Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-15
FEMININE FANCIES.

Lusterless silks are again coming
into use.
F'lt bonnets are to be embroidered
with gold.
The old style bead reticules are
coming into use again.
Ferns picnics are now quite the
rage; the leaves and the girls look
beautiful at this season of the year.
One lady still remains at Judge
Hilton,s hotel in New York for the
original price of seven dollars a week.
Pious young ladies in England o
distribute tracts in sealed and scented
envelopes, through the mails or in
person.
There are twenty-eight divorce cases
on the equity docket of the Richmond
lGa,) Superior Court. The wives
brought suit IN twenty of the cases.
Wedding tours have been abolished
in New York. The happy couples,
instead of going off for a trip, are
driven to a hotel and spend a week
there.
Charitable lady-"Poor man! fit.
were possible to procure work. what
situation would suit you best?"
Tramp-"Lady's companion, num-"
Miss Alderberry, of Milwaukee. has
been put under restraint as a lunatic.
but it is asserted in her behalf that she
IS simply eccentric in dress. She had
her hair cut off close, and wore wigs
or various colors-black one day. red
the next, yellow the next, and SO on.
Ayoung woman in Leon. Texas. was
engaged to be married. That did not
deter her from clipping with a second
lover but she was overtaken by the
first lover, with whom she went ODE
diently to a clergyman and was Joined
in wedlock, the second lover return
ing home wifeless.
Nine women Of Burlington banded
themselves together last week. by a
solemn vow, never to speak of other
women at all, if they could not speak
well Of them, and their tongues have
grown so rusty from disuse that they
have to lubricate them with machine
oil before they can swallow.
The newest short dresses have three
kiltplaited f%ounces crossing the base.
and covering the back breadths from
belt to foot. In front there is am
apron wrinkled across and one wide
knife-plaited 1ounce at the foot.
Sometimes this short apron takes the
washerwoman shape, and sometimes it
is merely a plated scarf.
Mary Stalfa, of Traverse, Mich.
stepped on a loose board and fell into
the room below, where sat a young
man who had never seen her before.
He may have been se%ntimentally inn
pressed blythe fact that she came down
to him from above, for before night
he asked her to marry him, and She
assented; but evidently he Judged too
hastily, for within two months he an
piled for a divorce.
The Comtesse de Bassanville in the
Almanach du Savoir Vivre: "When
you are past twenty-five" she says,
never let more than five or six hours
pass without closing your eyes for a
short tlme-say ten minutes; not nee
essarlly to sleep but to repose the
muscles of the eye Every move
ment and play of the face necessarily
tends to fatigue these muscles-wheth-
er it bea smile or the expression of
surprise or of fixed action. The clos
ing Of the eyelids at intervals is there
fore recommended as a beauty rest.
The muscles reposed lose their ten-
dency to that nervous contraction
which translates itself into wrinkles.
, A lady begins to play whist by ask
ing about eleven times in two seconds
what is trumps, though the trump card
is lying before her eyes. She then
asks whose lead it is. If a lead is
made while she is asserting her cards.
: she asks who made the lead. and then.
! asks what has been led, though there
! IS only one card on the table. Having
! by this time got her ideas collected.
i she begins to discuss volubly on a love
OF a bonnet she saw that day, or asks
: somebody in the next room what they
! think Of Miss What's her-name who il
! in town ON a visit. OF course, by this
. method she keeps the run Of the cards
! perfectly, and is ready to trump her
I partners queen, after he has taken Che
I king with his ace.