Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-26
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

MARY Walkers present costume In
cludes Prince Albert coat, high silk hat,
and rather loose trousers. She carries a cane
and her hair is unskillfully cut short, as
though she had done it herself. Instead of
wearing an overcoat ON cold days, she wraps
herself in heavy shawl.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT says: off Mrs.
Langtry had been treated 30 coarsely in any
Eastern city as she has been in st. Leuis-if
there had been such an indulgence of mere
brutal mob spirit towa ard lady-the South
erner who believes himself the true cavalier
of the time might have contemplated with
scorn and horror the plebeian spirit of Yam
kee rogues."
Mr.. MARCUS r. MAYER is authority for
the statement that Freddie Gebhardt has no
business relations with Manager Abbey, it
having been intimated that Freddie was en-
ployed to work up the social and scandal
features of the Lsngtry engagement in order
to advertise and make it greater success.
The Gebhardt does no work and pays his
own expenses. He belongs 10 club and
parts his hair in the middle.
Miss RANNABALL, an East Indian girl OF
twenty years, is said 10 be the most learned
woman in the world. She can read and
write and talk in twelve Languages, having
a wonderful gift in that way, b. ides being
up in mathematics, astronomy and history.
She is studying medicine, and will 80 to In
dia 10 practice, where she says thousands Of
her countrywomen die every year because
they will not consult male physicians.
A KENTUCKY belle, Miss Belle Moseley,
kept up the reputation of her sex for fckle-
ness and Inconsistency. She had two lovers,
one named Handy and one named Posen-
berg. She agreed to run off with Handy to
get married. They did flee to Springfield,
Tenn, but there the young lady changed her
mind and telegraphed Rosenberg TO come for
her. He went and came back with her, and
they went to Hopkinsville and were mar
ried.
Miss CHAMBERLAIN, upon whom has
lighted for the present the somewhat bur-
deusome title OF "The Beautiful American
is spending the winter very quietly at Cannes
with her mother. Her quiet and gentle
manners have made her a great fayerite
with the elderly English ladies who frequent
that exclusive little town. She received a
great deal OF kind attention from the ladies
of the royal family before leaving London,
and attended several official ceremonies in
the suite OF the Princess Of Wales.
A BILL has been introduced in the Penn.
sylvania House of Representatives to make
subpenas in divorce cases returnable on re-
turn day instead of term day, as is now the
law, and providing that the libel be sworn TO
before any one entitled TO administer an
oath. The object soaght is clearly 10 facili-
tate the divorce business, which in Philadel-
phia has grown OF late years 10 immense if
| not discreditable proportions. The Pennsyl-
| yania Legislators would do better to enact
laws calculated TO discourage a resort to d.
yorce.
The east room in the White House is
simply beautiful. The pictures OF George
| and Martha Washington are the sole and
| only personalities in that great saloon,
Martha looking as if she were the haughti-
est, hapdsomest creature on earth. The
gown she wears, a silver satin over a GRIM
son petticoat, has often been copied, notably
by Mrs. w. II. Vanderbilt; but it is Martha
Washington that gives distinction to the
gown. One feels involuntarily like making
her courtesy on entering and departing.
| Andrews, the artist, seems to have caught
the true inspiration when he painted her az
| great lady.
RACINE has scandal in which the pastor
| Of the First Baptist church figures as one
party and a servant girl as the other. There
| is nothing in the girls story that is at all
conclusive of an evil mind in the clergym an,
while his story is perfectly consistent and
reasonable. During the excessive cold of
Sunday nig"t, as he was passing the servants
| open door, he asked her il she had covering
enough on her bed, to which she gave
negative reply, and he spread his overcoat on
the bed, and left the room. Simple as the
whole story is, there are many who 30 delight
in the smirching of some ones character that
| il is probable the Circumstance will make
| him trouble. Another man than a clergy
man would be commended for such an act,
but Mr.. Putnam had far better let the girl
| freeze and taken the consequences than have
made himself the object OF the gossip's tongue.
Mrs. MARGARET McCoy WISE, relict Of
the late William Wise, passed peacefully
away, at her home, in Westwood, in the
| seventy third year of her age, after a Sc
we're and protrscted illness. This ven-
cradle lady was the mother of eight
children, all of whom survive her-Capt.
james 5. Wise, John r., Robert w. and
William, all wellknown in this city; Anna,
wife of Capt. A. ]. Lindsey; Matte, wife of
the Rev. E. d. Walker, of Peabody, KS;
Jennie, wife of the Hon. Mr.. Linton, men,
Der Of the Ohio Legislature from Clinton
county; Ida, wife of Mr.. George Miller, and
Miss Mollie, who was a constant attendant
upon her mother during all her sufferings.
| The deceased was born in Mercersburg, Pa,
in 1909, and with her husband removed to
| Columsus, O., in 1912, but for the past
twenty years or more had been a resident of
Hamilton county, o. She was noted for her
kindness OF heart and gentle disposition-ade-
voted friend of the needy, ever ready to lend
q helping hand-and her loss will be deeply
felt and regretted by large circle OF ae-