Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-07-30
CONCERNING WOMEN.

popular.
i PENNSYLVANIA has two lady superin.
tendents of schools.
some of the latest breakfast caps are
almost exactly the shape of baby caps.
FANNY KEMBLE has settled down in
London after many years residence in
this country.
A LADY who has farm of twenty
acres on the Delaware river makes net
profit of $500 year.
The first two days of the sale of the
late Nine. Musard's jewels at Paris pro-
duced about $18O,O0O. The sensation
lot was q necklace of seven rows of pearls
which brought $S4, 900.
THE marriage of loving couple In
Germany is being deferred because the
bride cannot prove that she was born,
her existence seeming not to answer
German legal requirements as to proof.
MARYLAND, Delaware, Virginia and
Louisiana are the only states now left
in which the male teachers outnumber
the female. In New Hampshire there
are five women teachers to one man, and
in Massachusetts, eight to one.
BLACK grenadine dresses for evening
wear are all mounted on satin founda-
tion, and white lace is used for trim
ming them. Laces beaded with both jet
and gold are often used for trimming
grenadine and other Kinds of black
dresses
WHITE foulard is one of the most
beautiful of all materials for summer
dresses. 1t is generally made up with
many gatherings, the fronts usually
being full. Valenciennes is more used
on it than Breton lace, and gives it an
exceedingly rich appearance.
CHRISTINE NILSSON recently said to q
reporter: II am, as you hear, peas
ant born, and l am proud of it," and
then added the admiring pencil pusher:
"The fair head was flung back, the blue
eyes threw q fairer ray, and the soft
curls were shaken"
MRS. GOULD MITCHELL, of Massachu-
sets, an old Indian woman who says
that she is lineal descendant of Massa-
SOFT, has pitched her tent on the borders
of Assawompset Pond in Massachusetts,,
on the land of her forefathers, which
she claims, and intends to pass the sum-
mer there.
"WHAT on earth have you brought
all those things home forT contemptu-
0usly asked woman of her husband, -
he spread lot of pictures on the table.
"You have often twitted me-" he an
swered, "of never having any views on
the subject, and 70 I've got a lot of
views here on all sorts of subjects; and
they are my views. I paid for them.
A WOMAN speaker at q recent tenn
perance convention in Ohio remarked
that women worked presistently. Last
summer, on her way to Lake Side, she
saw a man and woman h0eing corn. Al
the train approached the man stopped
work, leaned on the hoe handle, and
gszed at the flying carriages. For
aught she knew he yet looking. But
the woman hoed right on, only glancing
at the passing train. She would say to
the Temperance woman of Ohio hoe
right on.
GRACE GREENWOOD writes: Never
unsex yourself for greatness. The wor-
ship of one true heart is better than the
wonder of the world. Don't trample ON
the flowers while longing for the stars.
Live up to the full measure Of life; give
way to your impulses, loves and enthu.
siasms: sing, smile, labor and be happy.
Adore poetry for it's sake; yearn for and
strive after excellence; rejoice when
Others attain it; feel for your contempo-
aries loving envy; stealinto your ooun-
try's heart; glory In is greatness, exult
in it's power, honor it, gallant men, Inn.
mortalise it, matchless women"
NINE. BoNAPARTE was m0rbidly sen.
sitive about her age. One summer at
White Sulphur Springs she enjoyed the
society of . Baltimore gentleman very
much, complimenting his manners, con-
versation, ETC., until one day he commit
ted the fatal mistake of asking tho Mad
ame's age. She never spoke tohim again.
Another summer, ut York springs, Pa,
she was annoyed BY the familiarity OF
. Mrs, of Baltimore. One day, while
seated ct dinner next to Mme. Bona.
parte, she remarked, Madame, am
very glad to meet you. I hear you
were once very beautiful. How old are
you nowr 10 which Nina. Bonaparts
curtly replied: "Nine hundred and
ninety years ninety-nine days and mine
uninufA6n