The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-02
LADIES COLUMN.
About Women.

sauce.
Prof Kate Sanborn, of Smith
College, Northampton, is the daugh-
ter of Prof. San born, of Dartmouth
College, and the grand-nIece OF
Daniel Webster.
A Kansas woman who was called
"homely as hedge fence" sued the
slanderer and received only cents
damages. Kansas hedges are not so
bad looking.
An Eastern debating club is
wrestling with "Can a community |
exist without womenT' We think
it could exist for while, but then |
it wouldn't know what was going |
on.
The latest case of vulgar Display |
in New York city is an $4,000 bon
net. We are told, however, that it !
is ga model of quiet taste, being of |
dark rich maroon blush, with lit
tie other trimmings than diamonds"
Will you and your son occupy
one roomI" asked hotel clerk of a
woman of SO, who arrived at 0ma-
ha with boy of 16. "This is not
my son" she said, with emphasis,
"but my husband. We are on our
bridal tour"
A new wrinkle for brides is to
have a little book in which they
write down the present received, its
value, and the giver's name, so
there shall be no mistake in the
quality or the expense of a return
gift, if one has to be made.
The mother who decorates the
knees and seat of her boys pants
with good, solid patches does more
for humanity than the ninety and
nine artistic creatures who spoil as
many vases and fower-pots with am
ateur ceramic foolishness.- Evans
vile Argus.
Mrs. Duncan McLaren, of Edin
bnrgh, recently returned a sharp
answer to a man who, at a Social
Seance, inquired what sort of hus-
bands the ladies had who spoke
so bitterly on the subject of the
property of married women. Said
she: "Those who have good hus-
bands are the only women who dare
speak on this subject.
There is such d thing as overdo-
ing a matter. Queen Victoria
sends three pounds to every mother
of triplets in her dominions. But
when the worthy wife of one Thorn
as Coilyer applied second time for
this gratuity she was refused, be-
ing informed, by order of the queen,
that once was enough, and that IL
was not the intention of her males |
~ to encourage a habit IN that re
spect.
A woman with a will can make |
her way in the American world. In
Ulster county, New York, there is
a woman o1 real grit who inherited
fourteen years ago large estate, con
slsJIng principally OF farming land
heavily encountered with debt. 1t
was the Old homestead, and she
could not bear the idea that it
should pass into the hands of
strangers, and was determined that
L should not. Although then only n
twenty four years OLD, and with NO
more practical knowledge Of life
han an ordinary country lass, she
assumed sole charge of the estate,
md resolved TO clear it of debt
Having an old mother sixty-two
years of age, half sister, also
helpless from old age, the two or
phan children OF a deceased brother,
and brother in the last stages OF
consumption to provide for, this
made her task doubly hard. A Ii
Tie experience taught her that it was
impossible to support her large fam
Ily AID keep up the interest arising
from the heavy Indebtedness OF the
estate from the products of the
larm. She decided upon school
teaching. She was engaged to
leach in her own neighborhood at
IS per month, and her salary in
short time was raised to $40 per
month. She has continued school
teaching ever since, directing the
work OF heE farm, and during the
summer vacations going into the
harvest field with the farm hands to
pitch on hay, rake, bind, etc. She
has earned from teaching school
over s., 1900, paid of the debt OF the
old homestead, and greatly i'm
proved the property. She has been
an extensive stock raiser. Her
wheat crop averaged this year forty |
two bushels to the acre, the largest /
weld in the county. A short time
ago she learned that a brother-in
law living in Pennsylvania was in |
destitute circumstances. She went |
to him and found him helpless from
an lncurable disease, with a family |
depending upon him. "Ben," she
said, 'what can l do for your"
Nothing, Libbie," was the reply. !
You have your hands full already. |
We will have to go to the county |
house, L suppose" Never, Ben,
as long as 1 live. Come and enjoy |
the comforts OF the old homestead |
with me. l viii keep you and your
family as long as you live" She |
say she has enough to do now with
ont having to support husband |
too, which she might have to do if
she were to marry.-[N. Y. Tribune.
Making a Woman Beautiful.