Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-11
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

THERE were thirty-seVen divorce cases on
the Atlanta Superior Court docket at the last
term. Is Atlanta trying to initiate Chicago in
social affairs?
The ninety Mormon missionaries who are
working mainly In Tennessee, calculate that
The South will afford them about 700 con-
verts this year.
The Hon. John D. White, the one Repub-
liesn Congressman from Kentucky, is to be
married in this month to Miss Alice, daugh
ter of Congressman Harris, of Massachu-
sets.
MARRIAGE in China is effected by system
OF betrothals. Matoh-makers spend their time
in betrothing children in infancv. Their
choice is not consulted, no courlship is car
ried on, and there never seems 10 be any
love between man and wife.
LACE bonnets in black and cream white,
in modified poke shapes, are among the at
trsctive faucies in new Fench millinery.
Lscs pleatings are laid over the BRINE,
which are first covered with co'ored silk or
satin Of either bright or pale shades. Flow
ers matching the hue of the silk foundation
are wreathed around the crown or massed at
one side, mingled usually with cascades of
the lace. Dress bonnets are of medium siz-.
WE will not do Jane Welsh the injustice
TO believe that she married Thomas Carlyle
because she believed him either beautiful or
ami sbe. She had a regard for him because
ne was strong, and she had intellect enough
10 recognize the presence of the article in the
rough haired young man, who frankly wrote
that his moiher-in law might come to see the
happy couple If she would promise to obey
HIM. This was a rare courtship to begin
with.
THERE are in New York and Chicago So
called exchanges for women's work, which
are doing great deal of good in quiet and
transformations way. They are mansged ex-
clHsively by ladies, and undertake to bring
the makers and buyers of fancy articles OF
the higher grade, and of foe clothing, to-
gether. If we are to give full credit TO some
statistics just submitted by the Women's Ex-
change OF New York City, it has met with
fair success, we understand is slso the Gaze
with the institution in Chicsgo.
THEER are letters OF Mrs. Carlyle that are
sad, and that show traces Of irritation, but
they should not be interpreted to signify
isaiousy and an embittered life. Carlyle
was good and kind to his wife in his way,
which was not perhaps always a way OF
pleasantness. The csuple go. along very
comfortably together. In the lsst hours Of
her life, Mrs. Carlyle was proud of her hus-
| bands reception in Scotland The last hours
they spent together she was most thought
| fully and tenderly caring for him.
IT is cad TO see that the iujudicious sd-
visers of Nine. Nilsson are permitting her to
descend to 4 personal quarrel with the co.
called Col. Mspleson. The quarrel is an
unequal one, inasmuch as the colonel has no
| personal dignity or standing 10 lose, but in
| o. her respects the inequality is on the other
side Under the polish given by years
| Of daily intercourse with The most refined
| .ociety of the world, the peasant girl Of
| We1io sill has the uutsmsd spirit of those
old Norsenlel who turned out such fine
| line OF pirates, ravagers, Berserkirs, Vsran-
gers and the like, in the early dawn of mod
| eTn civilization, and not one of her race was
ever more plucky or fearless than this pweet-
faced and sweet-voiced daughter of the
| North. Ii is all the mere pity that her
I quarrel ia with so sma all an adversary.
! The lady who did Thomas Carlyle the
( honor to selt ct him for her husband did go
because she thought he would be a great
man. and there is no doubt that she enjoyed
a re ssonable degree of happiness mot, per-
haps, always efusive) in contemplating her
singular sagacity. She went in for greatness,
and got it. Carlyle was not her frat
love. She loved Edward Irving, whore
lunacy in engaging himself TO an
| other grew upon him until he became a
babbler. Miss Jane Welsh, having escaped
becoming The wife of a very able and elo-
oueut Iun,tic, of remarkable grace OF per-
son and N amer, deliberately took up with
the grim and dJspeptic peasant who rosred
| al the world for 80 many years about the vir.
tue of silence, that he was like the shot OF
! which his friend Emerson wrote, heard round
| the world.
IT is told by modistzs returning fro N
| abroad, that among other vagsries of fash
ion in the gay French capital, bounets and
hats are now teleeted with view TO silently
| demonstrating the role the vsrieus wearera
| desire TO enact before the world. One style
OF hzt-a 'periect love"-tip tilted over the
ewes and croTned with blush roses, is in
] tended to be expressive of Hoivete; an
| other, adorned with delicately-tinted touch
me-nots aud tender white lilies of the val.
lev, characterize the wearer as Of 8 gentle,
cliDging disposition; while formidable and
atrocious-looki1g bonnets, adorned with
owls looking wise, eagles looking
fierce. and dsggers, swords and jewel.
| headed spears, are assumed by women
who openly repudiate the tradition Of
weakness and desire TO demonstrate by 8
| seli-reliant demeanor their assumption oil
| the free rights of women, SO far as social
customs ard restrictive public opinion
| have surrendered the claims fox emanci.
patton which they periodically clsmor for