Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-24
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Fortv Puddinos is new light cookery
book issued from the press OF Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons.
Chester A. Arthur, jr, and Miss Maude
Crowley, daughter of Richard Crowley, OF
New York, are to be married early next
month.
Some one claims that younger children are
generally smarter than the first-born. ls 1t
because the frst-born gets come much atten-
ton from grandmother?
A Wisconsin parrot has been attending
camp. meeting, and now shouts GioTy TO
Godp' "Amenw etc., as il it were really a
good bird.-CoiTier-Jou Journal.
A tramp had an Illinois woman arrested
for giving him a bogus half-dollar, and an
exchange naively suggests that it is best to
deal squarely even with the tramp.
New Jersey girls, it is said, wear newspa-
per leggins against mosquitoes, which &C.
counts for the large circulation in that State.
and the remarkable intelligence OF the native.
Mrs. Garfield is branching out extensively.
Her new establishment at Cleveland will re-
quire $4,000 year to run it. When Car
! field was = representative he lived very
plainly.
Mary Cooper. of Philadelphia, was SO
frightened at seeing man with The detirtnn
tremens that she was dumb for several days.
lived in Illinois.
Mrs. Partington honorsd us with a call
this morning. She is looking well and she
says she is tike the windows OF a renovated
house-all the old panes are out OF her and
the pneuDadtics are things OF the past.
/ New York Mail: "An angry cook at New
port, the other day, is said to have served a
soup of mucilsge, OF which the entire family
partook In bissful ignorance OF iis compost
ton. This is a seaside romance that ought
to stick.
The Washington correspondent OF the Bal
timoIe Day says that Mrs. Butler, wife OF the
South Carolina senator, has ordered thor
ough renovation OF her beautiful home and
promises to give many charming receptions
during the season.
Lady Florence Dixie ia doing more than
merely to talk and write in behalf of the
poverty stricken inhabitants of the west
coast OF Ireland. She is soliciting contribu-
tions for their relief, and has received as
much as $4,000 ia single week.
A report of the supreme secretary OF the
Knights and Ladies of Honor shows that the
order has SIT subordinate lodges, with q, 900
members. tn Knights have paid $202, 452
into the relief fund during the past six years,
while the Ladies have contributed S233, 852
The death benefits paid aggregate $3.50, 600;
600 on account Of Ladies.
! Fashionable wedding card ceremonies
have gone TO the length OF inclosing the
cards OF the bride, the groom, the brides
father the brides mother, the young mar
ried couple at home and the clergyman per-
forming the ceremony. These are all in
closed in one large envelope. Why not in
clude the "hired man" and the sisters and
the cousins and the aunts of the happy pair?
Woman's influence: "Do i believe in
woman's infiuence?" said a man on Twenty
second street recently. SWELL, you see that
young fellow trundling a baby carriage along
the etreet with look of resignation on his
face an inch and half thick? / knew that
fellow when he would swell around town as
big as q circus advance agent, and order beer
for the crowd. He doesn't do it any more"
Brooklyn argus.
On the banks of the Keanebec river, few
miles below Bah, lives an old lady. Years
ago she cried SO hard when she was about TO
be married that il was with difficulty she
could be paci6ed. On being Intercepted as
to the cause of her grief, she replied that it
made her sad to thing that she was to live
so near the steep bank of the river where her
children would daily be in danger of falling
over and being drowned. The lady has now
lived there about fifty years, and has never
had q child.
"Here's that yeast" said little girl to
the lady of a family which had recently
moved into the neighborhood.
"Why couldn't your mother use it?" in
quired the lady.
"Oh, we buys all onr bread at the bakers"
"Buy all your bread? Then what did you
want with my yeastY
"Ob, ma said she couldn't think OF any
thing she needed TO borrow Just then, and she
wanted TO see if you could be depended on
in an emergency, 60 she tried you on the
yeast"
The modern prevalence of the colt African
examinations to girls names is an interesting
subject. In the society department OF the
Kansas City Sunday Times, OF the 10th in
slant, we notice these sweet names: Hattie,
Efie, Ella, Lou, Lizzie, Ids, May, Mamie,
Maggie, Fannie, Alta, Jennie, Annie, Pau
Inns, Addie, Alma, Mollie, Matte, Flora,
Flo, Allie, Rosa, Nellie, Carrie. Minnie,
Mimi, Marie, Sallie, Love, LInds, Dora,
Daley, Coatie, Lola, Katie, Lulu, Doray,
Birdie, Eva, Kittie, Lille, Jessie. Some Of
these are often repeated, if the much
strained invention of names in ie and other
soft terminals were running out.