Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-14
MAIDEN FANCIES.
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Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox will con-
tinue to court the muse
Whistling makes the girls mouths
small. Strawberries and cream have a
tendency to enlarge the mouth. No
thanks.-Beston Times.
A Paris young lady, who deals in hair
goods, Is about to marry railroad man.
She will doubtless become switch ten
der."-Beacon.
A Philadelphia girl whose admirers
are evidently very slender dudes says
that women will never give up corsets
until mems arms get stronger.-Call.
Austrian brides are allowed twelve
dozen stockings. Chicago brides, if their
parents are very rich, can have two pairs.
Burlington Free Press, -.
The widow of Tom Thumb, three and
one-half feet high, is being wooed by
John Spencer Coyne, fve-foot mining
operator Of means. 81 ~. p.
Miss Hu King Eng is picturesque Wis
itor at the sessions of the Philadelphia
Methodist Conference. She isa Chinese
lady, eighteen years Of age, and is to go
back to her country medical mission
ary a,
Miss Kate. Sanburn, lecturer, says
that no two women are alike. If.this is
fact, says an old married man, will
Miss SaLburn please explain how it is
that so many husbands kiss the SER
want girl by mistake for their wife? o..
Queen Victoria is said to have nine
teen grand. daughters. An observing
American remarks that when the old
lady and her grand daughters get on a
street car a good many loyal Bri.ons have
70 hang on to the straps. :,
"a bachelor is a man who has lost the
OPPORTUNITY of mailing some woman mis-
eEable.pp "A weman's first right is the
right to q husband, even If she has to
support him.n- Both these gems of
thought arc going the rom Is, credited
TO Lille Devereux Blake.
Mrs. Maxwell Miss Braddon). the
well known novelist, has for many years
given every Wednesday a roasted leg of
mutton for dinner to the poor children
of a neighborinS public school.
A dealer in human hair says the COL
or most in demand is chestnut brown.
oh, girls, how can you wear that color?
Ugh don't it make You think of chest
nut worms?-Chlcago Sun. 7''
"A Cincinnati Girl was arrested for set
finn n n hApcaE A1fhn,,e~A =.
leap year, the girl who takes, this method
of catching'a fame is carrying things too
far.-Boston Budget, iij.'"ylAS / it"i
TIE young ladies of Augusta, Me. chew
So 600 worth ofgum year. No wonder
the women of Maine. are said to have
more jaw power than any other woine1i
in the world.-Burlingto Free Press, D,
-"What do your consider the most at
tractive phases of country life?". asked
one Bos,onian of another. "The faces
Of the country girls" was the quick re-
ply.-rBur1ington Free Press. 'H s.if..
Plnmpness in girls is no longer the
fashion, A plump girl never conld sit
llown as gracefully on skating rink floor
as sliT, ETHEREAL creature with "a jun.
DO Observation-Disclosures Press.
A flaming meteor fell in London 1the
other day. Those who. saw, it come
down wefe.terribly frightened, as they
imagined that it was q girl with q red
petticoat rambling from a third-story
window Baltimore Telegram. .
Nine. Charlton Edhofm Contributes
en. article'oh' woman Journalists. to
the American Journalist for April, OF
which these are the closing sentences
"Ah, jomnalismi Literature A word of
untold wealth lies for you locked up in
the brains and encased in the little white
hands of educated women, and at last,
since the bars are giving away and wo
man as well as man can choose her life
work, what wondrous burst ofsunshine
will flood with its golden light the vast
arena of American journalism