The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1880-03-10
F ACTS AND FANC1Es FOR THE FAIp

SOCIETY stockings are getting to be
delicate as dream.
THE music of the bell is not in its
tongue. Bellies should remember this.
A CARS head carved in black peal is
one of the ptettiest of the new buttons.
WOMAN is like the reed which bends
to every breeze, but breaks not in the
tempest.
MRS. GRANT says that the prettiest
girl seen in all her travels was at Reno,
New, railroad station.
PRETTY little capes of jet or other
beads are called "cOats of mail, and
are designed to be worn with any COS
tune.
MANCHESTER, England, has a society
of women painters, to which the other
sex is not admitted, not even at the
yearly exhibition.
THE Louis XIV jacket is one of the
newest and at the same time one of the
oldest Jackets worn.
THERE are nine ladies on the London
School Board. England is very liberal
to women in the educational ara bust
ness privileges accorded her.
BRIGHT red kid slippers are introduced
! for house wear. They are Ornamented
with bows and buckles, and can be worn
with any dress.
The only instance of leap-year privi-
| lege vet noticed in this vicinity was that
of woman being seen down town at
midnight after her husband. -.
"GREYLING" is another shaded
paper, of a fine shadow grade, with
! pearly tinge, specially useful for travel
ing notes, when light papers show every
trace Of handling.
WALKING boots of Indian goat have
! silk elastic cores two inches deep set in
each side at the ankle, and above this
half dozen buttons that close the boot
in the usual manner.
THOSE who think that in order to
dress we'll it is necessary to dress ex-
travagantly or grandly, make great
mistake. Nothing else so well becomes
true feminine beauty as simplicity.
The Duchess of Montrose can milk a
COW, and recently demonstrated the fact
to the admiration of the men in her hus-
bands racing stable, who were less
learned in farmyard arts than she.
WOMEN are the poetry of the world in
the same sense as the stars are the poe
try of heaven. Clear, light-giving,
harmonious, they are the terrestrial
planets that rule the destinies of man
kind.
A FEW ladies in Philadelphia have set
an example which might well be fol
lowed in many other cities. Having
| much leisure time on their hands, they
! give practical lessons in housekeeping,
gratuitously, to poor girls unable to pay
for such training.
The only time in life when woman
seems to be happy is when she calmly
sits down and attempts to trim a new
bonnet with old trimmings. She seems
to be truly happy; but what VesuVius
is at work in her heart!
OF the twenty-five persons selected in
Boston as members of governing boards
for charitable and reformatOry institu,
lions, eight are women who are said to
do their work " in a very sensible and
practical way" Why shouldn't they.
| Women who are not sensible and
practical" are not apt to take an interest
in benefting mankind-Or wOmankino
either.
ALADY was passing round the hat .
in a salon for the benefit of the poor
"This is for your beautiful eyes" says
calamity a beau of the old school, drop
ping q five-dOllar bill in the collection
box. ooh, thanks!" says the fair one
with a profound courtesy, "and now
want something for the poor holding
out the boxes again.-B0ston Courier.