Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-09-05
ABOUT WOMEN.

are prOYlQcu IOf YlsltOFs.
The excuse of a young lady TO her
minister who caught her mapping was,
"Dou't you think ladies had better be
fast asleep than fast awake?'
What sublime courage was that dis
| played by the Nevada woman, who,
when the steaIthy savage approached
her, just pulled off her hair and gave
it himl
A discharged female treasury clerk
says to her fellow-sufferers: ""Take
courage, ''fainting" sisters; govern
ment dish-w ashing IS q most degrad-
ing service for women of ability"
This is said to be the time when the
Boston woman visits the suburban
cemetery. There she sits her down
beneath the weeping willow, to think
of the the absent ones and worms.
"Look ere now, Garusha," yelled
| a Missouri woman to the oldest girl,
"don't bend over that well so fur.
You'll fall in there one of these days,
and then well have to carry water!"
Some women get up a reputation
for amiability by taking a little boy
into the omnibus with them and max
ing him stand up and give his seat to
somebody about twenty times during
the trip.
The Woman's Journal is in great
glee at having discovered a young
fellow in Saratoga who changes his
costume three times a day before
II NJ. GAS bad as the girls!" the wo-
men ali exclaim.
A young woman at Trenton, who
was sleeping with her feet hanging
out of the chamber window, was
struck by lightning and almost torn
to pieces. The other Trenton women
have taken their legs in.
A lady was examining an applicant
for the Office of maid-of-all-work,
when she Intercepted her as follows:
'eWeH, Mary can you scour tinware
with alacrity ~ "No, ma'am, 1 al
ways scour it with sand"
Chicago women are cool. When a
husband is brought home dead his
wife doesn't utter a single howl until
she has searched his pockets and sat
isfied herself that he hadn't any
letters from any other women, then
she gives way to her grief.
The New York Times remark that
the elevation of women is a very ex-
cellent aspiration, but let the work
begin where it IS most needed, the
great body of hard working women,
who are barely able to obtain sus-
tenance from the means that are
within their reach.
It is a remarkable fact that woman
can not contemplate the possibility
of an invocation upon the accepted
laws of fashion without inviting the
intangible backing and suppOsitious
moral support of convention" to
give countenance to her daring effort.
N. Y. Graphic,
The attachment of some ladies to
their lap-dogs amounts, in Some in
stances, to infatuation. An ill-tem-
male visitors leg, his mistress thus
expressed her compassion: "Poor
little dear creature! 1 hope it will not
make him sick!"
A female stock-drover recently APP
peared in Pittsburg having in charge
two carloads of cattle. She was
from Cynthiana, KY, and recently as
sumed the management of q 400-acre
farm on the death of her husband.
The cattle were raised by herself,
and it was her first trip in the bust
ness.
A San Francisco lady, the wife of
prominent stOck-broker, ON a visit to
Santa Cruz, Cal, has made herself
conspicuous by wearing a hideous
looking mask of chamois leather. 1t
is said she thus envelopes her face to
save a singularly beautiful complex
ion. She is alluded to in town as
''the woman in the yellow mask"
A Woman named Betsey Letherton
is now living at Tring, England, who
has reached the extraordinary age of
Ill years. During the harvest last
year she cut several sheaves of wheat,
and intends, if all is well, making her
appearance in the harvest field this
year upon the farm of Mr.. Mead, sit
uated between Tring and Little
Tring.
Laura Berry fell fainting in the
school room at Carson, Nevada, re-
Gently. She had within three weeks
committed to memory 300 pages of
history and 200 of natural philosophy.
The night before she and classmate
had not gone to bed at all, but studied
through the night and until 8 that
morning. That was all the reason
she tainted.
An experienced Western editor pays
a high compliment to the fair patrons
of the press: Women" he says,
''are the best subscribers in the world
to newspapers, magazines, &c, We
have been editor for forty years, and
have never lost a dollar by female
subscribers. They seem to make it a
point of conscientious duty to pay the
preacher and the printer-two classes
of the community that suffer more by
bad pay and no pay at all than all the
rest put together"
The ladies appear to have been even
more enthusiastic than the men when
Goldsmith Maid made her astonishing
time at Saratoga. Agentleman states
that on turning around he saw we-
man near him waving her handker-
chief with all her might; but on look
ing down he saw her baby lying at her
feet and beginning to cry. Madame"
said he, ''your child" pointing to it.
"Oh," said she, at forgot all about
baby, but it makes no differenceJI ex-
pect to have several babies, but [
never expect to see another Goldsmith
Maid"
Middle-aged young ladies are look