Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-03-11
THE FEMININE GENDER.


Those aesthetic Boston girls call them
gentlemen" wheat cakes.
"A st. Louis belle, while in Italy had
"bust of her foot" made.
A Question for Socicty-"are our
blonde beauties the pale OF Society 2
Can ladies with enameled faces be
said to belong to polished society?
A New York personal inquiries for a
lady with blue eyes dressed in black. .
AT an Elmira, New York, funeral,
eight ladies otiiciated as pail bearers.
"Pray, madame what makes you so
sedate?' Oh, l have taken sedatlve y
The Cape Cod girls have adopted
as motto "Don't marry until you
can support husband"
The st. Lonis whisky ring included
some of the most beautiful women to
be found in the world.
Painting the lily: Getting up a Ia
dies debating club for the purpose Of
teaching the women to talk.
The Philadelphia matrons are talk
ing of getting MP a baby show in con-
nection with the Centennial Exhibition.
An Illinois man discovered the ad-
vantage of having pious wife when
she raffied her only Bible to get him
out of Jail.
If women knew their own power and
were gifted with sense sufficient to iii
rect it Alright they might rule the world
both politically and socially. ..
John Green, of Minnesota, has shot
three men for calling his sister "stub
nose" and yet public opinion in that
neighborhood is still against her nose.
a blonde girl, deserted by her lover,
silently pines away aud dies, but bru-
nette lives on to make it hell upon
earth for the man who deceives her.
Mrs. Colidiet, of San Francisco, has
started a school for the moral training
Of Chinese women, but she thinks 1T
doubtful whether she will be able to
complete the contract
An Allegheny woman was struck in
the side by a bullet fired from pistol,
and she jumped up and down, and
cried out: 81 never get new corset
that something don't happen to it right
away"
A Boston lady who lately returned
from Europe was waited upon by a
friend who had also been abroad, and
who preferred this request: "Can you
give me marquis cards l can give
you two viscounts in exchange"
tAnn, observed a housekeeper to a
hired girl, the other morning, 'as we
have entered upon the dawn cf another
century of our nations history, | guess
you had better get toothbrush OF
your own.
A girl Of the period comments thus
on Mormonism 'LIow absurd four
or five wives for one man; when the
fact is, each woman in these times
ought to have four of five husbands
! 1t would take about that number TO
support her decently.'
He was in a confidential mood when
he went home the other night on the
ferry boat, and said to the gentleman
sitting by him: I'm happish man in
New York. / donowe man shent
I'm gonehome, an if tholomans settin'
up l Il Ticker, an if she's gone to bed
III Ticker, an if she's gone to bed Ill
Ticker anyway. I'm bount have shome
fun,
Two persons, who have chosen each
other out of all the species with des-
IGN to be each others mutual comfort
and entertainment, have, in that action,
bound themselves to be good humored,
atfable, discreet, forgiving, patient and
Joyful with respect TO each others trall-
ties and pertections to the ehd OF their
lives.-.1ddis0n.
A Vermont woman broke an omni-
bus drivers nose at one blow, and she
was on her way to water-cure estab-
lishment, and supposed 10 be in dying
condition at that.
A London correspondent states that
young girl, by name Emilia Chloml,
is now being trained by Siguor Salvini,
the great Italian actor; and will shortly
appear on the stage.
There is an Irshman at st. Louis
who is in bis hundredth year and was
recently advised to take some stimulant
when he was feeling poorly, but he said
he had never drank drop Of liquor in
his life and didn't care TO begin now
for fear he might grow up TO be a
drunkard .r..r
In the United States Court at Phila-
delphia, Mr.. Newcomer, clerk OF the
Bingham House, was tried for violat-
ing the civil rights law. The prosecu-
tor was Rev. Mr.. Cook, (colored,) a
Baptist minister of Alexandria, Va,
who alleges tina. he was refused accom-
modation By Newcomer sometime ago,
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