The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1880-09-08
FOR THE FAIR SEX.


A short untrimmed skirt of dull black
silk to use as a petticoat under mourn
ing dresses will be found useful.
Mrs. G. Leasure died near Chillicothe,
O., recently, aged 100. She n been
counted in every census. Her widow
hood has lasted sixty years and b
leaves a o aged eighty.
They have a sleeping girl at Tarville,
Bucks, England, She has been in a
trance for nine years, living on wine
and milk. A local physician thinks she
is paralyzed and unconscious.
Sukey Hart, a colored woman. aged
l4O years, recently died in Kinney,
Texas. AS proof of her great age it is
stated that she nursed her mistress, now
seventy.eight years old, after her own
| sixteenth child was born.
Poker playing is a favorite feminine
accomplishment ut Epperson Springs, a
Tennessee wat sring-place. One young
lady boosted to a correspond ent of haV-
ing won q fine horse at the card table.
Eugene derives her revenue from
three sources-the product of tavings
and speculations, the assurances on the
emperor's life, and the real estate which
the empress bought in her own name
when she was on the throne.
The stories about the outrageous
bathing suits worn at Newport grow
bigger and bigger daily. The last tale
ofhorror is of o white marine costume
with shirring of scarlet silk and a bor-
der of gold fringe. The chemisette and
stockings are of oiled silk.
In Hungary ones official age dates
from his baptism. A woman Of forty
only recently baptized into the church
was arrested for stealing and pleaded
that she was an infant, being legally
only six months old. The court con-
sidered the defense good and acquitted
her.
A recent German paper gives an in
stance of a%rsenical poisoning caused by
a dress. A gentleman brought from
Paris for his daughter IN elegant dark
green dress, trimmed with light green
leaves. She had worn it several times,
when numerous pustules broke out on
her neck and arms, which grew 30 pain
full that she was forced to call a physi-
clan. He at once recognized the effects
OF a~rsenical poisoning, and chemical ex.
animation revealed q large percentage OF
arsenic in the dress.
The female population figures promi-
nently in the census returns of Colorado,
the Youngest in the sisterhood OF States,
and ranges all the way from more than
a third in q comparativeIy aged town
like Denver to 3,704 among L"adville's
Is, 1856 people, and G86 to the 4,6H in the
newer mining town, Silver Gill.
Tue Princess of Wales. when sue
takes her. little daughters into society,
has n quaint fashion of dressing them in
toilets harmonizing with her own. For
instance, at O garden party the other
day, she wore a costume OF light blu
and celadon green, and che young prln.
cesses followed her about in gowns OF
the blue.
A young lady in Covington, Ca, who
is worth 500, 900, broke m engagement
with q young man during commence:
ment because he paid 81 for a horse and
buggy to give her q ride. She argued
that O man who would be SO foolish as
to pay that much for q few hours
pleasure was rot the kind she wanted
for a husband.
The new French slipper with its low
heel, which displays so well the fanciful
stockings of the period, is easily lost off,
and when the loser at o ball is the belle
the slipper is seized by the gallants and
cut into a number of trophies. "Your
slipper was 80 tiny and you are SO ad-
mired that it wouldn't half 60 round"
was the compliment that lately brought
the bushes to the face of a young New
port dancer.