Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-11-20
ABOUT WOMEN.

A Chicago man lately advertised TOT
wife that has got the stamps; looks anu
age no object"
Vassar girls believe in fsh diet as
good thing for the brain, and never miss
hooking any sucker who falls In their
way.
Ann Connolly, Of San Francisco, aged
seyenty-hye, has instituted suit for d.
vorce from her husband, aged seventy
three
Here is a chance for 3 huSbandless wo-
man. The Buffalo authorities have de-
cided that ne woman having husband
/ shall be accepted a school teacher.
There are only two female eab-drivsrs
/ in New York, but to hear thom yelling
! ''G'Out the way, there! % one would think
S-s1SS was hundred or more.
/ OId-nashioned sewing societies are heard
Z Of no more, but still ifa woman wants 70
gossip she can lean over the gate and have
dig ut the whole neighborhoOd without
infringing any law.
No woman cares a cent about the chang
es going on In the planets, or Is interest
ed in the question OF the next presidents
but let the dressmaker bring home her
dress with one button short and she'll
Before Mrs. Nay, of Delaware, suicided
the other day, she burned all her dresses,
cut up her sheets, gave away her jewel
~, and left nothing for the benefit Of y
second wife.
A lady correspondent, ShO assumes to
know how boys ought 20 be trained writes
as follows: "Oh, mothersI hunt out the
soft, tender, genial side OF your boys AA-
ture." Mothers often do-wtth 40 old
shoe.
The terrors of fever and agus have
driven the fair sex of Indiana to = new
dy's face shows unmistakabls signs Of
having been severely powdered, she ex-
plains il by saying that thedOctOr has re-
commended the use OF quinine powders
externally.
A pretty young lady lawyer Of Chisa-
go always declines divorce eases. Her
argument on that score is short and sweet
viz: Every woman who accepts = hus-
band should forever thereafter during
life, be compelled TO live with him, wheth-
er ugly, shabby, good, bad or indifferent.
The Boston Pilot thinks that II men
and newspapers did not let girls know
what bad is they would not do bad. Yes
one morning Adam brought In the Chico
=
stole apples, and Eve Immediately went
out and eat the pippin.
In 1870 the German women decided that
thereafter they would never use chignOns
and other French modes and fashions.-
The decision was maintained during the
war, but that once over, and the fashion
mill again started, tho German fair sex
couldn't Withstand the pressure, and a.
gain applied in the popular quarter for
bonnets and dresses. The male purIsts
OF Germany are quite beside themselves
over this feminine Eckleness.
Mrs. Dr. Chase, at a recent dre&-rs-
form convention, said: "I used to wear q
corset. took it on and felt as II would
fall TO pieces. Then | got a short dress
and some troWseFs. Oh, how delicious TO
climb fence. You could put one foot
upon the fence and then put your leg o.
yer the top rail, and then jump. That
was emancipation" One glance at the
contracted skirts now worn shows that
emancipation day" has not yet arrived
-and we are glad Of 1t.
1t takes woman to repnlse travel
ing agent sometimes. In nOighboring
village the other day 4 man called on
Mr.. {. at his place OF business, and want
ed to sell him q parlor organ. Mr.. G. net
wishing to buy, 20 get rid OF him, refsrF-
ed him to his wife. On the mans max
ing his business known to the lady, she
ask ed him if Mr.. G. sent him 10 her.
''Yes, ma am" he replied. ''Well, sir"
said Mrs. c. "you just go back and tell
him that until he can furnish me with
something besides mackerel 10 eat, can
make all the music that Is necessary
around this house." The agent conclud-
ed he couldn't sell an organ there.
The Churchman tells the story of wo-
man, but without giving her name, whe
became tired of life mainly employed in
eating, and dressing, and resolved TO de-
vote herself and her money to q nobler
purpose. At the close Of the rebellion
she went to = sandy island on the Allan
tic coast, where about two hundred per-
sons were living In poverty and ignO-
rance. and established her home there,
with the intention of bsnefttinE the In
habitsuts. She began with teaching, by
example, how to cultivate the land lusFa-
lively, and was soon initiated. Next she
established = school for the children, aud
afterward a church. Now the island 10 =
thriving region, with an industrious and
moral population, the change being the
work of one woman.
SHE HAD TEE PROOFs.-The other even
ing a Detroit joker slipped pink love
letter into the pocketo of = staid old citizen
40 lhtl Nil NllO btECCI tlT. vi
course the old citizens wife made a dive
for his overcoat pockets as she passed
through the hall, and when she had d.
gested the letter she determined TO COM
NIT suicide. While going up stairs after
her bonnet she got mad and changed her
mind. Walking into the room where he
sat, before cheerful fire, sho exclaimed
Loves you better than her own life,
ehY"
"Who-what? ?" he inquired.
"And she wants to know how that
bald-headed wife of yours Is getting A.
long, ehg"
81 really can't"
"And she wants $50 TO buy her set of
furs, does shes
"Why, Aary-Why, what are you talk
ing abOut?'
"Ohl it's come out-I'Ve got the proofs p
she shouted, making dash for his hair.
The worthy man has sworn the most
solemn oaths to his Innocence; offered to
let her employ a detective to shadow him
accounted for every hour Of his absence
during the last year, and furnished any
theories in regard 70 the letter, aRd vet
the wife coldly remarks that she ls stay
ing there solely on the children's &C
count.-Detroit Free Press.