Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-06
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,

Twenty women of Iowa have won some
ice-cream by remaining together for an hour
without saying a word.
Little "niggers" are coming into fashion as
pages in Paris; their compilations throw out
the whiteness of.their MISTRESS skin.
Plumpness, milky whiteness of COM
plexion, puffy eyelids and swollen skin mark
emphatically the arsenic eater, saws Cleye-
land physician.
Light ecru canvas boots and shoes. foxed
with yellow leather, are worn for mountain
climbing, and also do duty for lawn tennis
and croQuet wear.
1t is proposed that ladies shall adopt the
Turkish style of wearing their wells next
winter-that is over the mouth. chin and
nose, instead of the eyes.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spo6ord who ia
slight and graceful, has fair complexion.
and her curling hair has touch of miller's
wings IN its auburn shades.
/ White dresses have occasionally the entire
skirt covered with narrow Aounces of
Oriental lace. The basque is then trimmed
with lace ruffles and cascades.
Mrs. Anne Haley, an English woman who.
on June Both, was safely delivered of three
healthy female children, has been presented
with e3 by the queen TO stimulate her to an
other effort.
One of the newest conceits is to trim the
front of the skirt with two plated puffs
above a plated ruffie, while the back ia
draped with puffs and also finished with
deep plaitings at the edge.
A female dentist is having hard time of
it in Quebec. The press Is denouncing her
as pursuing an unwomanly vocation, and the
clergy of ST. John and Lewis churches have
prohibited their people from having any
thing to do with her.
A New York lady of some wealth, but du-
bious personal attractions. recently adver-
tised for husband. The first applicant was
rather antiquated Hartford swell, whose
indignation was great when told that he was
head and a half too short.
Miss Kate Pattison, who will accompany
Mrs. Langtry to this country and be promi-
nent actress in her company, is a beautiful
and vivaeious young English lady, belong
ing to family of excellent social rank. She
has already met with marked success in her
chosen profession
An elegant dress for a brunette is made of
copper-red tulle over faille of the same shade,
with border and panels of darker red roses
clustered together without foliage. Another,
also for brunette, is of yellow saiin, with lace
overdress and cordons of yellow roses, with
foliage of dark-brown leaves.
Mile. Rothschild, of Frankfort, is be-
lieved to be engaged to prince de Wagram,
brother-in-law OF Prince Joachim Murat
She is the youngest of five sisters. The
eldest is dead, the two next, Baroness James
and Baroness Solomon de Rothschild, are
widows. The fourth is duchesse de Gram
mont
The Chicago Journal says: "The young
EST bride ever heard of in the United States
is Miss Catoe, who, though only eleven
years and seven months of age, was recently
married to Thomas Payne by a regularly
ordained minister IN South Carolina. Her
husband is bowed under the weight of twenty
years."
Lord Beacons6eld's poetry, which was
ever rather fiat and sentimental, has won the
honors of royal approval. Two of his
poems, "The Blue Eyed Maiden" and ''The
Green Cavalier" have lately been set 10
music by the accomplished young Princess
Beatrice, who, if she continues in her present
habits of industry, will shortly have pretty
income of her own.
Mrs. Mary Foster, an eccentric lady of
Greenburg, Pa, died Thursday, in the
ninety-third year of her age. 1t is related
that she had been expecting TO die for forty
years, having been an invalid nearly all that
time. For about eight years she has been
blind, but Wednesday her eyesight returned
to her, and in the evening she took a walk in
The street Tor the trst time IN i've years. She
was quite jubilant over her apparent return
of youthful vigor, but shortly after going
back to her home she had stroke OF par
alysIs, which resulted in her death. A num-
Der of years ago Mrs. Foster had her grave
dug, cemented, and made ready TO receive
her remains, supervising allihe preparations
herself.
ST. w. III" in the Woman's Journal, says:
"Poor Mrs. Carlyle, only imperfectly reading
the moral of her ruined life, used to warn
young girls against marrying a man of
genius. There Is no evidence that the
genius had anything to do with il. The
stupidest man that ever lived, if he sets out
upon the theory that marriage is TO be an
absolutely one-sided institution, can make |
his wife miserable as effeetually, though not |
so sublimely, as did Carlyle. Nor does it |
appear that the life the great author led at |
was necessary to himself or |
10 any body. He earned money easily. being |
better paid for his essays than either English |
DR. American literary men are now habitualiy /
paid, receiving, for instance, $2S5 for his /
paper on Werner. Froude, /, 348 Mr.. |
Froude, with the charity of a biographer,
kinks that he simply sacrificed his wife to |
his own great aim, just as he sacrificed him.
elf. But the stern and bare poverty N
which they lived was not merely for the sake
# The great aims; in the midst of it he was
Ible TO appropriate $1,000 Cor the education |
II his brother. II is a standing joke among
Is Americans that Artemus Ward offered to |
end all his wife's relations to the war for
he Union. Carlyle sacrificed his wife 10
ducate his own relations On the whole,
Artemus Wards seems 10 have been the no.
'ler attitude"