Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-11-22
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
News and Notes for Women.

News and Notes for Women.
Miss Sadie Sykes, by vote of 2Ol to
103, has been declared the prettiest girl
a. Reno, New.
The ladies of the royal family of Rus
STA are said to be the most beautiful
women in Europe.
Miss Corson Esys che is forever in.
debted to the press, for it has made the
reputation of her New York cooking
school.
A young English lady finds it profita-
BILE to cultivate a fern farm. In this
way she is able TO flemish herself hand.
somely with pin money,
An enterprising young man in lows
helped his wife, while counting her, 10
cut rags enough to make sixty yards
of carpet to start housekeeping ON.
Miss Matte Marshall, of Madison,
Ind, puts bcr gun on her shoulder and
tramps about through the country for
game-iust like any other hunter.
The ladies of Japan are said to gid
their teeth and those of the East Indies
to paint them red, while in Ciuzert the
test of beauty is to render them black.
Mrs. Foster, a lawyer of Clinton, Ia.
has Just won victory in liquor suit in
that town, holding the offender on four
indictments. A public meeting was held
in honor of the event.
Miss Alderberry, of Milwaukee, has
been put under restraint as 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 of
various colors-black one day, red the
next, yellow the next, and so on.
Instead of bridesmaids, fashion in
France now prescribes two tiny pages,
who are chosen from the prettiest of the
boy-relatives of the bride or bridegroom.
These are dressedi in velvet of the brides
favorite color. At recent wedding the
tiny court dress worn was of sapphire
velvet, with white silk stockings and
velvet shoes with diamond buckles. A
bouquet composed of rosebud, an
orange blossom, and branch of myrtle
is attached to the left ei2e, They per-
form the usual role of the bridesmaid,
carry the brides Inissal bouquet and
gloves and, in addition. meet her and as
slst her from and to the carriage steps.
WOman's Rights in Ancient Egypt.
We are not perhaps accustomed to
think of ancient Egypt as very ad-
vanced and liberal country, It is certain,
however, that ladies had no cause to
make one of the complaints which is SC
often heard in modern England. Women
not only might hold property, but they
often absorbed all the wealth of Their
husbands. There is in the Egyptian
museum of the Louvre a collection Of
legal documents from the time Of Alex.
ander the Great to the twentieth year Of
Ptolemy Energetes. These documents,
which are family contracts, wills, Deeds
and SO forth, have lately been decipher.
ed by NJ. Revillout. He has traced
legal existence of several generations
and thrown great, perhaps unexpected
light on the history of female property
IL seems that husbands always coded al
their wealth, real and personal, to theil
wives, who disposed of it in turn to the
children of the marriage or nephews. A
widow was thus left in comfortable ant
even commanding position. Let III
take the case of Palma, who, on hi
marriage with a lady named Taoutem
made her bridal gift, perhaps answer
ing to the morning gift 3" of the Ger
m&ns and the Hindoo gift by the nuptia
fire. He also promised to make Taou
tenn q small yearly allowance, on the
security of his property. Three year.
later we find poor Patma deep in hi
wife's debt, and he promises to yield VI
all he has if he has not cleared himsel
in three years. A later papyrus show
that Patma had to sell all his posses
sions, which are carefully inventoried
and that he satisfied the claims of hi
wife at this alarming sacrifice. Example
of this kind are common. Hus
bands were ruthlessly "sold out" ant
property was concentrated in femal
hands. The husband, poor fellow, oftel
inserted clause in the marriage con
tract, by which he stipulat d that hi
wife should maintain him in his old age
Diordorus Siculus, we believe, mention
ed these facts, but it was supposed tina
it was only Diordorus' fun; ID mer
travellers tale. The papyri demonstrat
beyond all doubt that man has ofte,
been, in times past, wronged and sub
mlsslve being. Week.