Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-27
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

| Mrs. Oswold Ottenderfer has given 1900
for a woman's hospital in New York.
| In the hands of girl entirely great th,
croquet-mallet is ightier than the flirting
| fan.
| New collars OF linen are cut in battlemenf
squares and edged with narrow Valenciennei
| lace.
Close fitting jackets of fancy red or blu,
| cloth are worn with dark wooden or sill
skirts at the seaside.
Chenille dotted lilac tulle wells are tht
latest French caprice, and are becoming to
very few compilations.
Miss Fox, who sues Mr.. Low, of New Oc
leans, for breaking his promise to marry her
places the damage at 81.
/ The fourth daughter of the Frankfort
| Rothschild is betrothed to the Prince o.
Wagram, brother-in-law of Prince Joachim
| Murat.
Tan-colored slippers, ornamented with tiny
buckles, are made to match the tan-colored
Suede gloves that are worn with light even.
ing dresses.
Flowers are not worn az head-dresses this
season. The hair is left entirely without
ornament, or else it has small digrehe OF
feathers on the left side.
Two bouffant puffs edge the short antique
Ia laid in broad hollow pleats, that are con-
fined by gathered cords across the hips.
Queen Victoria has just given at Windsor
Castle ball to the servants Of the royal
household, for the first time since the mar
riage of the Princess Louise, eleven years ago.
Two Iceland women arrived in New York
recently whose names would look we'll in a
novelette,. One is Miss Gildidar Bergsda-
lier, and the other il Mrs. Bergdodar Sneuds-
dolter.-[ PeePs Sun.
Mrs. Langtry has made more money
during her tour than has ever previously
been 10 ade by a theatrical "stsr" in the same
time, her net profit having in one week
amounted 10 above eI400.
"Handsome?" said the Louisville man,
"uhy handsome's no name for the girls of
our townp And when Boston man agreed
with him and said it wasn't, the Louisville
man hauled out a revolver.-Boston Post.
A clever London actress has written a
letter TO the lord chamberlain 1.-THE earl of
Kenmare), who revises plays and their
"business," asking that he will abate the
nuisance of ,decollette dresses in the stalls
and boxes as annoying to the ladies on the
stage.
Nelly Grant Sartoris celebrated her twenty
seventh birthday on the Alb of July at Idle
wild, on Green Bay, Wis, where she has been
for some time with her husband. She par
takes of her husbands love for fishing, and
proved herself an adept as rifle and pistol
shet.
Mile. Dosue, the sister-in-law of M.
Thiers, is disinclined to publish the notes
forming a history of his time which she has
recently discovered in his handwriting. She
will probably be persuaded, however, and
future historians will have the benefit of
these valuable memoranda, sketches and
anecdotes.
Louise Michel, the famous French Social
ist, exists in constant whirl of activity.
She is now organizing. strikes in the south OF
France, and travels hundreds of miles week
ly, lecturing three times day at towns along
the route. At IL o'clock am. she talks
about the universally of human brother
hood; at O'Clock pm. she speaks some
where else, giving practical Instructions to
strikers; aud 8 o'clock pm. she lectures in a
third town on universal revolution; and SO
on for seven days in the week.
81 was the individual cause,n says Mr.. J.
H. Carter, the veteran theatrical manager,
OF Cleveland, ''of Clara Morris's going upon
the stage. In 1862, in the early days of my
young girl troupe, we were brought 10
Cleveland. We boarded with a Mrs. Miller,
and in the same house were two young girls,
about fifteen years old, and their mothers.
The girls got acquainted with mine, and
wished TO see them perform. My girls
begged me to let the two go behind the stage
to witness the performance. L complied, and
the two misses became infatuated and wanted
to go on the STAGE Each asked her mothers
consent. One mother said MOI the other
yes The girl whose mother said yes went
upon the stage and became the noted Clara
Morris. The other girl is the wife OF nfas-
ter blacksmith, and the mother of troop of
children, and resides in California"