The National tribune., 1885-09-24
FOR THE LADIES.

How do you know that the bachelors could
marry the old maids if they wanted to? IL you think
the old maids all on the anxious seat to marry,
and that the old bachelors get them for the ask
ing, you mistaken. Most maiden ladies over 80
are single from choice and not from compusion, as
you seem to imagine.-One Of Them, in the Hous-
ton (Ter) Age.
At the recent rifle festival in Austria a Tyro-
lese peasant girl carried standard that was first
used i'll 1916 when the women of Bregenz. the Can
ton to which she belonged, VIGOROUSLY repelled
the Swedes.
every evening at O'clock and sleeps soundly until
o'clock the next afternoon. and has been keeping
up this practice uninterruptedy for lSmonths past
Her health is of the best
According to John Iomas a tourist of note
tho Spanish woman is but the doll and paything
of the man. in the lower grades of life, where
she is his hepma,e as beast OF burden
A daughter of the Confederate General Cheat
ham. Miss Kitty by name. has made her debut upon
the dramatic stage She Is described as very grace
ful and pretty, with plenty of talent and ambition.
-" Feminine candidatures for the forthcoming
elections in France, says the London World. " do
not seem to he meeting with much success on the
part of the women. Mesdames Hubertine Auelerc,
Maria Deraismes. Louise Michel, Clovis Hughes,
and even Sarah Bernhardt have refused energeti-
cally the ridiculous honor offered them by the
League for the Protection OF Women Some of the
minor lights OF the wolans rights societies VIII be
candidates in way. Tins, for instance, in the
Seine-et-Oise nine cifoyennes of the Cerele deS
Femmes undergraduates of Versailles have accepted
'cauddature fonctionniste, In opposition to the
vulgar parliamentary candidatnres."
"A tourist in New Mexico writes that he started
back in horror first seeing of those black
eyed beauties whom he had heard described as
characteristic of the native people. She was GIN
ger-colored hartt-featured, barefooted half naked
and very untidy'' and she proved to be type too.
DR. Comby states in lie Pro3res Medical that
20, 900 children sent annually to paid nurses
outside of Paris. More than one-half OF the Paris
ian mothers refuse to nurse their children, and
thus lay themselves open TO a charge of promoting
infantiode. The neglect of this duty is said also to
be injurious TO the mothers health well rs to
that of the child.
Two thousand dollars is the value which New
York woman places upon half her little finger. ut
least she has brought sIiit for that against q
butcher who accidenty cut off that portion of The
member while carving piece of meat.
MIR. l.. Nj. Hall, Superintendent of the Wom-
ems Refornatory Prison at Sherborn Mass. pub
lishes that out Of examination os 20f inebriate
women he has found that i25 began their drinking
Icy the use of beer 81 by drinking whisky (as punch
at first usually 20 began with wine, with ,n and
III could not remember what beverage first
used. Several hopeless dr,inkaryis far gone toward
insanity. had never drunk any other intoxicant
than beer.
Nellie Dean, the daughter of a wealthy lumber
merchant in Chicago, has created n sensation by
going to work factory girl in the spinning mills
Mt Rockford for salary of 90 cents day. In a
bantering way her father told her that he would
give her dollar for every cent she earned. She
saw in this her opportunity and found work in the
mills. IL is costing the old man 500 day make
good his rash promise. and he admits that he is
looking for q way out of the Scrape.