Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-10

plleQ CafrIe. i II take you some time Wnen
/ want to look especially handsome. "-Bos-
ton Transcript.
Troy Times: "She decorated her room with
5rte-d-brae and pictures, and placed her hus-
bands photo on the topmost nail Then she
sat down TO admire her work, and blissfully
remarked: Now everything is lovely, and
the goose hangs high"
According to a correspondent of the New
York Sun, the ladies of that city have con-
tracted habit of biting their lips and con-
tOrtlng the lower parts OF their faces, which
fails to improve homelv countenances and
renders pretty ones less attractive.
Mrs Marion Mulhall, author of Betueen
the Amazon and the Andes, is a brunette, short
and stout with strongiy-msrked features,
the looks of Spaniard, the independence of
an American, the constitution Of an Indian,
and the wit OF her native land, Ireland.
Mrs. Langtry has been very successful at
Edinburgh. Not only was the theater full
each week, but crowds watched her and
cheered whenever she left her hotel or the
theafer. The students at the University,
after her iast performance, accompanied her
carriage down Prince street
The Woman's Peace Association celebrated
Decoration Day at their rooms in Boston.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe made the opening
address, in which she said that women were
the universal peace makers, and that it was
their duty to accomplish their mission by
teaching children 10 hate wars.
How many young ladies we daily meet
who are preiIy-some beautiful-who dress
richly and with taste, and whose manners
are apparently without reproach, until the
wabbling of her mouth reveals the fact that
she is chewing gum. Then all the charms
she possessed vanish, and we observe only
the rudeness of her hahit
Mrs. Sprsgue is said to have regained her
good looks, and, since the settlement of her
case, has boomed out again into the wonder
ful beauty that SO long made her the pride and
toast OF Washington. She is pronounced by
good judges to be much handsomer woman
than Mrs. Langtry, possessing equally with
her the magnetic attraction that Is superior
to mere bodily symmetry.
A dispatch from Galveston, Tex, says
that Nine. Rosa De Verdi, champion rope
walkist and contortionist, wife OF Prof. w
+. De Verdi, left her husband Monday night
taking with her their mutual bank account
aud jewelry. She has set out, it is supposed
for her old home among the mountains Of
Virginia. where she met the professor some
nine years ago, fell in love with him, eloped
and was married. Her maiden name was
Rosa Hampton, and it is stated that she is
closely related to the distinguished senator
from South Carolina.
Celia Logan, a member of the talented Lo-
gan family, will take the platform next sea
son with new lecture entitled Actresses
She is under the management of Major Pond.
The lady will treat her subject historically
in the beginning, going back to the first
actresses on record. Fannie Ellsler, Nell
Gwynne, Charlotte Cushman and other fam
Gus ladies are alluded TO. Another point is
"British prejudice sgainst actresses, and how
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speak of the value of the actress as factor
in business and society, and answer the ques-
ton: Does the actress merit ostracism be-
cause of her calling?
If any woman in the country deserves
we'll of its bounty it is Mrs. Priscilla d,
Twiggs of Baltimore, who in her eighty
first year asks Congress for an increase OF
her pensiou from S25 to $50 per month upon
the following grounds: That her grandfather,
Commodore Decatur, served 10 the French
war; that his two Sons, Stephen Decatur
and James Decatur, served galiantly at
Tripoli and the latter was killed there; that
her father was in the marine corps at the
time OF his death; that both of her brothers
were lIeutenants in the navy. the elder being
lost at sea; that her husband fell at the
storming of Chapultepec; and that her son
was killed month before while on his way
TO join his uncle, General d. E. Twiggs,
as aid.
Adelins PATHS recent victorious lawsuit
with her friend Stevens occasioned no little
amusement in England. The case was tried
before Baron Huddleston and a special jury.
Stevens is gentleman who lives in the
vicinity of the diUo's Welsh castle. He is
known by the nickname of Vict5r Emanuel.
from a resemblance he bears to the dead
monarch. His business appears to be COM
missions, and in the latter capacity he acted
for the primG donna, and succeeded in obtain
ing considerable percentage deducted from
divers accounts cent in by Nine. PATHS
trades-people. He then claimed, by way Of
payment, one-half of the sums he mad saved
through his efforts. Madame declined, and
said she supposed he had taken the trouble
con d1nore. In cross examination the fair
cantatrice admitted that she had no opinion
of Nicolini's business capacity, and further
owned TO having desired Stevens to keep the
overcharged bills dark" as mic was very
mean and stingy." Judge and jury, how
ever, were not to be moved by Stevens's
doleful tale, and Patti obtained the verdict.
Baron Huddleston is the husband of Lady
Diana Beauclerc, daughter Of the Duke Of
St. Adams, Nell Gwynne's direct descendant.
The lady is noted for her very long eye
lashes, and is supposed to be the prototype of
Tennyson's Lady We're de Vere."