The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-30
ABOUT WOMEN.

Charlotte Cushman is said to be so feeble
"A tn require constant assistance and SUP
port.
"The Ringtail Doves" is the rather poet
zeal name of a eulIud ladies' 'ciety in Eaton
town, Ga.
Striped gloves for ladies now. How nicely
the old STOCKINGS will work up into stylish
new mitt6ns.
Lady Burdett Coutts presented drlnkirg
feuntain and cattle trough recently to the
city of Manchester, England.
Mrs. Lizzie Rhling is a lady aeronaut who
recently made an assent at Harrisburg, Pa,
without breaking her neck
The most brilliant falsehood we know of is
that 20 the effect that Strakosch is to pay
Tietjers 81, 900 in gold every night she sings.
A woman in Huron county, Michigan.
weighing eighty-five pounds, recently gave
hiIth to 20 per cent. of her weight In twins.
1t ID hard to tell which viii bring the most
nleasaDt expression into a womsn's face-to
tsll her that her baby Is heavy or bread
light.-Essson Free Press.
1t is stated that the Philadelphia cODfec-
tioner who advertised Centennial kisses -
can't sell any. They are too old. The 10
ials are preferred by men OF taste.
The Detroit Free Press has heard that a
certain woman is writing lecture on "Wo-
mans Duties" and cruelty suggests that
her 6rst duty is to burn the manuscript.
Mrs. DIR. Mary Walker is at San Francisco,
irving TO raise funds TO establish female
blue breeshes, ruffied shirt, and short round
about, which she calls dress.
Now we know all about it. Jennie June
says the new chemixe and night dresses are
Of fine linen cambria, cut square or trimmed
square In the neck, either with Insertions
and wide ValencieDes lace. or with hand en-
broidery as fine as lace.
What, is such a thing possible nowadays9
The Princess zeneb Hemoum, daughter OF
the Khedive, died OF grief at the absence of
her husband, who had gone to Paris. But
then the poor child was only 17-young and
foolish.-Chicsgo Trib0ne.
An old woman in Bridgeport, who has
pasted nearly FIVE thousand medical reci-
pes in book duringth past forty years, has
never been sick day in her life, and she is
growing discouraged. Some people are born
TO lll-iuck, she says.
Nothing new about these pull-bsck skirts,
after all. In the reign of Edward II.
(1s0227) a monkish chronicsl records that
che ladies' wore such straight clothes they
whiting to hold them back"
In Wyoming at the last election lady
whose vote was challenged became ungoY-
ernabIy angry az tbs implied suspicion and
wept. Her escort took off his coat and
thrashed the challenger, and then the lady
wePt agsin-tears of gratitude.
Bowling and smiling she crossed the street,
With a love OF a tie-back on;
A nelOn-rind glIded from under her feet,
And then her ue-back was gone
She rose from her seat with a martyred air,
And gathered tn things she wore;
She looked like one that was viking to swear.
then she never swore.
GAS husband" says man, ''Im ever
willing to do my share about the house. NV
wife, for instance, puts up all the preserves
in the summer-it IS pleasant then; but
when cold winter comes, don't asked her
to 90 anything about them-I put them all
down alone"
The meanest man has been found in Shef-
field, Mass. He is trying to get Atty dollars
each from the fathers of number of girls o
induce him to abandon legal proceedings
against them for trying to scare him with q
iack-o'-lantern made of pumpkin, and set
on his front doorstep az night.
An important acquisition to washington
society next winter will be Countess de la
Roebefoueauld, wife Of the new secretary o
the FIelcu 1cEAN1OI. lAO AGGJ 10 OCau-
tiful aud very accomplished and a remark
ably fluent linguist. At Newport the last
few weeks tho lady's society has been very
much courted, and her visiting list has
assumed immense proportions.
The mistress Of q summer boating house
in an interior town. finding herself enc day
quite az leisure in consequence of the alb
sence Of her patrons on an excursion, re-
paired to a neighbours for chat. 81 should
think YOU would feel lonesome to have your
boarders away So" said her neighbor.
'aWall," she replied, 81 do feel kinder lone
some, but it's good lonesome. 1t seems
just as it did when was fust a wilder"
Speaking of Matilda Fletcher, the editor
ofIhe Omaha Herald says: "If some philan-
throplst would present this female humbug
with dashboard and set OF flat-irons, and
force per to put them to a practical use or
starve, he would confer a practical benefit
on this part of the Northwest" The Wash
ington Chronicle copies this, and says: "If
this gToveiing idiot. whose highest ambition
is to be a fianDel- moutbed Bourbon, and the
next to be a hzter of the sex to which bis
mother belonged, could be made to work on
q stone-pile, for his insolence, the morals Q
Omaha would be improved"
They say that the ladies now propose to
introduce style of dress sprinkled pro-
fusely with lions, tigers, psnthers, grifins,
monsters. and cbimeres dire. No matter,