Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-14
FOR THE LADIES.


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FOR THE LADIES'.
Tue woman who bites raw oyster
should be Immediately committed to the
lunatic asylum.
To be more English than ever you
must be sure to call female servants by
their last names
Helen, of Troy, was the first woman
who wauted to 20 to Paris and leave her
husband at home.
Girls are more courageous than men.
They are ready to make match with d
fellow twice their size.
A woman has just died at Belfast, Ire.
land, who worked as q laborer at the
dock yard there for thirty years..
The Vermont spruce gum crop is a
failure this season. Due notice of the
suspension of Vassar college will be
given.
The newest prayer books and hymnals
are bound in brown or black alligator
skin, with the monogram in velvet OF
silver.
A Chinese proverb says: "a man
thinks he knows, but the woman knows
better" The Chinese must go-OW CITY
Derrick.
Mats aud rugs for halls are of polar
white fur, leopard aud tiger skins,
mounted in black fur, the edges being
extremely deep.
Denver yonng ladies who escort the
young men to leap year balls are them
selves escorted by district telegraph
messenger boys.
The button that buttons nothing OF
the bow that ties nothing is an absur.
dity, as nothing is in worse taste than
over elaboration.
Mrs. Elizabeth Richards. of Wilming-
ton, has Taught school for nearly eighty
years. 1t takes a mighty smart scholar
to fool the old lady.
House aud evening dresses are made
long enough all around to touch the floor
draped in heavy folds. Bustles and
hoops are discarded.
Miss Mamie Dickens, the daughter OF
the novelist, will begin series of remin.
iscences of her father in the Youths
Companion in February.
"Every woman has her mission" says a
writer. but he doesn't state whether that
is to give employment to the dress.
makers or to wear big hats to the theatre.
The new mutton leg sleeves are full at
the top and very close below the elbow;
their beauty is increased by making
them long and pushing the upper part
far above tue armLoles of the dress.
Ann Dunn, who died IN London q few
DAYS ago at the age Of thirty niue, was
nearly nine feet high, and weighed over
five hundred pounds. She measured
three feet six inches around the shoul.
ders.
Very short jaunty jackets of ribbed
cloth are fastened tightly over the figure
and worn with vest If the basqnes
are cut much longer they are usual.
continued very nearly down to the hem
of the skirt,
1t is said that there is girl in Dawson
county, Ga, who is almost a second Lulu
Hurst. She has magnetic touch that
attracts, instead Of repels, all inanimate
objects. just the tip Of the finger ap
piled to chair will lift it from the floor.
American society moves onward with
a great waste of energy, aud iD nothing
is it 80 spendthriit as with woman's
age. TIE charm Of girls grace and
beauty ia one of tile few good things OF
lite. aud civilization has u right to de-
maud that she shall exercise that charm
as long rs possible.
Mrs. Quincy Shaw, of Boston. spends
$4,000 annually out of her private in
come in support Of thirty kindergartens
and twenty nurseries. which she has es-
tablished III those parts of the city where
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reign. In addition to this she spends
S2llO.O00 year in other charities.
Whatever the internal application OF
hot water may effect. girls desirous OF
having good complexions would do well
to apply it to their faces. They shonld
either dip their faces into basin OF very
hot water or apply the water with a
sponge. At first they are like Holsters.
but in few moments thls is replaced
by tint OF peaches and lilies.
Nine. Modjeska's California ranch,
which has cost her an outlay of about
S6O,OO0 up to date. last week brought her
in the first return upon the amount Ia.
vested. This was the sum Of $1,000,
profits upon the past years crops. The
money was regarded by Nine. Modieska
as lucky moDey, aud she promptly in
vested in diamond diadem ani-a pair
of solitaire earnings, which she will wear
for the first time as kind Of mascotte,
in the production of her new play at the
Star theatre, New York, two weeks hence.
New York Letter in Boston Herald:
The most beautiful woman at Mrs.
Astor's ball was decidedly Miss Lang
don, the admired belle. Her fine points
were thrown into relief by white
costume, which was thoroughly subotdi
mated to the ioveliness Of the wearer.
Miss Langdon has dark eyes, and that
black hair that is destitute of gloss, and
which is worn colled on top OF q stately
head Little curls at. the nape Of the
neck call attention to the whiteness of
the skin; the buck and shoulders slope
in perfect grace; the arms are suberb.
IS The sole and simple test of woman's
is and must be whether the
{ .sk is honorable, and whether the ap-
plicant has sufficient experience and
sklli--be it in the pulpit or on the ros.
trum, at the bar or in the pilot house
and with these conditions favorable, let
womun obtain the employ ment. The
more honorable employments sbe can
enter into the fewer dishonorable ones
will entice her The greater the demand
for her services, the higher will be her
wages. and the better become her lot.
and, with it the condition of her children
and of the entire community.
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