The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-06-09
The Gentle Sex.

Two of our fair friends venture short
communications for this number. Il is ii
good sign to find young ladies' paying
more attention TO reading, and 10 litera-
ry composition. We have often heard
pretty girls gay, III reference to u
event of world wide Importance -
why, when did Mut sccur?' And to
the query -''IIave you no n~ewspaper?'
make the unblushing response oh
yes, the house Is fall OF newspapers. but
Question them closely aud you Will find
that the reason they don't like reading
is because either they have no mind TO
comprehend the march of public events,
recorded by the press, or they are SO
engrossed In some petty personal pur-
suit that all their thoughts and lives are
given up to it. True, it is not possible
for every woman to give much time to
newspaper reading; because there are
often a perpetual round of household
duties to fill her waking hours. But
the girl who wishes to grow 10 mental
stature, and fit herself for any sphere
of life, will find, or make, time to keep
posted on the topics OF current %intelli-
nce.--Little TOmmie Hale new
little brother Is just such another fat,
handsome, and saucy yourgster as him.
self. - r. Peter NJ. Wilson is cree
ting a new residence for his mother and
sister and himself, nearly opposite Gov.
Holden mansion. The Wadesboro
Times says: Mrs. Judge Bennett, and
her daughters, Misses Mary and Efhe,
returned home from Nashville, Tenn,
last Thursday. --The young gentle
men of Wadesbo-o gave a very pleasant
hop in Crowder Hall Tuesday evening
last complimentary to the visiting
young ladies, Miss Warren Bey and the
Misses Johnston. The Charlotte Italian
Band was OF hand for the OCCASION, md
the music was most excellent. The
young ladies' present, who Jt IL,
Cooked their sweetest" We're, Misses
Bette Warren-Bey, Fannie aud Alice
Johnson, Alice Leak, Josephine Ashe,
Annie McMurray, Dora Gatewood, Mary,
Ellie and Katie Bennett, Amelia Gov
ington and Nellie Ashe. There were
also present several married ladies, with
their ords.'-The bellies from
Raleigh, Charlotte, Fayetteville. Hills
boro, and elsewhere cut ''qilitea shine
at the University Ball. Twenty eight
fair ones are ''described' ard all wor.
either ''diamonds' or pearls" except
two who, by the by, were not the least
pretty, or tastetully dressed of the whole
assemblage. Five of the costumes were
from "Paree - made by Worth, the
famous man milliner. The fair ones
looked very nicely in a MUS clothes :;
but that doeSn matter. The poet lied
when he said -
Worth makes the man, want him-the Eel
The rest is all leather or prunello.'
Some of our girls have IA plenty of
diamond-sparkle in their eyes and are
SO gracefully moulded BY Nature that
the en- wear most anything, or nothing
at all and out shine the finest primpery of
the famous breechalooned seamstress.
But by all accounts there were enough
OF pink" green, blue, white
and tother-color, "satlns' and Lace"
to fit out Il Paris Silk-shop. Miss Grace
Dewey received the Marshal's regalia.
The Raleigh Bouquet embraced Miss
Manly, Miss Mai, Miss Cowper, Miss
Matte Fowle, Miss Lavinia Haywood,
Miss Nary Hinton, Miss Mckee. Miss
Fucker, Miss Mordecai. Mis-. Vance
and Mrs. Jarvis were also present and
Misses Butord and Murchison from
Richmond.