The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-15
AROUT WOMEN.

ABOUT WOMEN.
Miss Lydia Thompson will revisit Amer
lea next April.
A young lady is said to be the best mower
in Wisconsin. She scythes for fame.
Ban franklin said he could tell nice
woman by the way she kneaded her dough
The female sex are never satisfied. A
St. Louis woman has been divorced i've
times.
Palm leaf fans are becoming more popular
than any other in church, as they etfectually
hide The most elastic yawn.
Striped stockings, it is said, are poison
Gus. That is not the question, however.
Are they pretty and becoming?
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson owns an interest
in n cotton factory. receives her dividend
regularly, and doesn't want to marry.
The pull back dresses are very nice, OF
course; out it seems to us little less to Sit
down on would be vastly more comfort a.
bic.
They are going to turn the great desert OF
Sahara into an inland sea, and if you want
any sand to scour knives and forks with
you'd better hurry up.
A philosop her asserts that the reason why
ladies' teeth decay sooner than gent)emen's,
the sweetness of the lips.
1t is said that fully two-thirds OF the let
tiers which reach the dead letter office get
there because women have an insane desire
to write beautiful fine hand.
A Kansas girl says that nothing makes
her SO mad as to have grasshopper crawl
up and down her back just as her lover has
come to the proposing point.
A Chicago girl just one month married.
upon meeting an old schoolmste IN the
street. nut on a very wise look and re-
marked: "You can not imagine the labor
and anxiety incident to the care OF family"
The Young man who offers to stop drink.
ing and chewing if his girl will marry aim.
will in less than year after marriage tell
her that he sold himself for fifty cents on
the dollar. and she will reply that she paid
twenty five per cent. too high for him.
If those dresses were twice as tight they
would wear them. If it were the fashion to
carry a barrel OF -four on the back OF the
neck they would do it, or die trying. You
couldn,L devise a fashion the women would
not Ineekly follow, from no clothes in win
ter To bearskin overcoats in summer.
Florence Marryatt is what nine persons
out Of ten would style splendid woman.
She is a blonde of the pure English type,
of average height, and very fine figure.
She mas soft gray eyes and light hair, aud,
though not what can strictly be termed
beautiful. there is q nonchalant grace In her
.Inovsments and charming lnSouciaDce lu
her manner which renders her singulsrly
fascinating.
There is q widow living seven miles
northwest of Houston, Texas, with the very
anpropriate name of Mary Ann Thrift, who
makes all the shoes for her fathers family.
consisting of eight or ten persons, and not
one of them has spent dime for shoes or
boots in five wears. She also makes good
hand at cooking, washing, sewing and work.
ing in the field.
Mrs. Orphenia Teeple, widow of the late
Luke Teeple, and grandmother of
Russell Potter, Of North Guilford, died in
woodbury., Conn, on Thursday last, at the
advanced age of one hundred and three
vears. The deceased was a direct descend
ant of the Goodriches, who came over in the
Mavfioger. Her maiden name was Towner,
and she was borp in Branforc, IN that state.
The family has been noted for longevity.
Annie Thomas, one OF the most voluminous
novel writer's Of the present day, and one
who has been before the literary public of
England and America for several years, is
Annie Thomas, better known in private life
as Mrs. Pender-Cad She is a native OF
London. and is che daughter of the late Lieu |
tenant George Thomas, an officer in the royal |
navy aud lor the past eight years has been |
tne wi of the Rev. Pender Cudlip, high |
church clergyman.
y ISIS Genevieve Ward, who intends to re-
visit New York-her native city-next sea-
soa, appears 20 have made an exceptionally |
brilliant impression at the Gsiety. fheater,
Dublin, where, on the 18th of June, she
acted Medea and Portia, upon the occasion
vban the American rifle team was formally
entertained at that tbester. The Dublin
Mail states that, as Medea, Miss Ward
proved herself without peer on the British
stage; and correspondent who was present
at the performance informs us that this YER
dict is not exaggerated.