The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-01-19
FOR THE LADIES.

The man who shows how women who work
get their rights will solve the ugliest problem
of the period, and one in which is involved the
greatest amount of virtue. Starvation wages for
women Is q disgrace to everyone, but there seens
to be man able to relieve himself Of that dread
ful responsibility. Journal
- For the most perfect good breeding observe
the manners of two ladies who hate each other
Each is on guard against the slightest slip.-BostoH
Journal Of Education.
-' No lady can tell one Of my plush saeques
from real sealskin without rubbing her hand over
it,, is the advertisement of Jersey City merchant
and most of the ladies of that city talk to each other
from distance of six feet.-Detroit Free Press.
Nature is full of wise provisions. Wives dc
their worst cooking when they are young and ire
sistible.-- Indianapolis Journal
"A Boston paper asserts that newly-rich New
York woman got from dishonest sexton posses
sion Of an old tombstone sacred to the memory oi
some one of the same name as herself that was in
an English graveyard, and now has it set in her
Library wall, with fictitious pedigree. as a voucher
for her aristocracy.
- The women of Paris have adopted for the Win.
ter season waggle in their walk The art of wag-
CLING gracefully in furs is being taught at the best
dancing schools. The correct waggle is described
as a short step and an unduatng sweep of the hips
1t is said to be much more graceful than the man
nish stride that prevailed during the Summer.
- Mrs Mary Hayes Gilbert, of Gloucester, Mass.
Is charming old lady of l0I years. Her memory
is unimpared and she reeites poems and hymns
learned in childhood readily and in a clear voice
One OF her fondest recoectiens is of dinner given
In Quincy to President John Adams. She was then
girl OF Ia, and must have been an attractive young
person. for the President as she relates poured ou
q glass of wine, and, handing it TO me with
courtly grace, proposed my health. / blushed tc
the finger tips at the compliment but Mr.. Adams
soon removed nay embarrassment by his charming
manners and words.n
The men of America, Oscar Wilde says are
too much absorbed In business to have leisure fol
culture. To the other is left the task of bring
ing into the chaos of daily life some element o.
form. A distinguished Bostonian once assured
him that in the 10th century all the culture of th
country would be in pettcoats.
- The only living woman who has ever held
public Office in England save Queen Victoria Ii
Miss Frances Lord, who was for years superntend
ent of the kindergarten system Miss Lord came
to this country nearly two years ago in search o
health. After stopping while in New York she
went to Chicago and there becoming interested in
the metaphysical movement, bought out the
WoBIdn's World and converted it into a Christian
science journal, which is now fourishing almost
beyond precedent. Miss Lord is a charming and
cultivated lady, a fine lnguist and el-knowI
writer of childrens literature-NetO York Press
"A photographer sued in London court FOL
payment for pictures of Mira. Pearson, supplied a
her order. Two photographers testified that tbs
pictures were good kenesses, although the mega
uves had certainly been touched upn to make
the woman look as good as possible. that being the
custom of all photographers, it said. Mrs
Pearson testified that she did not want to be fiat
tered and tittivated up" and had given no orders
for any such proceeding. In trying to make hel
look younger, the photographer had destroyed ths
likeness entirely. Her hair, Also had been made
wayy, whereas il was really straight The Judg,
said that the photograph made the defendant looA
younger than she was but she had not giveI
specific orders to have the picture made ''just al
she was and as the custom was to have the pho
tographs touched up, she must take the pictures
and nav the bill.