Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-23
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

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a new play.
Sheila cloth is much used for pOrtierss and
other hangings.
The "Langtry" bonnet Il little oil crown
and large OF brim.
AJapAnese lady has just graduated with
honor from Nassar.
The trim-ftting plated waist is revived
fer summer dresses.
Mrs. f. D. E. \. Southworth is spending
the summer ST Yonkers.
Cotton Sicilienne is a glossy fabric much
mbling foulard silk.
T,go Old Cats is the title of a single tale
published by the HarPers.
Gold lace and Isabella roses trim hats and
bonnets of dark green straw.
In love, women go the length OF folly, and
men TO the extreme OF Stiffness
Gold-colored lustreless straw bonnets IN
0Langtry" shape are exceedingly elegant Tor
dress occasions.
Eva Mills, daughter of Clarke Mile the
sculptor, has been singing In FtHGjoie al
Richmond, Va.
Carraekmacross lace is much used upon
fancy white hats of cream white straw, also
trimmed with white ostrich tips.
Among the rapidly appearing eccentrici-
ties in fancy jewelry is an ornament for mill
liuery in the shape of six tiny birds trans |
fixed on gilded spit.
The Alpine peasant hat called the Monta- |
guard, with broad brim bent down over the
eyes, is to be exceedingly popular head
covering for seaside use.
Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, the lady whose
friends have been trying to marry her OH TO
the President, has gone with the Outreys to
the south of France to spend the summer.
my dear" Mrs. Carlyle once said to a
| friend" never marry a literary man.. And
| on another occasion her words were: Il mar
ried for ambition and have been wretched."
Anna Dickinson will play Othello next sea-
son, and she hopes TO live long enough to
get Fanny Davenport under her bolster In
professional way. This may happen SIN other
| time-NeD Orleans PiodylHe.
Finding the house closed up on her return
from school, Julia Joel, of Ennis, Tex,
attempted to enter through window. The
sash fell upon her neck, and when her
parents returned she was hanging dead from
the casing.
Mrs Mary A. Livermore said in recent
| lecture that "a prominent cause OF the de-
generacy OF women Is the compresslpg OF
| their chests by the use of corsets. They are
not necessary to good figure. What artist
would choose a corset woman for a model?'
The duchess of Albany, Leopold's bride,
| is a short hat-faced, Rez-retr0ESse-ed young
German woman, ungraceful, but healthy and
good natured. She is simple in her dress,
fond of wearing few flowers, and is very
much liked by the people OF Claremont.
Two vile colored wenches had fatal en-
counter in Robson county month ago, and
now the New York Police Gazette has pic
ture of two lovely white girls in apparently
affiuent circumstances engaged In death
struggle, representing the Southern tragedy
The recent honors paid to the author of
Uncle TOMS Cabin recall what George Sand"
wrote to her about that book just thirty years
ago: "Hsnor and respect to you, Mrs. Stowe.
One of these days your reward, which is al
ready noted in the archives of heaven, will
also be recognized in this world"
After long and painful illness, Mrs. Eliza
Yandell Singleton, wife of the Hon. o. r.
Singleton. breathed her last at Canton on the
18th instant. She had suffered intensely but
| bore her sufferings with fortitude, and con-
templated her final separation from the
, scenes of earth with the resignation OF true
christian.
Mime. Nilsson, after her American tour,
proposes to live permanently IN England
somewhere near London. Mime. Nilsson 3
fortune has been considerably diminished by
, unfortunate purchases of houses and land in
America, and by the disastrous Bourse specu-
lations of her husband, but she still has =
: comfortable competence.
, "Clara Belle" says the new summer gait
, for women in New York is called the slide
glide, and is made up of long even steps,
, with the body quite stifly erect, but rising
: 7 and falling considerably with each length
j ened stride That it is rapidly becoming
, popular, and is especially adapted to tall,
elegant women. One arm usually bangles
at the side while the other holds the parasol.
: Johnny Curtis, the nineteen-year-oldy youth
e who eloped from st. Louis, not long since,
8 with Mrs. Jennie Dixon, has gotten heartily
s tired of his escapade and gone home, lesv-
: ing Mrs Dixon at San Antonio TO get back
e the best way she could. 1t appears that an
: elder brother of the young Lothario went to
j Texas and arranged the separation. Mrs
e Dixon's family are anxious fer her to return
:, to st. Louis.
i Mrs. Ellen NJ. Colton's suit against Charles
% Croker Ex-Governor Stanard, end other
: California millionaires, to recover several
g hundred thousand dollars Of her late hus'
(, banda money, alleged to be retained by the
e defendants, causes talk, letter-writing, ano
" perhaps profanity, in San Francisco. Mrs
" Colton's lawyer, in public letter, refers &c
Mr. Croker as "a vulgar snob, grown rich
by the genius of his associates"
Mary had little lamb,
. The lamb was very thin;
e And so the butcher blew his breath
h The lamby's flesh within.
, The butchers breath was very bad;
= His teeth were much decayed;
l. "'TwiIl make the lamb look fat" he said,
W "And lucre will be made"
is On the day of Mile. Rothschlld's marriage
II at the synagogue in the Rue de la Victoire
l. Paris, a man with wooden leg planted
is himself at a neighboring corner, with tn
n idea that such position on such an occasion
q would prove source OF considerable emolu
n ton A few moments later man with tw'
e. wooden legs stationed himself on the opPo
lie site side Of the street. Thereupon, the frs
l. conner, after an inspection of his gifted rival
n departed in melancholy disappointment.
Is A Miss Grover, the daughter Of wealth,
e manufacturer at Holyoke, Mass, has marrie'
y a miserable, ungainly darby named Hall
y who had negro wife and children living II
. Connecticut. Her father had the negro ar
u rested for bigamy, but subsequently let hin
off upon his giving up Miss Growers low
letters 10 him. The New York Times says
"The most surprising feature of the affair i
ia that a young lady Of refined training SHOULD
IA fall in love with 50 Unlocking and ill-bred
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