Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-08-11
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

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to crinolIne in Paris.
SHELL hats are suitable for small children
and young misses only.
A Lone BRANCH belle recently wore four
different costumes before dinner.
TEMPERANCE is making .arid strides in
Europa. The Duchess of Edinburgh bss nTfotn
of.
THE daughter of Lord Denbigb, Of EGG
land, has become a Sister of Charity at Rue
de BAG, Paris.
II HA9EEn never failed to notice that a bcs,
girl always makes a boss wife" said a Penn
sYlvauia minister in his predatory remarks
at a wedding.
The f4vorite perfume of the EnpressJo-
sephine was musk. A B Jstou editor seusibly
suggests that people who blame Napoleon
for divorciDg her should stor to consider this.
Mr., JOHN BoTZUM, of the village of Bot
gun, O., is worth $4,000, 900, but he couldn't
hire his wife 10 live with him, and she has
gone of with a horse-jentist who isn't worth
a dollar.
NOTICING the fact that Winnie Ream Hoxie,
the sculptures, is the mother of a bouncing
baby, the Boston Globe remarks that she has
at last produced something in the shape If a
human being.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR says: 81 had a chance
TO see two things on which Kentucky plumes
herself-her horses and her beautiful wo-
men-and now l am a thorough believer in
both Il them"
AT a recent party in L1ndon Mrs. Baroness
Burdette William Bartlett Coutts wore but a
single ornsment, a plaiu black velvet around
her neck, fastened at the throat by a solitaire
that was worth $4,000.
SENAToE CRANE, of Marion, Ks, offered
the Ladies' Aid Society IS if they would
make a quilt without speaking a word.
Tweniy-three ladies met at the parsonage,
made the quilt and earned the money in two
hours.
MRS. WEBB, widow of the drowned cap
tain, denies the story that she is left $4,000.
She has the income Of only fl5e0, which her
husband saved of the $4,000 he made By
swimming the channel. Their life was har-
monious aud happy.
WHAT is called the WATERFALL" back in
skirt drapery is English. Il CONSISTS Of a
breadth If goods finely plated at the waist,
with all the plaits turning toward and meet
ing at the middle. The fabric is then al
10 wed to fall loosely, but is fastened near the
edge OF the skirt to Keep the plaits in place.
Mrs. Rosa SUTRo, who died in New York
a few days ago, WAS the mother Of Adolph
Sutrs, the prol .c,or Of the flmous tunnel.
Five other sons of Mrs. Sutro have reached
positions of commercial power in vsr:ols
parts Of the country. She CAME to this couu-
Try in 1924, a poor widow, with nine children
TO support.
The wife Of tie American Minister at Bsr-
lin, Mrs. Sargent, in a lettsf describing a call
upol the Empress, esid: Her m,jesty eur
prised me by asking about my daughter LIZ
sic. she hal heard that Lizz.e began the
- = ~ - .--
continuing il 10 Zurich. we are much in
terested in medicine the Empress added,
and then spoke OF the civil war Ia America
and the Fr.nco-P. ssian war, 8 iyiDg that the
Germ ans lad gained much valuable informs-
ton from The Americans ss 10 the treatment
Of sick and xeuaded soldiers, which was put
10 coed use Id thei- last war"
The Vatican wrappers, which have come
into erch fashion again. SIRE exceedingly be-
coming tc tall 6lender women, and STAND
stand next in popularity sti comfort TO The
more drtssy tea cow and Greclan house
robe. These wrappers are made principally
Of fouIard, Iodia six and summer cashmere,
and for exceedingly warm mornings are
shown very cool, airy=looking gImeuts,
made of Lilac, pale pink or pare White lasD,
or Of French caubric, trimmed with yards
Of lace and ribbon. For very young ladies
are wrappers OF ssteen in gay fjulard de-
signs, trimmed with ttoh point lace or fit
tings Of the plain sliiD, sdged rith nsIrow
Valenciennes.
THE death Of Miss Harriet Steer, OF Gin
| %cinnati, n her sigbty->igh'h year, deserved a
| notice, She was a prominent member OF the
! SocielT of Eriends, and for the iast fly yesrs
| has been a good angel 10 the poor. Durirg
| the mcst Of that time it was her %custofit every
winter to prepare a huge boiler OF soup On
TWO days OF the week. This she distributed
| gratuitously at her door TO all who wished or
needed il. Even as late az last winter,
though extremely feeble, che was at her self
| appointed poet as in days gone by. While
others, it may b., have been vainly warning
| o4sr theological distractions, this unknown
! woman has been illustrating in her life The
| true spirit OF tie Christian religion.
A LONDON letter says: "a number OF fair
| Americans are conducting the campaigu Of
| a London season with a great address; that
| countrywotIau Of ours who for the past year
| has been 60 much admired by the Prime Of
Wales, and whose use OF our toemetJc1, BY
Inc way. i, surveyed with reproving glances,
ia now eclipsed in The royal favor by archer
| lovely child from the far West Hhose sweet
simplicity attracted the exp rieDced gaze OF
| the susceptible h~eir-spparent. apart from
! thsse dubious distinctions, however, a charm
log girl from New York-the same who was
| once engaged 10 a young gentleman whose
devotion 10 a professional beauty mas since
made him notorious, and who broke of the
| match On receiving an epistle begging her
acceptance of some 'frule' ~, is reported to be
betrothed TO q member of the aTistocrscy.
| Her sister is already the wife CT a young
lord, distinguished in Parliament, and cen
| sequently the daughter-in-law OF a duchs SO,
who was The fret TO congratulate the mother
| of the recent fanese, a stately lady who does
| not approve OF her son marrying an Ameri-
can, however charming"