Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
0 THE FAIR SEX.

lucy call ladles afternoon party o
: coffee" in Milwaukee.
Dresses made Of two or three mater.
rails combined are now worn.
They have a Ladies Lager Beer Par
Tor in Boston. Boston calchahl
Femenine toilets will be decidedly mas.
culine in many details this winter.
Round lace collars, with a bit of rib
bon at the throat, are reat and pretty.
In the Japanese religion, the first hu.
man being born on earth was a woman.
Young ladies frequently wear the era
vat bow slightly toward the left shoulder.
Beetles, bugs, lizards and seipents are
now %fayorite designs for ladies' jewelry.
A lady who goes out at all" in New
York, cannot dress herself for less than
$500 a year.
Russian ladies' are always very anx-
to marry, because they have no lib
erty before marriage.
A lady should never use her husbands
professional title when she writes her
name, says the Home Journal.
Peluche grenadine is a handsome ma
terial for evening wear, and shows inter.
mixtures Of plush Oh q semi-transparent
surface.
Patti has earned 81. 800, 900 with her
voice, but when she was a child her
pawned his family clothes and
trinkets to got bread for them to eat.
Unless a skirt 10 very short it has to
be held up in walking just as much as a
demi-train, and as the latter is much
more graceful for the house it is still
vera.
In Colorado it is said that at the late
election married men voted for woman
suffrage, while single men, especially
those of d~isreputable associations, voted
against it.
Woman's Dickens Club recently
discussed Who are the vulgar2' They
decided it is a m who wears dia.
mond rings on her gloves and says "them
molasses."
A solemn fashion editor says that the
new style Marie Stuart bonnets are to be
felt. 1t is a long time since any sort Of
a bonnet has been neat enough to a
woman's head to be very much felt.
Jennie June says it is really true that
Ben Butler wanted to marry Anna Dick.
If Anna would wed Ben, and
take him on a starring tour, to play
WI to her Auna Boleyn, her
on The stage would be made.
Worth, the Paris mau-dressmaker, has
Just finished splendid costumes for ladies'
America, as follows; Mrs. William
Florence, Mrs. John I. Raymond, and
The new Mrs. Senator Spencer. It ia
said that the Grst wife of Senator Spen.
GER died of a broken heart, and now the
second wife orders her dresses from
in Paris. SO wags the world of
man.
In q lecture on War" John Ruskin
declared that the existence of wars in
civilized state was wholly The FAULT
Of women. Il must tell you women
said he, "if the usual course Of
war, instead of u%nroo6ng peasants o
houses and ravaging peasants fields,
merely broke china upon your own
room tables, no war in civilized
countries would last a week.
A female medical student with the
Russian army is thus described: 1.-THE
gentlemen with her we're surgeons on
heir way to join some ambulance. The
lady wore her hair short aud parted on
one side; spectacles With gold rims, a
tunic, belted in round the waist,
md o short black skirt. She smoked
cigars and seemed hail.fellow we'll met
With all her companions"
A letter from New York to the Spring
ield Republican says that more women
Try goods merchants are buying goods
1t the great jobbing houses this fall
ban was ever the case before. Women
bought Of one firm SlO,65O worth tf
in oEe day. Their purchases
not large, but very discreet ard
discriminating. They knew exactly
they wanted, and paid cash or ito
Equivalent"
They say that the marriage between
Princess Charlotte Of Prussia and the
Prince Of SAKE Meiningen will be enc Of
lure affection. Oh, Of course. That is
Vhat they said when Wales married AL
xandra, Of Denmark, and the proAigate
lake Of Edinburgh married the Cars
.aughter. Royal percentages always
marry for love; it must be 50, for they
uake a particular point Of telling il
very time but it somehow happens that
be wife is hardly over a person to be
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