The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-06-16
The Ladies.

This is the season Of the year at which
the ehundred-dollar rug is hung out owe rth
front balcony, while the old rag carpet i
aired out under the back stoop.
In recent sermon Mr.. Talmage said
that the intpxiration of fashionable wo
men was not uncommon. 'SSociety
saws she vas taken suddenly ill Of the
erman. The fact is she took too much
champagne and mixed liquors, and Got
drunk. -
Her Imperial Majesty of Austria is q
poet as we'll as a fearless rider and hunter.
And now she has had a printing office set
up in her palace and is learning to set
type and manage press in order that she
may print her own s.--Ieslie's Illus
trat ted.
II Washington: ''What does that fig
ure on The capitol represent?' Liberty" "
s'Frm9lr figure, is it not:o Eyes. "
Every p'etty; but what kind of a woman
is that symnGI of liberty and indepen-
dence supposed to be?' "a servant girl,
believe Philadelphia News.
Lace making has always been mixed up
with needle work. and was derived from
open-Work embroidery. In England
earIi~r iaces were termed pdsSa11aents, from
which comes the word passementerie, APP
piled to ginps and braids; they are espec-
tally insepatable this season, the cut-out
laces resembling the light embroideries
and passementeries with gfenadine eff
fects, par1aking of the character Of both.
When those New Workers do go wild
with delight over an actor or actress, they
act like crazy people. Lately ii burlesque
actress has nightly been kicking her slip
per into the audience, and one night the
gentleman who caught it took it to his
club, and the members drank wine out Of
it. ! told this story to another lady in the
same branch of the business, who has no
love for the owner Of the slipper. each
drank Il slipperful to her health?" she
asked. "Yes." F'Wen," she remarked,
"they must all have got pretty drunk"
A calm, blue-eyed self-possessed young
lady received long call from A plying old
spinster, who, after pr0longing her stay
beyond even her own conception of the
young ladY's endurance, came to the main
question which had brought her thither.
Il have been asked good many times if
you are engaged to DR.. C. Now, if folks
inquire again whether you be or not, what
shall | tell 'em | think ?'-"Tell them, )"
answered the young lady, fixing her calm
blue eyes in unwavering staa5 ess upon
the inquisitive features Of her interroga
gator, ''that your think you don't know,
and that you are sure it is none of your
business"
In l840, when Harriet Martineau visited
this country, SHE showed that only seven
vocations were open to women who want
ed to work. These were keeping boarders,
setting type, teaching needle-Work, labor
in cotton mills, and folding and stitching
in book binderes. Now there are 294 oc-
cupations open to women in Massachusetts,
and 25l, l5S members Of the gentler sex in
this State alone earn their own living, re-
ceiying $50 to $4,000 each per anum.
This does not include amateurs or mothers
and daughters in the household. AS there
are 10000 surplus women in Massachu-
setts these new avenues of employment
are widely appreciated.
New YORK, May 17.-Alice thinner
man, the young, handsome and cultured
wife of Frank Zimmerman, an artist, to-
day, while insane, killed her twelve-days
old little daughter and attempted to kill
her mother. The young wife for some
days prior to her confinement took an aver
sion to her husband, mother and friends
Her babe awakened 10 feelings in her
breast and she declared that she hated it.
Twice since her sickness she has attempt
ed suicide. To-day she induced her
mother 10 leave the room, and during her
absence plunged pair of scissors into the
lHldIl iitth. sue tHGli alLaCkGu her
mother but was overpowered. She will be
sent to an asylum.
A mild minister and matter of money !:
A postman left two letters at the residence
of Chicago minister, both of which con-
tanned application for his services to per-
form tn marriage ceremony at the same
time. Il hardly know what to do,o he
remarked to his wife. s'I can't aceomo-
date them both. Let me see-Mr A has
been married before, has lie not2'' "Oh
yes" replied his wife: she lost his first
wife six months ago." "And Mr.. B is a
baehelor2a "Yes.'' ''That settles it, then.
shall marry Mr.. B. When man mar
ries the second time he never pays the
minister any more than the law allows,
but yonng bachelors are sometimes very
foolish, = and the good man rubbed his
ha Ids mildly.-Chieago Cheek.