Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-28
FEMININE NOTES.

Albums containing photographs of ladies
in each new dress they receive. colored By
the exact hues of the material, are the
latest society toys.
"a woman" says Buckle, breaches her
prime between 80 and TO- Tor, though her
beauty has not lost the charm of youth, II
has acquired that of expression. 4"
If a girl has pretty teeth she laughs
often, ii she's got a pretty foot she'll wear
short dress, and if she's got neat hand
she's fond of game of whist and il the
reverse, she dislikes these small affairs.
George Eliot, indeed, was so thoroughly
feminine as to be fond of dress-for others.
son, what love of bonnet p she ex,
claimed, 10 schoolgirl phrase, on one occa'
sion, breaking off an intensely metaphysi.
cal conversation, when a we'll dressed
friend walked into the room. Miss Eige-
worth, by the way, shared George Eiob's
objection to sitting for portrait.
The New York SoroSis has been dis
cussing, according to Jennie jane, the
question: Which woman did the most
good in the world, Jane WEIGH Carlyle OF
George Eliot ?" The question was decided
i'll favor of the latter. because she was q
master creator, etc, while Mrs. Carlyle
was only an assistant to master, and OF
such as whom there are thousands to the
single George Eliot.
a wife makes a great mistake when she
is too lavish in her endearments. A little
resicence in the conduct OF his wife is to q
mans love like sails in his soup and lemon
in his oheese-cakes. Husbands love to be
loved, but they hate to BE- bored and {
very demonstrative, perpetualiy admin
istratiye and profoundly abiect wife clogs
by excess, chills by the mere force of rep
clifton, and repels by the very strain o.
nlonotony.
They tell this mot of the Empress d
Austria. In her hunting excursions Len
Majesty is always surrounded by gentle,
men, and by gentlemen only. "Why dc
you always have men about you, and never
a single woman p asked one Of her friends,
lady old enough to be pardoned the lib
erty. " Madame" replied the Empress,
g l enjoy having these gentlemen with me,
not because they are men, but because
they are not women -
a lady writing from Washington says
Mrs. Garfield is not up TO Mrs. Hayes in
the duty of handwriting. She does NOT
know how to take your hand into hers,
and so take it that you will have no oppor-
tunity Of crashing it. Mrs. Hayes was
master of the situation, because her hand
was strong and large, and long experience
made her an adept IN this universal Gus
tom. But Mrs. Garfield will learn before
long to save herself from torture in this
matter. and 90 at it in a business-like
way"
TIE Duchess Laura dc Baufremont, it
is reported, Is going to found colony Of
French emierants in this country. This
eccentric and good hearted lady is The
daughter Of the millionaire banker, NJ. Lee
roux, and Is noted for her oddities, IN
which, however, she IS always the grand
dame. She has bought a convent in Italy
for The pleasure OF living in it month
she has supported an Inperialist paper in
London, and she appeared once in the Row
with tame bear in her carriage, attached
by q thick gold chain.
The Ladys Pictoliai, London paper,
treating Of artificial aid to the toilet, says
We are told how womanhood is nova
days deluson and snare and the poet
who wrote sonnet to an eyebrow would
only lie addressing few touches of Indian
ink. Apiopos OF this eyebrow subject, it
is curious fact that nature always makes
the eyebrow in proper proportionate length
to the rest Of the features. Thicker an
eyebrow, ii you like, but never lengthen
it. 1t always gives you a look as If you
had a cast in the eye"