Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-11
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

THERE are 100000 opium-eaters in the
United states, and il is about time for them TO or
ganize joint stock company.
CROPPED hair is said to be the newest
crank of fashionable ladies. If it Is crank it is
probably turning some of their heads.
Lucy H. HOOPER coniesses that she hiss
succumbed to the frank boIlhonle' OF the Prince
of Wales, despite his peccadIlloes The Prince has
not been heard from yet.
A YOUNG la5y applying for situation as
d teacher in SPENCER county. KY, in reply to a
question, said: II aint much of a arithmeticker,
but am an elegant grammarest"
A GIRL lust returned to Hannibal, No,
engine WORK: Who would evan have dweamed
such vewy diminutive looking apparatus would
hold SO much wattahi"
Ms. CHASE, the famous New York artist,
This picture goes to the Paris salon. Miss Wheeler IL
shown at foil length sitting in u chair with ia
paness screen for a background.
EMMA ABBOTT has had a strange expert
ence. 1t is reported that three times she has been
seized and nearly Rugged to death By lunatics; a
least, they are supposed to be lunstics who would
hug little Emma against her wishes.
MRS. MARRowFAT had Just finished read
ing an account of Michigan girl who had dropped
dead upon receiving an offer of marriage from
young man when Miluades quietly asked: mo ther
don't you suppose he knew ltwould kill her?'
THE Italians have prayer which reads: 81
pray lnhL never get luaITlGu But II marry
/ pray that may. NOT be deceived. But II I an
deceived, pray that may not know of it. Blu
if know it, pray that may be able to laugh a
the whole affair"
A WOMAN in Akron, O., bothered the cen
tral telephone office for an hour and half tryini
to get her husbands ear to tell him 6n impo rtan
piece OF news. When she was put in communica
ton with him, all sne had to say was: "Baby's go
a tooth through"
MAMMA Ito Maud, who mas eeen with hel
brother TO the play, and is full of itl-"But was
there no love in the piece, thenf' Maud-"Loye
principal characters were husband and wife, yol
know Punch.
In spite OF British law in India case O
suffice, or vile burning, occurred recently a
Of the chief Of Ike village The iDstestof e OF th
sacrifice, who were and brothers of the chief
have been sentenced to Imprisonment
THREE hundred Irish girls have started
from the Green Isle for Nashua 10 work In The
New Hampshire mills. The changes to the Gran
lite State, and thence possibly TO the state of mat
rimony, win be more exciting to ths New Eng anC
verdsnts than trip to the Limerick races.
THE Sunday Argus, of Louisville, KY, per
petrates this weighty jest: Does your Helen re
mind you of Helen OF Troy?" she asked sweetly
as ;ne sofa springs hattened under a pressure o
Of Of Reien Of Avodupo Wss the scal ts repy
BLANCHE RoosEvELr's delightful anc
highly cultured sister, Miss Fanny Tucker, wal
married in New York not long since. Miss Tucker
is q translator OF German novels, ana does hel
work so well that she is always in demand by the
publishers. She is only about nineteen years old
WOMEN do something in the newspaper
field. Miss Mary L. Booth is editor OF Hopper
Bdzar. Miss Nellie Hutchinson author of many
sketches and pretty poems, writes the notes of tht
New York Tribune. Miss Florence Finch write.
tor the Boston Globe, and over SEQ women are EN-
ployed on the staff OF western papers, and abou
thirty as editors-in-chief.
THE divided skirt" is regarded BY all
progressive advocates of dress reform as ''condi
ton precedent OF all substantial improvement il
female attire" AT meeting OF the kaiiona
dress must be found, - and the new dress must be
the divided skirt DR.. Mary Walker will 5000
be in the hight OF fashion.
AN English society paper says that Mrs
Hicks Lord is shortly TO be married to q wealthy
nobleman OF England. "She is worth" it says
''f2 600 goo herself, and has survived three hus.
bands-Mr. Hicks, Mr.. Lord and Mr.. Charles
o'Conor an eminent lawyer. 1t is not known
whether she is now marrying for love or III the
interest Of some cemetery association"
MANY a woman has welded a man for
whom she felt no warmer sentiment than respect,
whose hesrt has been softened toward him by gen
tleness roughly shown and generosity unconscious
of itself. and a strong arm and true heart in the
hour of sickness and sorrow, and who has found,
after some years of companionship, that he is a
part and the most essential part OF her inner ife
JOHNNY and Tommy were playing out in
a street where there was much fast driving, and
where they had been forbidden to go. Hello, -
haid Johnny, there comes spanking team. ="
street there; its your mother and mine, and we'd
better cut sticks ana get out of this, which they
did, and their mothers after tiem.-1he Drummer.
THERE is a widow lady in Floyd county,
Ga. who has two little sons, aged respectively ten
and twelve years, and she rented land for them to
cultivate last year and was furnished supplies by
the landlord to the amount of s75, which was paid
for in extra labor These little boys and their
mother made'six bales of cotton, hall of which was
their part, and enough corn to furnish them in
bread this year.
A LADY was visiting one of her married
friends who had recently presented her husband
with pledge of affection No. l. what are you
going to name the baby?' inquired the visitor.
awe are going to call her Mary Penelope Thana-
topsis Ellen-not going to leave, are yon?" Eyes,
must get home in time for tea; III call in again
early to morrow morning and hear the rest of it
Chicago Cheek.
