The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1875-08-24
About Women.

Ouida is tow-headed. This might easily have
been inferred from her novels, for she is always
telling how amber lights play about in beau
tiful way; but this mere assumption is now
confirmed positively by Paris correspondent.
Ruskin says somewhere that "highy- bred
and trained English, French, Austrian or Ital-
ian lady is great production. better produc-
ton than most statues being beautifully colored
as well as shaped, and plus all the brains; a
glorious thing to look at, wonderful thing to
talk to. and you cannot have it any more than
pyramid or church but by sacrifice of much
contributed life''
A little girl up in Gallon has developed parts
as dentist. She tied string to her little
brothers tooth, tied the other end to the stove
leg, and then touched a red-hot coal to the
little victims nose. The tooth came out
A young man in Great Darlington, Mass,
couldn't get mp courage enough to pop the
question" to his girl, and SO sent his offer by
mail He got postal card in reply, briefly
saying: Fetch on your preacher" She doesn't
seem to have lacked confidence.
The sensation at v atch Hill, this season, is
remarkable lady swimmer, Miss Maria
Audubon, granddaughter of the great natural
list, who was taught to swim by her father
almost before she could walk, and who now
ventures out to sea far beyond the most adven-
turous man in the place.
An American woman is called by the London
Hornet, an exaggerated Parisian.'' She fur
nishes most of the models for those charming
cartoons which weekly appear in the Vie de
Parisienne. She is shown there dancing, skat-
ing, riding, flirting 1t is Americans who are
taxed with having invented extravaganza dresses
and with having set aside every notion of taste
and elegance. 1t is they who are said to have
first introduced the absurd high chgnons, and
the still more absurd hats which crown the
chignons. 1t is they who are reproached with
wearing in their ears locomotives, steamers,
omnibuses, jockeys, etc. ''For,' innocently
adds the plaintiff, 'who could have imagined
such atrocities, if not Amercans?'' One great
quality, however, is allowed to American girls.
They stick to each other. They do not pull
each other to pieces as other women do. They
are also considered to be irresistibly cheerful,
frank and free.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has not, like
most of her sex, that antipathy to the Free
masons which is generated by the secrecy of
their proceedings. She has, on the contrary
recognized the charitable disposition of the
craft, and is going to work with them for thu
common good. In return for a present of
''chairs of..order," to the lodge which bears her
name, she is to be invited to a banquet; and
this, we are assured, will be the first occasion
in England on which lady has been present
when lodge furniture as such will be used
Miss de Vergas, says Calcutta paper, wishes
to be married-nothing very extraordinary in
that-but the manner in which she proposes to
accomplish her design is curious. Dona Pepa
de Vergas offers herself as the prize of lottery
for the sum of one lac of 100000 rupees, upon
the following conditions: Q)Twenty-two tbous-
and tickets at five rupees each. (2) The takers
of tickets are simply to send in their names, the
amount of their subscription to be collected
when the sum mentioned has been subscribed
for. (3)The lottery to take place, at date
to be hereafter announced, at tho
Town Hall, Calcutta, and to be drawn and
conducted by Miss de Vargas. az The
owner of the winning number will have the op-
ton of one of the following choices: (a) To
marry Miss de Vargas, and share with heron
the principle of community of goods-her for
tune of one lac of rupees (b) Or, in the case of
refusing the marriagethe sum of 30, 900 rupees
will be paid to him, Miss de vergas
retaining for herself $4,000 rupees
(5) Miss de Vergas reserves for her
self the right of refusing to marry the owner
Of the winning number, should he prove to be
a person she would not care to espouse. In
case the winner will be paid the sum of $4,000
rupees. She is young lady Of birth,o noble
family, well educated-she speaks Spanish,
French and a little English-clever and bril-
liant beauty.