in the rain-water barrel.
Some ladies still cling to the hustle, notwith
fashion, and it is to DO hoped will not be revived.
An old woman in Durham, England, claimi
Brigham Young as her long-lost husband. He
deserted her and came to America forty years ago
Xxi, KID gauntlsts which can be MOrn With , any
the desired number OF buttons, and cannot be de-
tected.
Ladies now have. their handkerchief hanging
u
fan. This is a temptation to thieves, who seldom
have the article themselves.
Kentucky jury has just decided that - ooO
you'd scarcely compsn.ate MIS- InP e ior pn sne
breach Of promise which deprived her Oh IN oPpor-
tunity to change her name. -...
Some people are easily satisfied. A Kentucky
lady recently had her arm amputated BY two sur
:geons Sin manner crcditaele TO the PROFESSION
and satisfactory to the patient"
Wedding cards are very plain this season, and
not distgured by gaudy, illuminated monograms
envelope is all that is necessary.
A new style of trimming black silk dresses IL
to slash the front of the skirt and waist with black
velvet, a In Hussar. A double row Of black velvet
buttons enhances the military" effect.
German women boast the best heads Of hair Of
any nation on the globe, but the italian women
have more brilliant compilations, and are Regarded
as the prettiest On the European continent.
In the Indian Territory every settler who mar
ries squaw is hereafter to be presented with
section of land. A good-looking gentleman could
gObble up the whole Territory in year or two.
A New Hampshire farmers wife fell into o we'll,
and it was four DAYS before he missed her and
made search. He said he thought the house un-
usually quiet, but he didn't know what made 1t So
The Boston Globe talks about "handsome
weather" Whereupon the Troy Wig suggests
that ''if that young man wouldn't be thinking Of
his girl all the time when he is buteherng adjec-
tives he would make good writer"
The Duchess of Aosta-the wife Of Amadeus
late Of Spain-is very i'll. When she left Madrid
in haste, she was, in travelling across Spain, ex-
posed to the cold January weather, and the seeds
of consumption were soWn, which, 1t is feared,
will prove fatal to her.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe asserts that while men
riot and revolutionise 'there is nothing but dumb
submission fer women" Which the Kingston
Freeman supplements with the sympathetic re-
mark tina: "Juiia's dumbness is one Of the most
affecting spectacles of the age" .-..
The Princeton (In.l Clarion blows . blast
about q dry goods merchant Of that town, who, in
a fit of somnambrlisln, arose from his couch,
neatly cut the bcd-quilt in two with his pocket
scissors, and then asked his terrified wife IL he
could not show her something else.
When he went for his hat at the concert the
other evening he found 200 pounds Of fascinating
femininity carefully holding 1t down IKE pile
driver in repose MADAM" said he, 'syoi are
sitting on my hat" The lady blushed, turned. |
t'Oh. beg pardon. I'm sure I thought 1t was
my husbands"
Watterson, of the Courier-JournaI, having been |
Informed that Baltimore has 16, 900 more women |
than men, says: 1--WE never go to that blessed |
city that the number and beauty Of the girls |
there don't make us long to seize a couple Of car
loads of them and fly to the bosom Of the Mormon
Church as q city Of refuge"