Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15

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IT ;s urged in e~xtenaation of Kenneth
Rayner's recent attack on rGuankina that - Is
a soured old man and that Dr. Mary wafer calls
at his office about forty times a month to see about
one of her mythical claims against the govern
menI. As soon as these facts are known a gentle
current of human sympathy will set toward the
venerable Solicitor of the TTeasury-not enough
to pin him against the wall of his Office, but just
enough to remind him that the world has not for
gotten him.
Miss MARY PACKER, the only daughter
Of the late millionaire, Judge Asa Packer, of
Mlauch Chunk, Pa, by the recent death of a
brother becomes the richest woman in America.
is a maiden lady of about fOrty-twO years, q de-
yout Episcopalian, and is noted for her charita-
at Mauch Chunk, and she will, no doubt, devote
much of Der wealth to the Advancement of the
Lehigh University as a seat of learning.
The $4,000 left by Mrs. Eddy to Mrs.
Lucy Stone and Miss Susan b. Anthony-S20 900
to e~ach-,was, not left in trust for the suffrage
cause, as has been enormously stated, but left alb
solutely to each, Knowing the characters of the
women to won she lett it, Mrs. Eddy instructed
her will to be drawn giving each absolute control
and possession. 1t was her wish that it should be
devoted, at the absolute discretion of both Mrs.
Stone and Miss Anthony, to the suffrage interests,
and no one could doubt but that they would do so.
WITH a view possibly to an increased
circulation The Critic has effected n consolidation
the people who read The Critic were not exactiy
the people who look to Good Literature for liter
ing mixture is something of an ola pOdridd. Mr..
and Miss Glider remain in editorial charge of the
united publications, and the distinctive features
Of, each of the old periodicals are retained.
While some of The CRITICS. old readers may not
care for the additional matter dug out of foreign
magazines now laid before them, it is probable
that The Critic and Good Literature may stir up
the literary activity ofsome of the former readers
of its eclectic half.
THE most notable examples of self
evolvement in women have been furnished by
France as far back as we may look. No other
country has produced such brilliant women in
number OF varied ability. In no other country
have women played so notable a part in public
events, nor approached them in influencing the
men who shaped those events. Yet most of these
women were the early. product of the convent,
where elegance rather than severity of education
was the aim: But the French woman's develop
ment was largely, due to the best French male
minds, who made her salon the theater of their
thought, thus without any elaborate theorizing
lifting her at once to their own plane. How
different this from the Teuton, who, while max
ing the finest sentiments about woman, cannot
brook seeing her rise beyond the haus frau, with
her bunch of keys and domestic round of inter-
ests.
ALTHOUGH there are three or four more
large balls yet to come before Lent, dancing par
crease in Philadelphia, so that it seems that lin
crease of appetite comes with what it feeds upon
The bellies of Philadelphia are what are known as
dancing girls and not only begin young but
keep 1t up late in life. There are more dancing
married women to the square inch in Philadel-
phia and more young old girls who trip it nimbly
whenever they can get n partner than any other
place where dancing looms into prominence as a
me art. II is the custom there before any large
ball for ladies who have grown a little rusty to
brush up" a little, and accordingly they have
recourse to the dancing-master. The day before
the last Assembly n most pronounced "oid girl
she was fifty years old if she was n day-entered
the domain of a fashionable teacher and told him
in "A grand way, with a great deal of manner, that
he must consider himself engaged to practice
with her for the Assembly and 1.-THE interview
must be secret
SONG OF THE ALL-W00L SHIRT.
My father bought an undershirt
Of bring and flaming red
"Ali-woCl, I'm ready to assert,
Fleece dyed the merchant said.
Your size is thirty-eight, l think;
A forty you should get,
Since all-wool goods are bound to shrink
A trihe when they're wet
That shirt two weeks my father wore
Two washings, that was all
From forty down to thirty-four
1t shrank like leaf in fall.
| wore it then n day or two,
But when twas washed again
Ny wife said, Now twill only do
For little brother Ben
A fortnight Ben squeezed into it,
At last he said it hurt.
We put it on our babe-the fit
Was good as any shirt.
We ne'er will wash it more while yet
We see its pickering light,
For if again that shirt is wet
Twill vanish from our sight.