The Portland daily press., 1879-03-24
Men and Women

/ Mrs. Lock wood, the first woman admitted 10
practice in the supreme court, is fifty years old,
| tall, erect, gray-haiIe1, and the possessor Of
| fine eyes. She made her first appearance in
| semi-maunish blue cloth sacque, with brass
| Duttops and plain velvetine skirt
When Aehille Murat was in Florida, with a
Frenchman's instinct for new ard rare foods
he cooked and ate from nearly the entire fauna
| of the State. He used to cook alligator steak
IN way so delicious that 10 alligator m all
Florida would recognize it as morsel of one OF
his brothers. He worked long and faithfully to
make the turkey buzzard palatable by coed
cooking, but at last gave 1t up in despair When
asked how he liked it be said, ''Oh can eft
any kind bird am not affrste to eat aDyziDg,
l have 30 prejudice, but zs buzzard is net
goode."
The New York male reporters are guilty of
the enormity Of calling the new brocades Dolly
Vardens. 1t is difficult 10 teach man any.
| thing about fashions, bat when he does learn
anything he never forgets it, So long as there
remains one male journalist into whose head
some weary woman once forced the knowledge
toat certain kind Of figured stuff was called
Dolly Warden, so long the ma me will bs found
IN the writings OF those men, and very grateful
ought all women 10 be if they do not say that
the Dolly Warden was nobby and was cut bias.
-Doston 1ransclpt.
Jennie June says that female millner
would not trim straw hat twelve hours before
the time at which she had been accustomed to
do 1t all the years of her life not even to st II it,
out that the men who are in tie business dis
play bonnets at all hours with q recklessness
shocking to a well regulated female mind.
Even an imported bonnet has Lo particular
snaEredness to their profane minds. she says
All tney DO is to swear at the cost of that "bit
or trumpery," and exhibit it to the first woman
that comes along.
Speaking of the female walkers the New
York Tribune says, Nothing of late years
gives more pitiable insight into the condition
OF the laboripg classes than the rushing of
women into every employment which promises
to give them living"
Col. Alston, the Atlanta, Ga, editor who
was shot daring an alteration in the Capitol at
Atlanta the other day, wrote ten days before to
the New York Tribune denying that there was
any Violepce 10 the South and declaring that
lie was nowhere safer in the United States
than In that section.
A letter from New York says that Mr.. E. c.
Stedman recently received letter from rich
lady, saying her silver wedding was coming
and she wanted him to write her commem-
orative poem. She told him if it suited first
rate, she wouldn't mind paying $40 for it. Mr..
StedmaD, they say, replied that be could not
think OF taking advantage of her liberalty in
thatshe proposed, but recommended her to COM
muncate with Tennyson or Browning, who
made speciality of treating silver weddings in
epic form, and that they were in the habit of
composing such poems at the rate of SO q
dozen.
An English authority advises anybody who
knows a pretty, interesting girl, with strong
wrists, to buy her a gsaelle, or possibly goat,
and have her learn to catch the animal by the
horns "when he is going full tilt" The re-
ward of the purchaser will be found in the
beautiful picture that the girl will make as she
holds the struggling brute in perfectly firm
grasp, but perhaps the girl might take rather
more comfortin the picture that he would make
when she let the animal go and be chased his
owner cut OF sight.-BOston Transcript.
Here is a little marriage gossip: The dying
wish of Matthew Crooks, San Francisco nil
liona;re, was to witness the marriage of his
daughter, and the ceremony was performed
at his bedside, several weeks before the time
that had been appointed. The death. bed de.
sire of Mr.. Hayden CT the same city was to
break the engageme ut Of his daughter, and he
made her promise on her knees to discard her
lover. Detroit has had variation of the COM
mon foreign count matrimonial episode-the
husband running away with the BRIDES MOE ey
aud 5ewelry, but proving, after all, to be a real
count A young woman engaged section ia
sleeping car at Pittsburg, blushingly explain
ing that she would be joined by husband at
Harrisburg. When the train arrived at Har-
risburg young man got aboard with clergy
man, who married him to the purchaser of the
section, ard the honeymoon tour was at once
commenced. A rustic couple dashed into a
Washington oyster saloon, and implored the
proprietor to get them married as soon as pos
sible. They had eloped, and parents were on
their track. The oyster man not only sum-
moned justice to tie the knot, but provided
stews for the party after the ceremony Miss
Lecke married Mr.. Aiken in Denver, Col, on
his assurance that he was, as she phrases it, "a
wealthy Christian gentleman" but within
four days she learned that he was profession
al horse thief and parted from him. Miss Rug
gan's wedding day was appointed in Cler-
bnrne, Texas, and she made herself ready but
in the morning she received note from her
faitbless lover inviting her to come and see his
marriage to another girl. She committed sui
eide,