The report of wonderful cure by prayer
comes from Bristol, Ind. where Miss Anna Ksutz,
aged fifteen, who has been suffering since Febru-
airy last with spratned ankle. and who, the doc
tors stated, would be permanently lame suddenly
regained the use OF her limb and was instantly re-
heved OF pain on the 2Otn Ct February through
the prayers OF NJ. Charle, Gums, OF Boston, and
her own implicit faith in the divine power
LITTLE PEGGY MILLER, the child actress
In Joe Emmet's company, died suddenly on the
stage, in New York, Monday night While en-
gagged in the dance with the little one, Fritz
dead weight in his eIms. He raised her tenderly
and carried her to Her father, the stage manager,
but she never rallied. Emmett says she was the
best child actress he ever saw. she was eight
years old.
The bullet which penetrated the lung OF
Annie Smith as she was kindling fire at New
Drop, Staten Island, has been extracted and the
girl bios fair TO recover. The missile proved to be
a counterpart of those used in her fathers re-
yolver, and it entered her chest near the fourth
rib and lodged under the skin of the back. Where
it came from is still as great II mystery as ever,
although hear the surgeon has theory that it
was embedded in one of the sticks of wood placed
in the stove.
IT'S said that Mr.. Fred Gebhardt will be
Mrs Laugtry's manager next season. Rumor has
il that he has engaged the Lilly for season of
thirty three weeks, commencing next September,
and that he has agreed to give her forty per cent
PLAYS, which is ten per cent. more than she re-
ceived from Mr.. Abbey the past season. Mrs
Langtry is soon TO go TO Paris, where she will
Theater FIancaise.
SOME days ago young couple eloped from
an Indiana town and went to Louisville to get
married They did not succeed, however A
license was refused them because they were too
young and could not properly account for them
selves. The young people mad little more than
ststed the case to the giTTs father The roed'ns.
tured cid man hurried of and got the license hi m
self. and the wedding took place. IL was not so
romantic as running away, but 1t answered the
purpose.
: A LONDON correspondent, writing of the
Pnzre of Wales at Cannes and Nice last month
says: THE friends with whom he eonsorted were
chiefly Americans. Perhaps it is because Amer
leans being strangers 70 loyalty in their own coun-
try, are not % observant as other people OF the
somewhat sim eesenonial that IS proper in inter
fond of the company Of citizens Of the United
states Be this as it may, use fact that he gener-
ally associates with Americana when on the Con-
tinent is not 10 be denied"
PRIOR to the present sction, Coluu BIZ
College has made these decisions ab0st hayipa
women students. In 1876 the trustees we're pc
titione1 by the SOrosis Association 70 allow
Young women TO enter the classes, but the me-a
orial was laid on the table In October 1879. tn,
subject was again brought before the trustees b,
motion that the statutes of the college should b
O. Construed as not to prohibit the attendance o
women on certain courses OF lectures under Ger
tain conditions. The committee 10 whom fhi
matter was referred reported that the Change wa
ipexpedient, and the trustees approved the report
TIE oldest residents OF New York at ih'
nraser1t time are negro women. Hannah Jackson
Of Tventy-seventh street, was l2g before me Ias'
census was takeu. Esoecca HsInilt2n. o. twenty
eight b street, has q Bible record which dates ne
birth March 6, 176S. In the ColoTed Home ar
Efizabeth Weeks, who is 100 years olo, ana IA
sesn ali the presidents except y, ~
room in Jones's Hotel, Chatnam street MneIe
bali was given 10 Lafayette, and Pheoe Morgan
ninety-six wears old, VINO was for many years
stawardess. and who made one Of her first voyage
with Commodore Decatur.
LONDON Truth: at may perhaps interes
ladies to learn how 20 buy old lace eneaPy
Italy. When an Italian countess has nirteo ior
certain number of years she falls back on devo
ton and on her death she often bequeaths 10
church her old lace The CHURCHES are slresd
oyerstoc ked with these offerings Ihey tnereIor
obtain permission from Rome 70 sell them IN
ssIes however, have TO be conducted seeIeLly; 10
80 they known the bequests would fall or AID,
adv wanting lace should, therefore, make triead
With some influential Italian priest ana GET MN =
nrocure her some. The difference II tns sum "a
- 1ha n-iests by dealer and that paid oy Gus
Toner 10 dealer is often 500 or 400 per cent
UPoS stone near the spring a. me oIo
homestead In Crawfordville Mr.. Alex d stepnesni
carved his n me when boy. lie sPIlns nzs u =.
fayorIte resort at that age Here, ne az
have often lain upon my back ana Iooked W
through the tops of the trees toHaIc ths ~ -
watched me Tying clouds. Ny mother nsd onl
heard Of from Others, and when was se=S you :.
used 10 come here ana think here she tbsii y =
fancied sue might be IN one Of those lAss-.ss.'
clouds, and might know how my heart lonss o -
bar - The thoughts OF yOtoA are-lo1ls. tonl
.s,,ts and they pursued Inc statesman E1o-'
heSTes-Sas Young, TO the day of bis deaf. ~
never became TOO old 30 dream OF tne noe -