Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-06-02
THIS AND THAT.


year.
Mrs. Cleveland is said never to have witnessed
a horse race.
BY 'ssitting down. on his difficulties the brave
man makes rocking-chairs out of them.
Eighteen thousand Irish girls who emigrated to
America sent home $3.50 900 in five years.
II always prefer to be on the safe side when I
speculate" remarked the trusted treasurer, as he
alghted from the train at Montreal.
Mrs. Cleveland recently planted a young tree at
Mount Vernon, but its whereabouts is a great
and carry it away.
Philosophers have noticed that when man
makes up his mind that he has got to practice
economy, he generally tries to begin with his
wife's expenses.
Mr.. Edmond Yates describes Queen Nataa of
Servia as s'decidedly of the fine woman order''
TALL broad and massive with large features, black
eyes and eyebrows, and very heavy black hair,
which she wears hanging down her back.
The angriest woman in the south was the Geor-
gia wife who sat up till one o'clock awaiting her
husbands return from the lodge, and upon going
upstairs found the supposed culprit in bed sound
of vigil.
Fifty years ago much the greater part of wo-
mans work was done in her home Now, how
ever, this is greatly changed. There are avenues
opened to her at the present day that would cause
her great grandmother to gasp with establishment
could she but return for day to note the changes
between her age and the present time
A granddaughter of Charles Dickens is now en-
gagged on promising enterprise She has en-
gagged staff of young ladies who, with herself
devote themselves to copying with the typewriter
They have attained great proficiency in the art
and work more neatly than most amateur type
writers. They aregetting plenty of CUSTOM and
are especially clever in correctly decipherng and
rendering badly written manuscripts.
TO be buried with full military honors is dis
tinction which is said never to have been accorded
woman until recently. An event of this sort oc-
Cured not long ago at Portsmouth, England. The
wife of quartermaster had accompanied her hus-
band to the Transvaal region, in South Africa, on
an expedition against the Beers, where she proved
herself vertable Florence Nightingale in her at
tention to the wounded and dying. Shot and
taken prisoner herself, she nevertheless continued
her gentle minstratons to her fellow prisoners,
and when released with them came back to the
garrison and subsequently to England to die. She
displayed so much patience and heroism in all
situations that she became the idol of the soldiers,
and when she passed away the commanding officer
put upon record his opinion that she died sol
dier's death. Her funeral was attended by ten
thousand persons and the usual three voleys which
mark soldiers death were fired over her grave.
-[Exchange.
That was significant answer of the late John
Roach the famous shipbuilder, who when asked if
he had hobby, replied promptly, eyes; my fam
ily." Every true man has some object which
stands first in his thought and spurs him to his
noblest effort. Well is it for society when this
ambition centers in his family, not selfshly, as a
mirror in which to display his own success or at
tainments, but as lever by which he can elevate
his personal character and that of his fellow men