Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-25
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Mrs. Gaines dropped her legal recreations
the other day, and sold a lot in Washington
! for 81, 900.
Miss Dickinson thinks Hamlet boy
rather than man. He was a fat boy, then,
and scant OF breath at a tender age.
A Rhode Island justice refused to marry a
man named Carr to a lady of the same name
on the ground that he was afraid to couple
! cars.
Mrs. Jenkins, the sister of n. 2. Willis,
| died in Boston a few days ago. She was an
amiable lady, and had some OF the family
| talent.
Observe how seldom the old husband
smiles when in conversation with his wife,
and how constantly aud amiably he smiles
| when in conversation with any other lady.
There are two women bachelors in England
| at NEWMAN College, who have attained the
highest scientific honors at the University of
! London. One is married, the other is single.
Charlotte Give, niece of the great Lord
Give, has just died in England. She was
| the daughter of tirc-Etst indians only
brother, William Give, who was twenty
nine years old when Lord Give died.
Miss Blanche Roosevelt tells a New Or
leans reporter that she has Life Of Long
tellop nearly ready for the press, and that the
poet has promised to revise the proofs. She
| used to be newspaper correspondent.
''rm afraid you'll be late at the party"
said an old lady to her stylish granddaugh-
ter, who replied: "Oh, you dear grandma,
don't you know that in our set nobody ever
goes to party until everybody gets there"
Ma" she said confdingly, "Henry has
asked me to marry him." and you accepted
him. was the query. mo" was the reply,
keep him on the string until Christmas he
will make me handsome present to induce
me to say Yes. You know I've been want
ing gold watch for long time"
A woman who carried around milk in
Paris said a naive thing the other day. One
of the cooks TO whom she carried milk
looked into the can and remarked, with sur
prise: "Why, there is actually nothing here
but waterw The woman, having Satisfied
herself of the statement, said: "Well, if !
didn't forget TO put in the milkr'
A novel evening toilet is of pink and
white satin, one half of corsage and skirt
and one sleeve being pink, the other half and
sleeve white, but the sharp line of contrast
in color is toned down by profuse ruftes,
cascades and founces of billowy lace The
flower garnitures are pink and white roses,
with dash of scarlet in the form of poppy
here and there.
Whatever of advertising capital there is
in her marriage engagement, Miss Clara
Louis Kellogg is using to its full extent. Al
each concert she sings a song Goodbye" by
Tosti, and usually on a recall Henschel's
"Heigh ho' each stanza Of which ends with
the refrain "Young maids must marry"
This, after she gave dinner to some friends
in st. Louis at which she announced her be-
trethal.
81 do not realize as much as did the
efiiuence of your succulent philosophy"
murmured the Boston maiden, dropping her
lovers hand and taking a fresh quid OF
chewing gum. He was born in Philadelphia
and possessed the nice sensibilities OF citi-
zen of that place. Accordingly, when asked
why he broke off the engagement, he an
swered promptly: "She much called me
a sucker"
A Young lady in Paris was recently fined
50f and sentenced to pay 50f. damages for
rushing at another young lady who was walk
ing up to the altar of a church on her bride
groom's arm and tearing the crown of orange
blossoms from the brides head "You don't
deserve to wear it; you have done me too
much harmw shrieked the girl, after which
she tainted away, but was picked up by the
beadle and handed over to the police
Miss Sophronby Waddlesworth, aged
thirty five, was reading the fashionable notes,
and when she struck the paragraph: Babies
are fashionable this season. tainted dead
away and remained unconscious for fifteen
minutes. The item was all the fault of the
intelligent competitor. The item should
have read: "Rubies are fashionable this
season." Something of difference, you will
observe, though both are dear little things.
The Carrollton MOI Journal says: "The
girl who saves all her kisses for her husband,
and risks final rupture with her sweetheart
rather than compromise her stand for pru-
dence, will Re the wife whose sweetness will
not grow stale with her husband and whose
honeymoon will never end. Respect, even
with the impulsive lover, viii grow stronger
with woman's barrier against unwarranted
familiarity. The young man who can't put
up with his sweetheart's resolution to be abb
solute mistress OF her prudence is unworthy
of her Counteuance, and the sooner she gives
him the grand bounce the faster will she rise
in the eyes of her own and all other sensible
peoples respect"