The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-08-30
SOCIETY TOPICS.

SOCIETY TOPICS.
THERE are still seventy-fve kinds OF
ways for arranging the hair.
The woman who said she wouldn't
marry the best man living kept her word'
she married very poor specimen.
THE Boston Transcript thinks that
American women are just the sweetest
women in the world.
SEVERAL Lynn, Mass, girls have had
their legs badly poisoned by wearing
colored stockings.
FIFTY years. ago woman could carry
a travelling outfit in little brown par
eel, but now four trunks will hardly
hold the dresses.
WHEN woman wishes to cut another
on the street she puts on a stare that Is
straighter and more unfiinchlng than
that of headlight on locomotive.
THE Detroit Free Press puts this con-
undrum: If woman wears court pIas-
tiers on her face, why not wear an eight
ounce tack in her shoe for comfort?
ALL the fancy tints in the coming
stocking are to be in the foot, while the
leg is pale brown. Women will have to
wear sandals, or their money will be
thrown away.
CHARLES JARRETT became a widower
at Buena Vista, Texas, aud his head was
so turned by freedom that within month
he married three women in as many
counties.
THE onion is not without its uses. A
clergyman at Table Grove, ILL.,, had
planned to elope with another mans
wife, but he ate onions, and the woman
backed out at the last minute.
Won HELLWALD, in his late work,
gives much news about the United
States. Man here, he says, is completely
the slave of the fair sex, which considers
itself as superior to him as it is to all
manual work.
ONE of the newest fancies in jewelry
is the cold oaken bucket" set in solid
gold; the earrings are tiny golden
buckets, and the pin is a perfect little
windlass, with rope coiled around it,
from the end of which the bucket is
suspended.
SEVERAL new shapes are announced
in fall wraps. There will be a large
number of mantles of different shapes,
all of them quite long and having a
simple hood or triple cape. Paletots
will disappear entirely. Fur will be a
favorite trimming.
MRS. l.. M. PIKE is said to be the first
woman who ever started a daily paper
in England. She is the publisher and
proprietor of the Derby Daily Telegraph.
1t is an excellent evening paper, and
the first daily published in the town of
Derby.
Boys don't be deceived. A girl who
will talk of the limbs" of table will,
after marriage, chase you all around the
ragged ramparts of two-acre lot with
rolling-pin and regular kerosene COLI
fagration in both eyes, Woman's Jour-
nal.
The fabrics to be used in autumn and
winter millinery will be beside the plain
velvets, satins and gros grain, shot terry
and velvet, with silken threads of white
or pale yellow in the pile, that will give
it speckled effect, printed foulard and
other oriental patterns upon it, and gros
grain shot with two colors.
The New England girl certainly car
ries off the palm for originality. A
young woman of Wallingford, Conn,
was married the other evening, and
while the festivities that followed the
ceremony were at their height the bride
eloped with one of her old admirers.
who was among the guests.
The Saturday Review says that "the
Interesting young man" must be pale
and thin, have long hair, but no side
whiskers, eat little in public, never
smoke pipe, be short-sighted, have a
big pain, be sour, talk about himself, be
lmpudent, be extreme in opinion, es-
peclally on theology and medi@valism;
be popular with women, not be able to
shoot or ride, hate wet feet, be disliked
by, men, and, in toto, be q" double-dis-
titled fool"
THE following advertisement appears
in the 1dgsblatt of Berlin: GA Young
lady belonging to most distinguishable
noble family, beautiful as Helena, indus.
trious as Penelope, thrifty as the Elec-
tress Marian of Bradenburg, witty as
Mime. de Stael; who sings like JENNY
Lind, dances like Ceritto; as pianist
rivals Rosa Kastner, as a violinist Teresa
O, civ 40 q Ahl plSt AIu0. b6rCranQ.
is as virtuous as Lucretia, as warm
hearted as st. Elizabeth of Hungary.
devoted as Miss Nightingale, possesses q
handsome fortune, and, in the absence
OF male acquaintance, seeks a husband
by means of the press. Replies to be
sent to the editor"
LUCY STONE has been paving q visit
to WELLESLEY College for women in Massa-
chusetts. She gives little account of
what she saw there in the Woman's Jour
nal. At this college the cooks are
men, the professors are women" The
visitors were invited to look at the
microscope work of the school. The
girls have more than fifty microscones
constantly in use, and gave an exhibit of
animal, mineral and vegetable specimens
which was much to their credit. They
also have row-boats, each with its own
colors, captain and crew. The girls are
accustomed to exercise themselves at
their oars on the lake every evening, and
are said to look very rosy and healthy.
Penalties.
I Ii pensity of popularity is envy.