The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-06-10
ABOUT WOMEN.


ABOUT WOMEN.
"Are the young ladies of the present day
fl for wives?" asked a lecturer of his audi
snca. They are fis for husbands" re-
sponded a female voice; "but the trouble is
that you men are not fi6 for wives' lAp-
plause.
1t IS said that the Duchess of Manchester
has gambled away fortune CT S150,000. If
the English women are running in that line,
Minister Schenck didn't give them that
great work of his on draw poker moment
too soon.-COurier-JOur
As Red Cloud and Spotted Tail, followed
by the usual crowd that they attract, passed
along one of the streets adjacent to their
s.lodge." one day last week, one OF the fair
residents was vigorously combing her ''store
hair.D having it fastened close 70 the side OF
the window. Seeing the operation from the
other side of the street, Red Cloud suddenly
stopped, giving out several OF those pleas
ant grunts expressive of admiration and
said: White squaw take big scalp; me
ing the attention of the crowd directed to
her window, dropped the curtain and the
scene closed Washington Tribune.
The fact that the women OF this country
wear their garters below the knee induces
"The Book OF Beauty" to make this wild
and slsnderous declaration: ga handsome
leg is q rarity, we bad almost said an impos-
sibilitY, among American women" Dld
You ever2 Why. we have beheld, with
eagle glance, thousands OF legs among
American wonderland we were not an
ankle inspector during the reign of tilting-
hoous either-wbich were not Only band
some but each OF which possessed SYM
metricsl beauty and divine loneliness as
strongly marked as the curved lines OF
r.
nal.
The sweet-eirl graduates of the Louisville
schools are rather hard on Darwin, and
don't give him a bit of credit for the years
of labor and thought which he has devoted
to enlightening his fellow-beings. When
powerful thinker works tor twenty years
only to see his beautiful fabric knocked
higher than kite bya pitiess schoolgirl,
who NAV never try to do anything greater
than msrry some commonplace young
map, he may be excused tor asking II II Is
possible that we are ell to be hurled back to
she stone age every time female school
Commences"
The story Of Carrie Madden. of Oakland,
CAL, girl of II, is real love tale. She fell
desperately Ia love with her school master,
and besought him to marry her, but every
body supposed that her fancy was mere
already engaged. One night she wrote
sentimental NOTE, saying that she had been
80 erievously crossed in love that she did
nob want to live, and then hanged herself.
Now the schoCl-master admits that he had
n sincere affection tor her, and had intended
when she should become OF proper age, to
propose marriage; but he declares that he
was careful 10 hide his sentiment, and
seems to have been so hOnoraoly clrcum-
spect that the girl was heart-broken by bis
apparent indifference.
The fashion which fcrbids the widow on
marrying again TO appear at the altar In
bridal veil, says some one who evidently
knows, is derived, like macy of our Gus
toms. from medieval superstition. The
church regarded the second marriage of
woman as infiictiug stain upon her
womanhood. For this reason, while the
virgin bride stood at the altar
0ecked in all the insignia Of Yirgini'v-
white veil, flowing hair, crown (wreath),
unSlOved hand-the widow who married
again YVES allowed none of these, and was
especially required to appear at the altar
eloved. in order that her hand, which
sec md marriage was supposed to poilute,
should not touch the pure sanctihed hand OF
the reple sentative OF the church or his sacred
robes of office. This Is curious supersti-
ton, and like others of its sort, produces Its
effect upon our habits and manners long
after the cause Is forgotten.
A woman named Elizabeth Taylor APP
peared before the Warrington bench OF mag
istrates in England the other day, on a
charge OF being drunk and disorderly. She
appeared in the dock in male attire, and
the chief constable in detailing some of her
aniecederf-, stated that scessas tae caugh-
ter of gsnliaInsn who fcrme lY lived al
Psnkesh. noar Warrington she bad been
married, but her bu sbsnd was killed twenty
wears $40 Shs commenced TO wear male at
tire thiftseu years ago, was employed as a
sailor during the American war, and made
several trips from South Wales TO the Ameri
can coast, in order to supply the Alabama
aud blockade runners with coal. She was
known by thsname of Happy Ned and Navey
Ned, and for some time past had worked as
alaborer or several farms in the neighbor-
hood of Warrington, having so late as the
18th ult. helped TO kill thirteen pigs for a
farmer at Croft House. She was hLed 0s.
zand costs.