Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-16
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

IT is said that the season will net Mrs.
Langtry SIS, 900; Nilsson will get 100000,
and Patti $4,000. These three women are
making more this season on the American
stage than any ten men in the business.
A FIRM in Pittsburg have put a new hat
on the American market, which they have
denominated the "Jersey Lily" But the
Norristown Herald thinks it wouldn't be
economy to buy one, as they are too easily
"mashed.o
THE Mrs..Mar B. Young who has given
over 100000 10 the city OF Fall River, for
educational purposes, was formerly Miss
chusetis family, related TO the Anthonys Of
Rhode Island.
Four supplementary volumes of the
Encyclopedia Brinanioa are to be issued, and
Mrs Msrgaret F. Sullivan has been engaged
to write several of the articles. Mrs. Sulli-
van has just completed an article on "Chss.
Darwin" for the Encyclopedia.
AT Berlin, Mass. on the 9th instant, J ames
Livingston killed his wife with hstchet.
On the same day at Lowell, in the same
State, Robert J. Smith shot his wife's brains
out; and il was not good day for wife muir
ders in Goods county," either.
IT is reported that Zola's works, brilliant
but Objectionable, have been by law sup
| pressed in Germany. The edict mentions
emphatically that any bookseller having
L'ASsommoir or Mana on sale may be pun
| ished by fine and imprisonment. This ought
| 10 increase their circulation.
The Tribune publishes an absurd story
| evolved from the inner conscience OF some
| ingenious reporter, that lady hiss made q
wager that she would attend sixty consecu.
| tive performances OF Virginia. To those
| who have seen the opera once, this endur.
ance on the part of feminine or even a
| masculine mind will at once appear incred-
ible.
| In the drawing-room Of Mrs. w. K. Van.
| derbilt's mansion is a portrait of herself, by
MsdrazEo, representing her in a white dress
with a black cloak lined with rose color
| flowing open in the wind. Her own sitting
room Is reproduction of room in Medi
cean palace She has Sister of Charity tC
look after her children, although herself &
| Protestant.
| MANY of the leading fashion Journals
| speak OF the coming season as the "cottor
season." and, judging from the beauty Of de
signs and finch of the new cotton goods tina
have Just been received in the first houses
the prediction is rot ill-founded. The new
cotton sateens are destined TO prove formida
BILE rivals TO foulard silks, and are much
less expensive.
| SENATOR AND MRS. MILLER recently CAV,
| a masquerade ball in Washington, on which
occasion their daughter, Miss Dora Miller
appeared as "California," in a short whit
satin gown garnished with lunches of flow
ers and fruiis, humming- birds and butterhie
perched on tiny punches of wheat. A net
| work of gold and silver embroidery encom
passed the whole, and veil Of Spanish lac
was crowned with wreath of purple grape
and ears of wheat.
The Wonan's Silk Culture Association
Of Pnihdelphis, il purely philanthropit
society which hopes by "a aking kuswn the
possibilities Of new industry 10 increase q
multitude OF small incomes. Some OF thu
results of its efforts will be shown on Feb
rusry 2Is,, at 81. Georges Hall, in Phila
delphis, when premiums amounting 10 500
will be awarded for the beet examples o
silk culture. More than thirty competitors
from eleven States, will be represented.
A POULAND, silk, or its rival, foulard cam
brio, is always q good investment, IS
wardrobe lie scarcely complete without
dress of this character. Foulard eilk is sol
and pleasant 10 wear, and makes o0e Of th
coolest dresses imaginable, and no lady VIII
| can afford il should be without one. BIT
the poorer sister must be content with
foulard cambria, and if taste and judgmer
| Is used in the selection and making up, Jul
"a pretty an effect may be obtained wit
cambria as with silk.