Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-17

Il wear it because it is so economical. Yen |
can wear It with any sort of gown; ard you |
know l have always had to make my own |
gowns / have never had lady's maid, snd |
my sister and l made our own clothes; / even
made my own bonnet"
THERE will be no paid quartet of singers
in Plymouth Church after Nav Isl, wheu
the engagement of Mrs. Norman, Miss Doug
lac, and Messrs. Werreursth and Chspin
will end. The singing for the coming year
will be entrusted to the congregation, led BY
a volunteer choir.
EQUEsTRIENNE Annie Carroll, probably
the last person trained for the circus ring in
the old fashion Of beginning in tender child.
hood the work OF life, was married in New
York On Thursdsy to Eddie Shaw, an aero
bat. The combined earnings of the coupls
are 1915 week.
A MRS. E. G. SPRAGUE, OF Wyoming, r.
1, is announced as the author of the poem
Somebody's Darling" Miss Marie Lscoste,
formerly Of Georgia, now a resident of Balii-
more, is the real author. Mrs. Sprague
should not attempt to pluck the laurel uu-
fairly from Miss Lacoste.
ONE morning at breakfas at prim boards
| inghouse ma'sm, wishing tospesk very pr op-
| erly, asked her new bosrde r-sn irsscible old
gent: "Wil you take condiments in your
cofeef (meaning sugar and milk. Eyes,
ma'am," snapped the party, pepper and
salt, but no vinegar"
| IT ia asked how and where the black
mailer procured nude picture Of Miss An
derssr, as if there was something singular
about ii. Nude pictures are easily had, and
| to attach the head OF a lady whose pictures
are scattered all over the country is the easi-
est thing in the world.
| THE New York Star says: "Mrs. Dever-
eu1-Blake is spirited and courageous wo-
man, but she will fud it very hard to climb
over the fact that 600 women and only 200
men accepted invitations TO the ridiculous
Vanderbilt masquerade. With such a pre-
ponderance of fools in her sex, what can be
expected"
The doctor who was arrested for threat.
ening' Miss Anderson with the publication Of
nude picture of herself said that, according
TO the papers, he was either q rascal or q
fool, and he wanted to get between the two
| He missed his aim, for when DIR. Griffin got
hold of him he found himself between the
dev-we mean the griffin and the deep sea
A WRITER who makes woman the subject
of his thoughts by day and of his dreams Al
night makes public his conclusion that Q
good-looking woman seldom, if ever, dis
plays her foot in public. The next time, hi
says, you see lady exhibiting rather gener
ously her ankles look into her face, and you
will recognize that nature has not been kline
to her there.
A YOUNG lady of Tuscarosa, New, recent,
called on her shoemaker TO make her q pal
of high-buttoned shoes, and said to him
Z "You must take new measure, as I've falle
away terribly" Placing his sole-stick oil
: her foot he remarked: "Well, mics, you ar
i ! looking little pale in the face, and you
!. foot will stand a little shrimping, but BY tn
power, your leg holds its own"
A BACHELOR and a spinister, who hs
/, been schoolmates in youth, and were abou
the same age, met in after years, and tn
lady, CHANGING to remark that linen live
(, great deal faster than women" the bschelc
d replied: "Yes, Maria; the last time we m,
: We were each twenty-four years old; now II
= over forty, and hear you haven't reache
: thirty yet" They never met again.
4 COMING east from Utica the other da
Mary Anderson and Mrs. Langtry trsvele
!, on the same train, the formers car being
= the head and the latter's at the rear. A
though so near together, they were yet 80 f
apart that Miss Anderson said in respon
= to the question whether she had met Mr
- Laugtry: mo; have never seen the lad
and l hardly think we shall ever meet"
WOMEN are rigidly excluded from
Malo, place fifty miles from New Orlear
IT inhabited by about fifty Malays. They ha'
lived there about forty years, having origi
as ally deserted from French ships while lit
ed more than boys. They are described as 10
B. ignorant and ferocious, with mixed Chine
n and japanese features. They live by fs
TT ing, and gambling among themselves is sbo
II, their only diversion.
IN SOME Of the most stately goods are in
Of toman silk, weven ia heavy Scottish cor
,g These silks are shown in dark olives, ras
ID berry puppies, metallic green's and reds Al
t. other old coiorr, and ars combined with
l. satin brocade in an interlacing pattern
a. stimulation of embossed fabrics. Huge fo'
e. cred Louis XIV brocsdes, which were in d
IN maud for costumes at the recent Vanderb
Is ball, are shown in pearl white satin groun
N with great French feurs. de-is wrought
d. blue, pink and reseda greens.
&c A CHILD has been born in Turkish Kur
u istan with full beard and mustache, pc
o feet set of thirty-two teeth, and no less tn,
te forty distinct and well-formed fingers. Ma
y urslly such prndigy attracted great attic
: ton, but several visitors inspected it at the
~ ~ cost, for it snapped its thirty-two teeth
~ everybody that came within range with su,
y energy and success that it became necessa
g to extract all the front ones. Ii is q wopds
" full thing to see the infant lying in Its Grad
stroking It's beard with its forty fingers.