Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-08
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

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remarked the Princess Louise, as she parte,
from her husband 10 &c to the opera.
Syracuse has female architect" Nor
ristown hasn't female architect, but she ha
more than one designing woman.-NoYris
tou'i Herald.
Oscar Wilde's mother Francesca, who is
like Charlotte Cushman, picturesquely ugly
| is a daughter of the late Archdeacon Eigee
and is best known for her fiery rebel poems
in the Nation, under the signature Of "Sper.
anza."
| His Honor, to the bride elect: "Are you
willing to take Mr.. y here present, as your
| husband7" Bride-elect: Thank you, sir
l am not" His Honorl "But, my child
| you should have said so before coming here i'
Bride-elect: "Oh, sir you are the first per-
son that has consulted my wishes in the mat
| terLPdris Figaro.
In recent sermon Bishop Pierce, of the
| Methodist Episcopal Church South, de-
| nounced dancing the silliest and most nom
sensical amusement that rational beings So
called, ever engaged in. He said that it had
Its origin in heathenism, being a pastime of
savages; appealing to the lower instincts of
humanity, and being the chosen sport of the
vilest and most imbruted of the human race.
Forbidden ground. Gle had been intro
duced to girl from Boston, and together
backed album. And shall you hang up
your stocking" he inquired, as they talked
of Christmas. 'SirP exclaimed the Boston,
girl, drawing herself up proudly and fixing
her quivering glasses firmly on her nose, let
me never hear you speak to me again And
she swept grandly out # the room, while
the young man went AMI laid his astonished
head against the frosty window-pane."
Rockland Courier.
A New York girl, who evidently dotes on
the Gainsborough hat, which is now being
subjected to savage criticism from certain
theater-goers, recently wrote a note to the
Herald, in which she scored a big point
against the assailants of the headgar in ques-
ton. 81 contend" said she, "that the fashion
followed by so-called gentlemen of discom-
moding and crowding past ladies to get a
drink or smoke cigarette between the acts
is greater nuisance than the Gainsborough,
and one that ought to be abolished" This
is a direct shot in the eye.
The chief of police of New York city says
that three-fourths of the abandoned girls in
this city were ruined by dancing. Young
ladies allow gentlemen privileges in dancing
which, taken under any other circumstances
would be considered as improper. 1t re-
gu res neither brains nor good morals to be
a good dancer. As the love of the one in
creases the love of the other decreases. How
many of the best men and women are skill
full dancers? In ancient times the sexes
danced separately. Alcohol is the spirit of
beverages. So sex is the spirit of the dance;
take it away and let the sexes dance sepa-
rately and dancing would go out of fashion
very soon.
The English journals, in discussing the
question of domestic poisons, suggest as
protection or remedy law prohibiting the
use of arsenic in the manufacture of any and
all fabrics for domestic purposes-that Is in
all those processes which leave the arsenic in
the finished goods. 1t appears that the trade
interests involved in this practice have been
to scientific investigation, and the
alleged advantages in the employment OF
arsenic for wallpapers, etc, are shown to be
for the most part imaginary. Among the
the use of arsenical pigments
is being abandoned, and in other industries
also they are much less resorted to than for
merly. But Notwithstanding this, and the
well-known fact that two UT three grains of
the article will destroy life, the production
of arsenic in England last year was nearly
five thousand tons.
Miss de la Rame ("Ouida") has rechrist-
ened her little comedy, Cloth Of God and
Cloth Of FTieze, and now calls it Resarqo-
hardly an improvement. The motto defines
the story:
To match thysef with cloth of freize-
The hero is an English earl, who as a very
young man marries a beautiful French
peasant girl of fifteen. After six months he
tires OF her ignorance and her social blum
ders, and sends her to a convent to be edu-
Gated. There she is supposed to drown her
self in the moat of despair at being so cast
off. Ten years after the earl visits Rome,
where he meets Madame Glyon, a noble
creature and a great artist, whose pictures
he delights in. Here the comedy opens; and
who the lovely artist really is, and how the
earl falls in love again with his own wife
ignorant of her identity, is easily coniec-
tured. Many striking and picturesque COM
plications naturally arise from this plot 1t
IS the first time "Ouida" has undertaken to
Use the dramatic form. The comedy will
run through four numbers of Harper's
Weekly, beginning with that of January eth.
In this country We have tremendous ex-
rayagance, and in some respects luxury, but
ire silt long way off from the fullest com
'ination OF luxury and comfort, and often
Exhibit mere luxury under conditions so un-
quail as to provoke the smiles of the cynic,
Q whom lady in $500 toilet going out in