The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-04-05
Why We Have SO Many Old Maids.

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| Ten thousand dollars is the sum
] which the Arrca,lian, says is required
to meet the annual dress require
ments Of "a fashionable woman
Happy is the man # no not tied to
iIfashio,la 81 woman ~ mid Who is not
blessed lD,yithe, braee or two of
fashionable daughters. That the
Arcadian's estimate may not be re-
garded as an iexaggeration, it is only
necessary IS refer to the demand of
Mrs, Walker, the wife Of the Vinegar
+Bilters man, for $500 per week as ali
nony during the tendency of the d.
yorce suit brought by her husband
for, an II absolute divorce. She admit
ted having received from her hus-
band $50 per week for pin money,
that repaid household expenses, and
for her wearing apparel; also provi-
ding horses, carriages and a coach
man for her use. IN answer to her
demand it vas shown by the huss
band that she, at times, z appeared
With $4,000 worth Of jeweIry on her
person, and requiring, T as many as
thirteen or fourteen dresses a week,
|aatt l' cost 81 $500 81 $500. ''2ai7H
T This 81 course IS an extreme case,
but Il servVs II to show; Il, what extent
the y m:apia foF dress Il carried by
some aat 4 Women, and tbat. tie only res
Training Influence with. many is the
fact that their husbands : Of Il fathers
are. ! unable To crafty, thlee,. ssenseless
passion pass 81 III 5a' PERSONAL display. 'n
II IS not at all surprising, remarks
the Philadelphia Chronicle, that
young, ' men men wiz. would liketo marry,
and whose iil ncsom lei s Would ' warrant
Fscch a step if they we're but. assured
that economy wouln rule the house
shrink back alarmed at tire thought
that possibly the woman y With whom
they propose to link their fortunes
for life, might be Of this extravagant
class. The girl who desires to- mar
| ~ win do wei ia think, of this, for
We know a score Of young ytls Il men 81 who
Have Been driven driven to bachelordom by
Just such Considerations, as We g have
described les e. Oregon Caltiyaato1,r.
-WH1LE the rest off the country
has aS' been wondering, where all this
corruption is going 4tps end Mr..
/ Eautzeuhizer, Of Goshen, Indiana,
has been quietly making a chair in
which is 70 be found every one of the
following named woods: s'White oak,
shcllbark hickory, gray ash, black
walnut, hard maple, Wild cherry,
beech, woodbine, Water i Beech, crab
apple, hickory elm, northern spruce,
tamarack, FED oak. pig pig OF white
hickory, cp'rrant, spiraa, wildcurrant,
peach, sihoke ttoia e, gooscberry,
whortleberry, box elder '1t Upland
willow, elder, cottonwood, blue ash,
pc berry. = cherry, black haw, dog
wood, : witch hazel, paw paw, black
lalasr,. ,hazel, pin ,d oak, sweet oak;
sycamore, choke ok cherry, June cherry,
white thorn, quaking asp, white pine,
apple, mulberry, Hercules club, but
tcrnut, mountain ash, coffee nut,
honey locust, black locust, poplar
[bireb, black oak, swamp willow,
water ash, cedar, red elm. prickly
ash, s,,'mac,, Weeping willow. poison
sulmnEac, Norway way pine, pear coffee
bean, gum, Eastwood, sassafras,
Usage orange, Lombard poplar, silver
leaf maple, persimmop, chestnut,
horse chestnat. lilac, catalpa, arbor-
vitae, iron wood, BLACK hickory, balm
Of Gilead, soft maple, swamp oak,
wild plum, morus rnulticaulus, pine
bark, wahoo, SNOWFALL, red ,haw, red
willow, spic'esW,ood, grapevine, yellow
willow, Siberian crab, leather wood,
tame plum, japonica, burr oak, juni.
per and buckeye