Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1877-08-23
Helena, Montana, Thursday, August %, 1877.
POUR LES DAM ES.

Gail Hamilton is accused of starting the
riot.
Happily, no 'Woman's Club lent its weight
to the strike!
San Francisco is to have Woman's hotel.
Win it have bar?
At the White Sulphur Springs there are no
less than eleven bellies, all tolled.
Velvet caps are worn by equestriennes in
stead of the Silk hats SO long popular.
SEVERAL English ladies have adopted the
Anna Dickinson style of riding horse.
German ladies, and even brides, are begin
ming to wear myrtle instead of orange bios
SONS.
In the best London society now balls do
not commence until the day after they are
fixed for.
Mrs. Livermore is neither Universalist
nor Unitarian, bat regular Baptist in good
standing.
Mrs. j. $. C. Abbott, of Fair Haven, Ct.,
is reported to be writing memoir OF her late
husband.
New cambria dresses are frequently mixed
with silk, and striped linen dresses are made
over silk skirts.
Galvanic electricity was discovered by n
woman, Madam Galvani, but her hus' JanA
gets all the credit Of it.
An old bachelor says that every W oman is,
in the wrong until she cries, and t'len she is
in the right instantly.
If worse comes to worse, the Sultan might
put his wives into the field ard thus overr,ln
the whole Eastern C0ntineLt.
A young French soldier was persuaded
lately by his lady love to cut off three of his
fingers that she might keep him at home.
Ada Sweet, the Chicago Pension Agent, it
is rumored, will soon be married. She is
probably already practising ''The sweet buy
and buy"
Charles Dickens thought it necessary to
publish a long letter criticising his wife in the
newspapers. Mrs. Dickens side has never
been heard from yet.
Soft cashmere of light color is used for the
dresses of little girls for cool days. Foulard
of a contrasting color is used in combination
with the cashmere.
NJ. Ominus, in q communication to the
Partisan Medical Society, declares that
fashionable women are seriously injuring
their health by wearing high heels.
Female rulers are often found among the
barbar0us tribes of Asia and Africa. Wo-
men who are determined to rule will there
find an abundant field.
. tramp had entered widows cot,
One dark, uncanny night;
She feled him with big slung-shot;
Such was the widows might.
Sleeveless jackets, made of cream colored
cashmere and solidy embroidered in black
and gold, are elegant and expensive articles
delighted in by ladies at thd watering places.
Every shopkeeper who refuses to let his
woman clerks sit down when they are not
busy, deserves to be abankrupttill doomsday.
and then be made to stand, on one leg,
through all eternitv-
An Irishman writes to the New York Sum
declaring that Miss Boyle, who made her de-
but in New York the other night as four
teen-year-old Juliet, was born in the County
Roscommon, Ireland, in 1852.
"A lump of gum arabic or little sperma-
ceti improves starck and makes it glossy. 1t
is the use of these articles which gives such
smootbness and gloss to garments washed in
regular laundries.
Rev. Anna Oliver, formerly of Cincinnati,
is settled as pastor of church at GAINESVILLE,
N. Y. She says the Methodist Episcopal
church is as sure to open its doors to women
preachers as the years are sure to roll
No wonder Rosa Bonheur is the most fam
ous animal painter in the world. She used
to put on boys clothes and spend hours in
the public slaughter houses of Paris, where
women usually are not allowed to 60.
THERE are twelve thousand houses to let
in Philadelphia, and real estate dealer pre-
diets that before cold weather sets in the
number will be increased to fifteen thousand
in consequence of the doubling up of families.
There is a confiding Boston servant girl
who for the last few days has been running
look out of the front area door every five
minutes. She gave religious book agent
five dollar bill to change and he's off chang
ing it yet.
MY wife, remarks one Benedict to
"has the lOveliest head OF hair
you ever saw. When she lets her hair down
fhe ends of it touch the floor" That's
nothing," replied the other ''When my wife
lets her hair down it falls on the floor
In Constantinople law has bsen made
against the use of thin wells, tight fitting
clothes and high-heeled shoes among women,
md all offenders are arrested and imprisoned.
Suppose there was similar law in this land,
what would become of the ladies?
Worcester Press: Zone day the sexton
vas standiug on the church steps wiping his
features with red bandana. A
learse stood near and three or four carriages
we're drawn up behind it. The notes of the
'rgan floated out of the window with solemn
fleet. A stranger came along and said:
Funeral?' And the old sexton gravely
,owed his head-it was Who's dead 2 The
Id man again wiped his brow and gave the
ame of the deceased. What complaint?
sked the inquisitive stranger. Solemnly