Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-29
FOB AND ABOUT WOMEN.

''IF you would freeze" said George,
smuggling up little closer, you would |
make delicious ice-cream." "Jf you were |
to Freeze" responded Amelia with Sc
verify, after catching Whit of his breath, |
you would make rum punch
We read love maxims with great eager
ness in hopes that we may learn q little |
of it without the ordeal of actual expert |
ence, but when we come down to the last |
analysis OF motives we find that few are
willing to take another's word in love af-
fairs.
WASHINGTON society is still agitated over
the, question, Who is the first lady in the
land? There may be some dispute as to
the official precedence Of certain public
servants in high positions, but in the
American republic the land OF the free
and the home of the brave, there is no
titular second place for any lady.
LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE has carried her
woman's rights ideas so far as to write a
love story in which the girl proposes TO
the man and marries him. To carry out
the idea she should have the girl get
drunk beat the man, murder him and
finally be hanged for the bloody act. 1t
would serve as a warning to masculine
girls.
No fewer than 10000 women make liv-
ing IN Paris by the production of artificial
flowers, and the majority OF them are said
by an admirer TO be real artists, initiating
nature almost to perfection. At present
there are many OF the women out OF work,
owing in part to flowers being out of fash
ion and partly to competition in England,
Germany and America.
Miss MULLER, of the London School
Board, has written an article for the West
D.. La E1f of
Women" which the London journals say
has excited good deal Of interest in Eng
land. But in this country any school
bov would dismiss the matter by saying
that the Future of Single Women" is to
get married-if they can.
'I'D never marry girl named Ann"
said sober young man. why not =?
asked his mother. "Because an is always
an indefinite article" he replied. To which
the old lady responded, with much heat:
"You ought to be ashamed of yourself to
refer to any girl as an indefinite article, or
as any kind of article. You make me so
angry can hardly artic'latei"
AT recent wedding in New York the
bride and groom stood under a wishbone
of flowers in heroic size, which Yves swung
from one end of the drawing-room from a
stem fringed with autumn leaves. The
brilliant carnations. The ends were also
of this flower. The limbs of the wishbone
were woven with white carnations.
NINE. MoDJEsKA finds it necessary 70
seek some relief from the incessant strain
imposed upon her by Nddje=dd, and will,
therefore alternate that powerful but
ghastly piece with her other favorite i'm
personations, 'Niola, "Rosalind, "Frou-
Frou" and Camille" Mime. Modjesks is
great actress and artist, fact which
should not be forgotten by play-goers.
Mrs FANNIE CRAPo, who is flourishing
| female farmer in Waverly, Van Buren
/ county, Mich, has had the misfortune to
1 lose her best barn and all its contents by
| fire. She confessed that she was in the
| habit of putting live Goals in an adjacent
henhouse "to encourage the hens in lay
ing" but however encouraging to the
hens it was very discouraging to the barn.
| Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES, a noble little
l and now very old woman, after winning
| one-half or thereabouts of New Orleans
after fifty years litigation to get her prop
| erty, is living in Washington in almost
straitened circumstances. She lives in
furnished rooms and supports herself, her
daughter-in-law and two grandchildren on
the $50 month pension she receives as
the widow OF Gen. Gaines.
THE negro brute, Rugg, certainly guilty
OF three cruel murders and suspected Of
others, is being converted into hero by
the Long Island people. Droyes flock to
see him. Women so far forget what they
owe to law, the safety of their sex, to COM
mon decency, that they send this savage
| flowers. Long Island, in addition to good
| and strong prisons, and a gallows, needs
an idiot asylum, and needs it badly.
THE London World says that the state oi
the Austrian Empress's health renders
hunting out of the question, and if she
ever revisits England it will be for the pur.
pose OF taking the waters of Bath. She has
been ordered to pass the early spring in a
mild climate, and leaves Vienna shortly
either for Mentone, Corfu, or for Meran
in the Tyrol. She has not yet decided
which Of the three places she would prefer
Mrs. MARTHA J. FREDERICK, widow O
the late George Frederick, and grand
niece of John c. Calhoun, died on Sunday
at her residence, No. 3055 E2ston avenue
St Louis, after brief illness. Mrs. Fred
erick went to st. Louis with her husband
thirty eight years ago, and had resided
there continuously since. She was tht
mother of eleven children. eight OF whom
two sons and six daughters, are still hv
ing.
THE daughter OF John Bell, of Tennes
see, who was the Union candidate 10
President in 1866, married Mr. Comegys
the son OF the present Chief Justice o
Delaware, who died, and although she wa
offered command of Judge CoInegys'
home she chose to open a seminary a
Chestnut Hill, near Philadelphia, whicl
speedily 5ecame the resort of the bes
scholars in the North from the well-know
perfectness of mind and manners of il
mistress.
FANNY StoTT, bright mulatto woma
and cook in the employ OF Judge Hir
5 toa, of the Supreme Court OF Appeals {
/. Virginia, lay dead in her bed on satGrda