Union and American. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1875-1877, 1876-01-06

Brooklyn wife to her scolding hus-
bind MS she dashed a pitcher Of ice
water over his head.
STATISTICS are given to prove
that Of the sum total of human
misery, physical and mental, wo,
man have to bear two-thirds.
STORE girls all over the country
are taking a firm stand on the sit
down question. They have the
symphaty of the general public.
MISS T.. Z. TowNLEY has recently
been preaching in Wallingford,
Conn, and a Moody and Sankey
revival, on a small scale, has crown
ed her efforts.
WHAT with stocking.darners,
knitting and sewing machines, APP
ple-parers, washers and wringers,
woman as 4 necessity is fading from
the face OF the earth.
A BEAUTIFUL and aristocratic
Louisville girl of seventeen smokes
a short, black clay pipe filled with
the strongest plug tobacco. She
was born with d love of the weed.
and the habit has steadily grown
upon her.
In Newark the other day q fash
ionable mother said to the family
physician in th4 presence of her
three giggling, frivolous daughters;
Doctor how can we improve our
girls?' "By improving the moth
'ers," was the gruif reply.
A WISE y lady gives the follow
ing advice L. girls engaged in look
ing up husbands: Look or. for
physical health and beatty for the
sake of the race. Do not bestow
a glance on the lean, dyspepSic, ca
daverous biped shun him as you
would II pestIlence."
THE women want to use about
two thirds of the space covered by
the Centennial buildings for the ex-
hibition of specimens of female
clothing worn during the last cen
tury, but the commissioners are OBJ
durate, and the ladies declare that
the whole Centennial scheme is
bound to fail.
THERE seems to be much suffer
ing this winter among the genteel
poverty stricken women in Wash
ington. A few days ago two ladies,
defendants of three of the most
distinguished men whose names
are interviewer with the history of
this country, where turned out of
their homes in that city for non
payment of rent.
MARY MURDOCH MASON divides
her sex into three classes-the gid
dy butterflies, the busy bees and
the women's Fighters. The first
wear long trailing dresses and
smile at you while Waiting; the
second wear aprons AMI give you
apple dumplings; and the third
want your manly prerogatives, your
dress. coat, your money and your
vote. r,yt vF
Mrs. j. W. STow, of San Fran.
cisco, writes to the Womaa'S
journal, to say that, having made
the subject her study, she is forced
to the conclusion hat the feeling
exists among wives that husbands,
as a rule, do, in ninety nine cases
ont of a hundred, desire the phys.
ical rather thar the mental, and
that this consciousness is most hu.
initiating. The fact, she adds, be-
comes so painfully palpable, if the
wife is for q long time an invalid,
that but few can doubt it,
CALIFORNIA comes to the front
with a couple Of remarkable girls
and the country is challenged to
produce their equals. They are
the Misses Purdy, Of Long Valley.
Besides being posted in all that
pertains to dress they a and
do often harness and drive horses
of their own breaking, and in
cases of emergency, mount the
reaper and draw as steady a line
over a pair of colts as the best
among the so.called lords of crea-
ton. This year they are IN the
potato business on y small scalea
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