The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-08
ABOUT WOMEN.

shrew, except the poor fellow that has her.
"Unmanned by the loss of her husband"
is the latest style of indicating a widows
grief.
The ssUtica skirt, is the latest. It CON
tracts the walking powers of the pent-up
wearer.
An Illinois woman, who had walked ten
miles to see her husband hung, appeared TO
bs much affected by the spectacle
The might that slumbers in a malden's
arm is often a prophecy of some OF the most
striking experiences OF married life.
The report that the Princess of Wales was
"loosing her hearing" was only cockney
perversion. She lost an earing.-Herald.
Miss Helen NJ. Ely appears as the first
girl graduate of Minnesota University with
the anomalous degree OF Bachelor OF
Arts"
A Boston paper says manufacturers have
commenced to make oand-boxes seven
feet high in preparation for the coming
bonnet.
"Half the gross receipts is said to be Anna
Dckinson's claim when she lectures for the
advancement of women or for beneVolent
purposes.
II you want to get around Boston girl.
tell her you understand her grandfather
despise sne lie nor hate the liar.
We are asked, "Whst could have induced
ladies to adopt the 'pull-back' style of
dress7" Can't say, unless it was TO promote
taste for anatomical studies.
In the trousseau of Mile Say, lust mar
ried to the Prince de Broglie, there were
thirty complete costumes, and camePs hair
shaWls enough TO make rainbow.
Bethsheba was not bad woman at heart;
but sometimes she quarreled with Uriah,
aud he submitted TO punishment very
meekly for man who was Hit-tite.
A correspondent says the Crown Princess
of Germany looked like ga snow drop just
burst into full beauty" which, of woman
fat, fair, and forty, is highly imaginative
and fiorid description,
"Therer' exclaims the indignant Boston
wife, as she fetches her husband resonant
whack on the head with a chair rocker,
-'Ill raise a Bunker Hill monument on you
that you'll remember"
A Nebraska woman has pspered her cabin
with the report of the Bsecher trial; and
now she makes washing-day shorter, and
causes time to fly while at her knitting, by
perusing the cheerful pages on the wall.
The Centennial commissioners, desiring
TO saw a word occasionally at the E1posItion,
are encouraging the Philadelphia ladies to
erect a building at some distance from the
main part, exclusively for their own use.
A schoolmaster attempted to fog Ra-
cine girl the other day, but she just ripped
off half dozen ribs OF her hoop skirt, and
slashed him around until he couldn't spell
Constan.inople if he had to be hung for it.
Miss Selma Borg, the translator of Nine.
Schwarz's novels, has gone home to Fin
land, to lecture on the Centennial and en-
deavOr to rouse the province TO desire To
be repre- ssnted in some independent way.
Young women looking up picnic costumes
should try TO find something that will look
sweetly artless ard won't wrinkle. A wo-
man returning from one of those expedI-
tions is The ugliest creature known to civid-
ZatiOn.
The Shah of Persia has expended 100000
lately in marrying OFF, one of his daugh-
tiers. TO prevent too great an emigration
of our Young men to that country, it may
be well enough to state that she was pet
child, and that tho Shah will not give any
thing to have the rest mated.
Prayer is said to be "the SOULS sincere de-
sire" and the following petition certainly
seems to be marked by genuine feminine
sincerity:
Give me a thankful heart,
And to that end arrange
That the means may have
To lead when fashions change
Anna Dickinson refuses to reconsider her
observation-disclosures go upon the stage. Friends
have attempted to shake her resolution by
presents CT smelling bottles, toilette pow
der. French hair oil, crimping irons and
treckle washes, but her keArt is set upon
hIstrionlc fame and she is bound TO 20 it,
Washington society is stirred to its depths
because the Japanese minister's wife has a
little margin of exquisite native embroidery
about one OF her dresses that can not be
duplicated for money. She can not under
stand the bitter words spoken by the other
ladies, but she sees their envy in their looks
and is made just as happy.
Miss L. Starr has given in "Har1lya
Earned the picture of poor daily gov
erness returning to her miserable lodging
and falling asleep on chair before she has
even removed her walking attire. 1t is one
of the finest pictures in the Academy. The
coloriug is harmonious, and the idea carried |
out with studied moderation, pathetic, yet |
without exaggerated sentiment.
The Rev. Olympia Brown, who is the pastor |
of a church at Bridgeport, Conn.,, has hus-
band. and you would naturally suppose
thss MS name Is Brown, but IL isn't, for II IL /
IL Blown. be is afraid 10 say so,and calls him.
,.eIf wallis. Whom Sister Brown and Brother
Willis get 20 the gates Of paradise and at
tempt TO go in as wife and husband, 1t is TO
he feared that il will take more time for
them 10 explain things to the satisfaction OF
81. Peter than the hurry of business will
permit him to give charlottesville
Courier-Journal-
Amelia, cx-queen Of Greece, who died at
Munich a sort time ago in her fifty-seventh
wear. was married when but eighteen, to y