Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1875-04-17
ABOUT WOMEN.

! y new social philosopher says tn,
art OF flirting is in its infancy. 1
VIII be = sad day when the thing i
grown NGp.
y spruce gum famine is threafen
in Massachusetts,, and Boston girl
are saving uP' their old India-rubbel
shoes.
A woman in Warrington. who got q
divorca from her husband in Decem.
Der, has alre1dy repeirs-,d and maissied
him again.
A crusty bacheior's objection -TIaA
dies with beautiful teeth is inat
nine out Of them would lAufh AZ q
funeral.
Miss Molke Alien, of Napa, Cal. is
so expert with her rifle that her 'Seard-
ed opponents recently ruled her out Of
a shoOting-match.
Mrs. BHbkius says she is yerg Sad
chignons have gone out OF iash4on,
because now every topnot wlii
have to stand upon its own bottom
4 bcreaved female, who has read
averv word OF the testimony, and
lost her faith in mankind, peusely
observes, "It's a real comfort % be q
widow now.'
An exchange intclligently observes
that .'tho American female has a great
deal o make her what she is" She
also appears to have a great deal to
make her what she isn't.
Thompson is not going to ask any
more c0nuudrums. He recently ask
ed his wife the difference between his
head and a hogs head, and she said
there was none lie says that is not
the right answer.
A Young mau of Troy, aged twenty
two years, soft soaped his washerwo-
man, aged fifty years, secretly married
her, aud then disappeared with all her
savings.
At PATHS last appearance in st.
Petersburg, the audience cheered her
for fifteen minutes by the clock with
ont cessation, aud she had to call the
tenor and the baritone to Lelp her
collect the ''flOral tributes"
Sarah Felix, a sister of the famous
actress Rachel, Is a perfume maker in
Paris. She keeps fresh flowers con-
stantly on the grave of the great
tragedieune. Leah Felix. another
and younger sister, is rapidly making
a reputation on the stage.
A Keokuk man Leld a neighbor's
wife in bis lap while she did up his
hair in curl-papers. The husband
attended the funeral, aud when the
minister had flushed speaking
he stepped up to the holy man and
said, in a low-swect voice, Il didn't
mind him 50 much. because there
wasn't no harm in him nohow: but /
thought - thiSgs was gettin' from
bad tD worse, and--well, wanted
to give thon-pEcaeher chaps a warn
in"
At large dinn9r party, recently,
the cool weather had done considera-
ble duty in supplying conversation,
when a plump. happy-looking married
woman made a remark about cold
feet surely" said a lady opposite,
Mrs --, are you troubled with cold
feet?" Amid au awful pause she
naively answered.: Eyes. indeed, 1
am very much troubled but then
they are not my own" Her husband
hlushed sclIle;.
Old Blifkin's young wife happened
to meet the old gent on back street
a few days ago just in time to see a
pretty woman throw a kiss at him
from a q half open door, and as she
collared him and demanded an expla-
nation, he exclaimed: "Were it not
for the other hearts that wonld ache,
my dear, 1 would tell you all. Do
not reproach nc for what I have
done lest / smite thee with a blazing
sword" Aud she went home IN a
brown study, trustiugly believing
in him, while Blif slid down town
and set 'em up for all the boys he
could find.
The SECRET OF THE SOCIAL QUEENS.
i have often wondered at the singu-
lar influence possessed by some wo-
meu; and | have always found that
they were women who looked up to
themselves-not necessarily brilliant
persons, not necessarily witty, but
original (Of course, a person is origi-
nal who takes great pains to form his
or her own COnviCtiun>); and then, as
most women are very sympathetic,
this combination Of originality and
sympathy makes them the most
charming compauions-more charm
ing, of course, than men of the like
self-respecuDg nature because such
men NAV not be sympathetic, whereas
the women are nearly sure TO be so.
Y ou may depend upon it that CleOpa-
ira not only sympathized with An
thuny, but had ideas and views of her
own which greatly interested and
tracted him. And so with the
great LADIES' in France who ruled
certain sections Of society. You may
take it for granted that they were
women who looked up to themselves.
We have had fewer of such women
in Eugland-that is, ostensibly; but
yCu will find that in most circles,
even in remote county places, there
are women of the kind / mean, who
have immense power in the form of
influence Social Pressure" by Sir
Arthur Helps.
Mr. T. W. Higginson believes in
imagination. and that women excel
IN that high province Of mind. He
says: 81 rejoice that Ia women, at
least, shere, as III Germany, the imagin-
atiye faculty still retains its hold. l
remember that when Nfr Emerson
was lecturiug in Boston. many years
ago, an eminent lawyer declined going
to hear him on the ground that Mr..
Emerson was so hard to comprehend:
'bu', h added, my i lighters under
stand him and they 60 The remark
was generally quoted by the LAWYERS
adm rers as good satire and by Mr.
Emersgn's admirers as good praise.
Let any one notice in our high
schools, where boys and girls recite
together, which sex cares the most
about lIteratures; and he will find
that If literature is Of any value, the
preference affords grounds on which
the intellect of women may be defend
ed. Cotton Mather says that Arius
supported his blasphemit by first
converting five hundred virgins
thereunto; and mcst Of our poets have
first won their way by eRlisting an
admiTIng constituency of women.
The Imaginative disposition is then.
have not criticized as profoundly and
created as graudly, even in literature
and art as men, it IS owing to other
causes, often expounded aud forming
part of the general intellectual DIS
couragcment under which they have
labOred. Woman has at last fought
her way into the field of fiction aud
now stands al its head, both in guam
tity and durability of work; but it is
true, even here, that she has fought
her way through sneers and discour-
agement. Il is significant fact that
the two greatest living masters of
fiction are women who have found it
for their advantage to write under the
names of men-George Eliot and
George Sand"