The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-30
She Knew Best.

A Boston man besought his wife. he
being but three days married, for the
privilege of latch key. Latch key r
she exclaimed in amazement, "what use
can men have for latch key when the
Women's Emancipation League meets
Monday night, the Ladies Domestic
Mission Tuesday, the Sisters of Jericho
Wednesday, the Woman's Science Circle
Thursday, the Daughters OF Nineveh
Friday, and the Women's Progressive
Art Association and the Suffrage Band
on alternate Saturday nights. You stay
at home and see that the baby doesn't
fall out of the cradle. He stays.-Quiz.
The Woman Carried Hhe Jury.
A woman in New York was sued for
the price of dress. She was at once
witness and an exhibit, for she wore the
disputed dress on the stand, SO that the
jury could see its faults. Faulty it was,
to tell the truth, and when she drew the
sleeve around her skeleton arm, to show
how loose it was, or lifted the surplus
cloth on her hips, or grabbed the excess
of material on her bosom, explaining at
the same time that she had ordered the
corsage to fit her like aglove, the dullest
of the six jurors could understand that
the maker had erred. The attorney for
the plaintiff, in ross-questioning, asked
if she had not laced herself expressly for
this occasion, SO as to make the dress
looser. She replied holly that her corset
measure was invariably and unchanged
bly, seventeen and half inches. and
then, dropping into silent sarcasm,
wanted to know if he thought that lac
ing would make her arms smaller or her
shoulders narrower. This was too ana
tomical for the legal gentleman, and he
was feeble from that time out. The Jury
gave verdict for the defendant.
Henry Clay and Mime. De Stael.
In looking over some old family pa
pers Gen. James Grant Wilson, of New
York, came upon the following unpub-
ished sketch, written for lady in
March, 1929, by Henry Clay:
Your DESIRE dear madam, some line of friend
ly remembrance. What shall say? You have
asked me to record something of the celebrated
Madame de Stael. She was the most extraord-
mary woman of this or any other age, blending
of yours. She seems to have been bestowed
on our race to vindicate the equal claim of the
female mind to intellectual excellence. / knew
this remarkable woman in Paris. | first met
her at ball given on the occasion of the Peace
of Ghent at the banker Hottinuger's. "Ah !!
Mr.. Clay" she said, "the English have been
much incensed against you. have been lately
pleading your cause at London. Do you know
they contemplated at one time sending the
Duke of WELLINGTON to command their armies
against your" 1 told her that was aware of
the exertion of her eloquence in our behalf, and
thanked her for it. added that wished the
British Government had seut the Duke.
"Why?" she inquired, with much surprise.
Because, madam, had we beaten the Duke
we should have gained immortal honor, while
we should have lost none had we been defeated
by the conqueror of Napoleon" I next saw
De Stael at her own house, where she intro
duced me to the Duke of Wellington, and re-
lated to. him the above conversation. He re-
marked With much apparent feeling and grace
that he shorld have placed most noble feather
in his cap had he beaten 80 gallant people as.
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