Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-08
Relating to Women.
Kate Field has made volume of
"Ten Days in SPAIN"

Zen Days IN Spain"
The San Francisco ladies have
established home for the Chinese
| women.
"A New York doctor figures it
out that an average woman will shed
barrel of tears 10 forty years.
The Empress OF Austria is said
70 be the handsomest princess, and
one of the handsomest women, of
Europe.
Christine Nilsson sang at Nor
wlch (England) on the 18th and 10Th
inst, for the benefit of the Jenny
Lind Infrmary.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and
her daughter are at present guests at
the Twin Mountain house on the
White Mountains.
There are in existence up to date
twelve of the knife with which Char
lotte Corday stabbed the gentlemanly
and efficient Marat.
An Ohio belle who went to Sara
toga in hopes to find Count, came
away engaged to a man who makes
water proof backing.
The woman who became famous
by walking from Chicago to San
Francisco, has been sent to the poor
house in the latter city.
Alice and Phebe Cary were both
plain in features, though their sweet
ness of disposition added greatly to
their personal appearance.
Lydia Maria Child lives in lit
tie yellow house, is seventy-two years
old, and entertains her visitors in
cordial pretentious manner.
Mrs. Austin, of Alexandria, Va,
has lived in one neighborhood thirty
eight years and never borrowed her
neighbours fat-irons or cup of su-
gar.
The Rev. Olympia Brown, con-
sort of Mr.. Willis, gave birth to son
last week, and they are now in great
perplexity as to what its last name
shall be.
Fall flowers of French manufac>
ture are, if anything, handsomer and
more beautiful than ever. Never has
the autumn foliage been SO success
fully initiated.
Princess LOT ise's first love was
the Rer. Mr.. Duokworth, tator to
Prince Arther, who was presented to
handsome living in the country by
the Queen in very timely and grace
full manner.
The old-fashioned bodices some
what improved upon are to be trot>
ted out again next winter. This
means that small waists and tight
lacing are to become the rule again
among fashionable demoiselles.
Among the English Princesses,
Louise, wife of the Marquis of Lorne,
has displayed the largest amount of
mental capacity She is a clever
painter, and has taken prizes in the
South Kensignton Museum for her
modelling.
"A lady, returning from church,
declared that "when she saw the
shawls of those Smiths, and then tho't
of the things her own girls had to
wear, if it wasn't for the consolation
of religion she did not know what
she should do"
One of our 'young girls" at an
examination in grammar the other
day, when asked why the noun
bachelor" was singular, blushingly
answered: because it is very singu-
lar they don't get married" She
went up to the head.
Miss Nellie Glover, a daughter
of Mr.. Howard Glover, has recently
made her debut as concert singer
in New England Local critics speak
OF her in high terms, stating that she
possesses bright and powerful
voice, trained 10 the purest and best
school.
lis there any person you wish
me to marryP" said wife to dying
spous, who had been somewhat of
tyrant in his day. "Marry the
Devil, if you likel" was the gruff re-
ply. mo. | thank you, my dear,
one husband of the same family is
enough for me.
-Ruskin says, in his "Fors
Clavlgera," that every girl should be
taught "at proper age to cook all
ordinary food exquisitely )" but Lady
Barke goes step further, and says
every boy should be taught also not
to cook exquistiely, perhaps, but so
as 20 make few common dishes
palatable, as precaution for emer-
gencies.
If the lady who feels no necessi-
ty in point of income to watch ex-
penditures and the consumption of
materials, insists that there be no
waste in her house, and teaches her
servants to practice liberal thrift,
the lady who does feel the necessity
will not consider it beneath her dig
nifty to insure the same effects.
The gloom which settled down
upon Victoria's life on the death of
her husband is still felt within the
walls of Osborne Castle. His dress
ing room and library remain to-day
in the exact state they were on the
day be died Nothing has been re-
moved, nothing substituted, and this
by the express orders of the Queen.
The women OF England have got
hold of the right end of the woman
question, in taking up the subject of
domestic education, and giving it a
practical turn by establishing school
where the art and science of cooking
can be thoroughly learned by
ladies and their servants, as men
learn their trades and professions in
colleges and shops
"A young lady, in note to the