Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-01-10
ABOUT WOMEN.

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The Woman's Journal warns young
girls to look out for the men who want to
make %aisters" Of them.
An old maid in Reading married q
tramp because, as she said, be smelled
just like an Italian count whom she had
once met and loved.
A Nevada girl has sued a man for
Islander for saying that q Piuts made a
tent out Of a pair Of half-worn stockings
she had thrown away.
In Idaho Territory last week a pretty
Mormon girl, only thirteen years of age,
committed suicide because her sisters
husband refused to marry her also.
A Norman wife writes from Salt Lake
to protest against Congressional legisla.
ton likely to declare her children bas-
tards and turn them and herself helpless
upon the world.
San Francisco women are going more
and more into stock speculation and are
generally very successful, as they get
points from the grea: mining operators
that male outsiders cannot obtain.
Miss Julia Pesse is going to Constan-
tinople as a missionary. Green Peasei
Half of the woman who go on such ms.
sions are put under ground before they
have a chance to do much in the convert
ing way.
Dom PiAtt, happy mani has met
somewhere in his recent travels a woman
of whom he says;
Her smile is sunlight. and her laugh
ihat sunlight sci 10 tune;
Her liz the honey bee might Quaf
AND dream Of buds in June.
There was q decided falling of in
kerosene cremation last week, our " ex-
changes reporting only eight cases, all
women. Generally there is a man or two
included in these little domestic eere-
monieS-men who happen to be standing
too near when the oil is poured on the
FIRE.
There is q poor woman in the Ken
lucky blue grass region whose family in
ereasss very rapidly Gas families are apt
to do where parents have no means Of
taking care of them properly, but they
are so exquisitely beautiful that people
Of means pay high premiums for the
privilege Of adopting them. AT last
accounts the woman in question had
parted with Eve children at an average
of $3.50 each, and had contracted for the
delivery Of three more. and not one Of
the latter is yet born.
Lady Louisa Stuart, the last descend
ant Of the Royal Stuarts, or Fitz.Allsns,
has just died in Scotland. Her death
was considerably milder thar that Of she
last Of the Plantagenets, who was also a
woman, and who, refusing to lay her
head On the block, was chased about Oh
the scaffold by the headsmsn Of that mad
ass, Henry VIII. It's much pleasanter
for a royal person to die in these days
than it used to be in the good old
times" when the masses had nothing to
say about government.
The following extract from a commu-
nication in the Chicago Tribune leads
to the conclsion that vivisectiop has
powerful charms for some Of the women
in that city: st" . " But, when a
class of women can sit for several hours
calmly watching the agonies Of a half
dozen poisoned rabbits; when a girl in
her twenties eheerfully contributes a
cat to the cause of science, because she
wants to see how the blood will look
under the microscope when it has been
poisoned; when a teacher requests her
pupils to 'prshend. any material that
may come in their way, and the lady
students declare themselves ready to so
'prshend' any pet dog or kitten that may
stray into their daily path, it would
seem that the whole question needs to
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