Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-04-17
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The girls have abandoned the banjo
and taken to the mandolin with their
customary enthusiasm.
OF course Chicago woman claims to
have been ahead of Mrs. Potter in read
ing "Ostler Joe' in public.
The ladies OF Cleveland threaten to
boycott Miss Jennie Chamberlin because
of her excessively English airs.
DIR. Gertrude Kelly of New Jersey has
been lecturing in Boston on socialism.
She is described as rosy checked lady
with a soprano voice.
The widow of Gen. Thomas Francis
Meagher has presented her husbands
sword to the Young Ireland society OF
Waterford, Ireland.
Two daughters of the late Secretary
Folger have been living for year in the
pine forest region of the Adirondacks,
hoping for relief from throat and lung
complaints.
1t is claimed that the paper thrown
into the queens carriage turns out to be
a copy of Tennyson's latest poem. The
man who threw it has been arrested, but
the writer is still at large.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont is said to
be hard at work upon her husbands
memoirs. In that event it is safe to say
the book will be great deal better than
the public has been led to expect.
The fact that in Wyoming where wo-
men have the right of suffrage, candi-
dates mother-in-law voted for him re-
peatedly. will not convince politicians
that such experience could be expected
as a rule
A Louisville man, the father of ten
girls, has committed. suicide because, one
of his daughters ran off and got married.
Excessive JOY has been known to kill,
but it is ne to discover that it tempts
one to suicide.
The authorities of Vassar college in
dignantly deny that the girls ever steal.
That may be, but the wonder is where
such stupid girls come from. The col
lege girl that wont poach little is not
very promising, and it is waste of
money to send her to school.
Some startling statements are made as
to the prevalence among English women
of the habit of drinking preparation of
opium diluted with alcohol. The drink
is said to be amost injurious one, and the
habit is most common among the wives
of miners.
A Ridgeway Mich. woman has kept
track of her baking for year and finds
the score to stand thus for family of
six: Cookies, 1905; pies, 592; cakes,
263; fried cakes, 9S7; loaves of bread,
69S; besides numberless johnneycakes,
shortcakes, pancakes and buildings.
As the recent ship wrecks have left
large number of widows at Gloucester,
Mass, the newspapers in surrounding
towns publish occasional advertisements
showing that the bachelors of that region
intend to seize the opportunity thus:.off
ed for lettering their condition.
American women who have contracted
aristocratic matrimonial alliances in En-
gland do not generally care much for the
society of their, countrywomen, but man
age to meet them enough to keep con-
slant succession of reports coming across
the water as to their doings and sayings
in London.
Countess d. Archot, wife of the coun-
sellor of the Belgian legation at Wash
ington, formerly Miss Detmold of New
York, is said to be the most elegant and
most courted in the social world of all
the ladies of the diplomatic corps. She
is tall, handsome woman, with dark hair
and eyes, SPLENDID neck and shoulders,
and a suberb poise of head.
. Japanese women uniformly have long,
coal black hair of even length, very thick
and as glossy as satin. The secret is
said to be in the laborious brushing oft
repeated and the frequent cleaning with
fresh eggs. An interpreter, who has
lived long in Japan, says he had never
seen gray-haired person there and that
badness was extremely rare.
Superintendent jackson, of the Cas-
tie Garden matrimonial bureau some
days since received the following letter
from one Jack Huntington of Hard
Times landing, Missouri river; Mister
Jackson want yer to hunt up ther
red-headed gal as came across with me
on Their Southampton near about ten
yer ago. I cottoned uncommonly close
to that gal, and would hev froze on en-
tirely eff her red hare he'd not thawed me
out every time tried. The freeze is
powerful strong this yer, and eff yer
could only get on to that gal and send
her up I guess could stand the har or
use it for fuel