Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-15
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

A false charge OF stealing twenty-five cent;
drove an Illinois girl insane.
Talk about cat fights, They don't begin
to compare with the quarrel of a church
choir.
A Vassar girl writes of the immense
"shirt-cuff editor that he is "one of the
sweetest of men," Gum, guml
The queen of Sweden has for device a
! swallow, with the motto, "To seek the beet. .
She is probably looking around for an editor
or some 40 Kentucky bourbon.
Miss Gordon Cumming says that in the
| Fiji Islands a man if forbidden to speak TO
his mother-in law. And still they continue
to talk abont sending missionaries TO such a
paradise that.
A New York brida was married recently
| in pair of stockings valued at $50. Now,
We submit that such an expenditure was
simply nonsensical. One hundred and forty
nine dollars worth of bonnet and 81 worth
OF stockings would have made much more
show.
"Queen Victories maids of honor average
about fifty years OF age" We had supposed
| that certain characteristics OF women were
the same the world over; but You can't find
a maid in this country who is more than
twenty uine, If you search it all over with a
ten-herse power microscope.
Vassar has one smart girl who will prob
ably hereafter be heard of in the women's
! rights societies-or circus rider. She
described "siraw" as being a mellow thing
| with tep-ceut man on one end OF il and a
twenty-cent drink on the other end" She
doesn't explain how ten-cent man can pay
for twenty cent drink, however.
Jennie Winterose eloped with John c.
Miller at Little Rock, Ark, and when her
parents upbraided her for marrying against
their wishes, she declared that she had done
| it for their sakes; that Miller threate ned to
kill them if she did not become his wife. Mr..
Wnterose deemed his daughters excuse
frivolous and compelled her to return home.
That night Miller came to the house and
shot him.
A young lady who graduated from high
school last July is teaching school up in New
Hampshire. A bashful young gentleman
visited the school the other day, and was
asked BY the teacher 10 say a few words
to the pupils. This was his speech: 'SchOl-
ars, hope you will always love your school
and your teacher as much as do" Tableau
-giggling boys and girls and blushing
echooma'am.
Lady Haines, the wife of the Indian hero,
is credited with mot too good to be thrown
away on account of prudes. Having stated
her intention of going to a fancy ball as
"Old Mother Hubbard" an enthusiastic adj
mirer OF hers vowed frivolously that he
would take the character of "the cupboard"
"You can not" said her ladyship quickly.
She added, after a telling pause, "Ihe cup
board was baren-L0ndon Life.
Striped flannel costumes will in great
degree take the place of the suits made of a
monochrome color, which have been worn for
so many seasons past Prettier and more
effective, however, than either alone would
be combination of the two-fer instance, an
underskirt of royal blue and old gold striped
flannel OF the smooth finish of ladies' cloth,
with Vatican tunic of royal blue flannel,
Jersey bodice of the same shade, and grace
full little Moorish coat, basque cut double
breasted, and fastened with gold buttons in
old medal designs.
The British lord chancellor'5 bill defining
married wOmen's property has been printed.
1t makes married women liable to the parish
for the relief OF their husbands, and renders
the wife liable al=o to criminal proceedings
in the event OF her committing any unlawful
act against the property OF her husband. IT
limits the liability of husbands in respect to
debts incurred by wives prior TO marriage,
and it strictly arranges the conditions under
which married woman can hold, acquire
and dispose of property.
A unique dress, made for lady in New
York who is OF an aesthetic turn OF mind, has
the court train made of darkest green velvet, |
lined throughout with old gold of the deep
est yellow shade. This is made up over
petticoat of pale gold satin, embroidered
around the bottom with a single row OF dark
green rose leaves devoid OF BLOSSOMS. The
Louis XIV bodice of the green velvet is
laced up the front over a shirred waistcoat of
pale gold satin. Around the throat is a
Mediei Jraise OF wide gold lace, with deep
collar outside made of the velvet. The vel
vet sleeves are slashed at the elbows, and
again at the top-, with pulled Vandyke in
sertioDs of gold satin.