The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-09-05
The Feminine World.

One of the Eastern churches claims
that wealthy lady of their congregation
saves them $40, 900 year by the exam
pie she sets her sisters in the simplicity
and plainness of her dress.
One of our best writer's says: "That
education makes women less pedantic
and more lovable."
One of the printed rules in female
seminary is that none of the pupils
shall eat slate pencils, chalk, soap
stone or coal.
In the United States there are over
one thousand females practicing as doc
ors, dentists, lawyers and preachers.
Many women have ruined their health,
and some have become insane by the
habit of eating arsenic to clear and
whiten their compilations. Still, the
list of arsenic victims does not diminish.
A London merchant says that the
American women are the most capricious
and extravagant women in the world;
particularly in the matter of hosiery.
Their latest caprice is open-work lace
hose-lace from the top to the toe-to
be worn with a colored silk stocking
underneath.
Queen Victoria has her carriage seat
arranged in such a manner that the
motion OF the vehicle sets it rocking.
She can now bow to the populace with
out wearing out the vertebr@ of her
neck by the incessant motion.
Seventy-fve hundred dollars is
higher price than the majority of us
pay for dress, but is the actual price
paid for the wedding dress of lady of
nobility.
Vassar girls are not allowed to keep
parrots and dogs, but are permitted to
keep 500 pianos continually going; so
they are not deprived of their privileges.
1t is useless for physicians to argue
against short.sleeved dresses. The Con-
stitution of the United States says that
"the right to bear arms shall not be in
terfered with"
Lady clerks in the different depart
ments at Washington have been released
from the political law which used to tax
them a percentage on their salary to
help defray the expenses of political
campaigns.
A woman of rare presence of mind
was overtaken by train on a high
trestlework, near Marietta, O., recently,
and dropped between the ties, holding
herself suspended by her arms until the
train passed over, when she climbed
back again, and all without scream.
The acknowledged belle of Europe is
an American lady from New Jersey.
Camels hair shawls are made from the
wool of the Cashmere goat, and not
from camels hair, as many have sup
posed.
A number of the leading ladies of
Chicago are meditating plan for the
founding of a home for inebriate women,
similar to the Washingtonian Home in
that city.
The either, already fashionable in
England, promises to become the rage
now that the Princess of Wales has be-
gun to take lessons on it.
The sweet girl graduate has been
heard from. Having laid to rest her
bouquets and bolted up her graduating
ribbon, she now wears the royal purple
and tastes the sweets of life-she's put
ting up blackberry jam.
Virginia City, New, gave its prettiest
girl tea-set costing $65.
Women are usurping men 8 rights in
Colorado. They have organized them
selves into gangs and are stealing horses.
Eating cloves is injurious, as Yer
mont girl discovered after she had lost
her health and forty pounds in flesh.