Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-25
ABOUT WOMEN.

Three newspapers in Iowa are
edited by ladies, and are as full OF
puffs as their dinner dresses.
No club-handled parasols next
summer, but pretty, useless, little
sun-shades, covered with cluny
lace.
A party of school girls out for a
walk in Pittsburg the other day
alarmed all the saloon-koepers on
their rouJe, who thought toe pray
ing band was coming and shut up
their shops.
did you execute this instru-
ment without fear or compulsion
from your husbandP blandly asked
the Judge. 'Fearl CompulsiOnl-
He compel mel You don't know
me, Judge
The young ladies Of Sacramento,
California, have secret detective
society for finding out the habits
of the young men. Every unmar-
ried lady in the place is a member,
of course.
The young women Of Salem, Or
egon, have formed themselves into
a society 10 investigate the charac.
ter and habits of the young men in
the town. The young men, how
ever, have also organized, and have
resolved not 70 associate with any
young woman who ehews gum or
telks too much.
Miss MagdAlen Hayden recently
made q public profession Of the Mo-
sale religion, in Bridgeport, Conn. +,
and received as Jewess, the name
of Miriam Deborah. She was mar
ried Immediately afterward to Mr..
George Sehluman, OF New York.
Artificial flowers, sewed on a
wide band of black velvet, arc
worn about the throat by the FASH
ionable bellies as a necklace.
The annual convention of the
National Women's Suffrage Asso-
citation will be held in Irving Hall,
New York, on the 18th and 18th of
May.
The new boot in Paris is the
Pompeian. II is of black velvet,
and very high, the logging in front
all Venetian cut-work, embroider
cd with silver cord, and a pink or
Pompeian red silk stocking is thas
seen through the open clover or di-
amond-shaped design.
Florence Nightingale, Harriet
MartineaU, and many other women,
have signed an address TO Mr.. Dis
raeli, urging his influence in favor
of women suffrage.
The American Register, of Paris,
Informs US that dancing is going
out of fashion in EurcIe, and says:
If men and women could fiirt as
conveniently and as pleasantly with
out its protection, it would be Civ
en- up altogether in civilized coun-
tries.
Rev. G. W. Field, Of Bangor, is
said to have created quite q sensa-
ton, Sunday, by telling tho ladies
of his congregation that they had
better reform some Of their fOllies
in dress before undertaking TO make
angels of beer drinkers.
Why do not the ladies, now that
decorating rooms with artificial
flowers has become fashionable, a,
dopt the pretty device of fastening
sprays of blossoms and leaves on
lace curtains, and in the lace on toi-
let tables? The effect is excellent.
1T is an exploded theory says
one who speaks with knowledge,
that women dress to please the
men They dress to please or spite
each other. Any girl of sense and
experience knows that 1t is as easy
to break q mans heart in a 50 mus
lin, neatly made up, as it is in a
$500 silk costume made by a man
dressmaker.' It's, in fact, a great
deal easier. The natural charm Of
a young girl is often destroyed by
excessive dressing. Men like taste
full and not extravagant toilets; and
the rivalry in dress among women
is not to catch a beau, but TO morti-
fly an enemy.