Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-09-15
FEMALE FREAKS.

| IA HeW Cigar Is appropriately Cdlleu
the Mother in Law" 1t is always
sure to get the best of a fellow.
Oscar Wilde is describing the
American girl to English audiences
as 81 pretty oasis of unreasonable
ness in a dessert of common sense"
Nine. Michelet announces a vol
ume upon the early life of her hus-
band, based upon autographed
memoranda found among his papers
Lay your finger on your pulse, and
know that every stroke some woman
is telling secret to her neighbor
through the knot hole of fence.
Seeing a carriage full of bellies and
beaux drive by. Aminadab remarked
that that reminded him of load of
wooed.
Miss Agnes Emery won the How
land prize, at the commencement of
the University of Kansas, for the
best essay on Civil Service Reform"
The two girls who attempted to
popularize Mother Hubbard dresses
at Collins, Col, thereby excited a
mob to hostile demonstrations.
Several beautifully arched eye
brows were discovered in a room on
Grand avenue, just vacated by a
young lady who is spending the sum
mer months at Lake Minnetonka.
In the Cambridge mathematical
tripos this year the name of one of
the young lady students at Girton
College il ranked between the
twentieth and twenty first wranglers.
Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt had made
for her, just before her departure for
Europe, large cameo portrait of her
father, the late Peter Cooper. 1t is
oval, about two inches in diameter,
and was made by the artist Zoelner.
Lucy Stone was Mortified when a
Mormon elder out West told her
that there was a fourishing Mormon
Church in Boston. We can show her
worse things than that in Boston and
not half try.
A granddaughter of Robert Burns,
is, it is asserted, at present IN receipt
of relief from the London Scottish
Corporation. Her name is Mrs.
Pyrke She is the daughter of the
poets eldest son, Robert.
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway is
writing a remarkable serial story for
her paper. the The Northwest, at
Portland, Ore, in which she develops
certain phases of woman's rights and
wrongs with great vigor.
They call it q romantic marriage
when couple of the neighbors get
the brides father into a back room
and sit on him to prevent his inter
rupting and breaking up the we'd
ding.
All the same the year round: "No,"
said Mrs. McGill, I'VE don't celebrate
All FOOLS Day at our house. The
Squire never pays any attention to
legal hollow days; and as for me. l
feel just as foolish one day as an
other"
The Alice DIES Acacias, Paris, is en-
livened by three Cuban women in a
superb carriage. Each evening they
appear in new toilets, now in blue,
now in white, now in aesthetic comb
nations of color.
One of the principal graces OF
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was
prodigious abundance of fine hair.
One day, at her toilet, to anger her
heroic lord, she cut off her command
ing tresses and flung them in his
face.
A colored girl in Atlanta, Ga, was
knocked over by an engine, and in a
few minutes got up as il nothing I'M
usual had happened, and, looking af
ter the engine, said: "You's got q
heap OBJ politeness to serve lady dat
wayp
Woman who has been looking over
blankets in Main street store:
"Well, I didn't mean to buy. Am
just looking for friend" "Clerk,
politely: Don't think you'll find
your friend among the blankets.
We've looked 'em all through"
Some New York ladies have
thought to Guido the world by wear
ing wax tomatoes and peas on their
bonnets. A brace of Washington
ladies appeared on the avenue to-day
with bundles of garlic on their poke
bonnets and couple OF bets on their
tracks.
Some young ladies have invented
q new plan for securing husbands.
"They go out boating with the man
of their choice, contrive to upset the
boat, then grab him and save his life,
the victim generally showing his
gratitude by marrying his preserver."
It is novel scheme-for young la
dies who can swim; but the proba-
bilities are that few years after
marriage the man will regret that his
life was saved.
Madame Hurtrelle, lady of posi-
ton in Paris, has been arrested for
drunkenness. In defense she stated
that she had read that the surest way
of preserving furs from the ravages
OF moths was to stow them away in
an empty spirit cask. She accord
ingly purchased one and confided to
it her cloak. The weather being
chilly, she required the garment, and
the alcoholic fumes produced intoxi-
cation. She was acquitted.