Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-06-29

the contents Of certain bureau drawer. Blue
boards wife was filled with no more fatal longing
than he to know the secret in his wifes possession
He frequently found the door barred against him
but one day, the same serpent that figured SO con-
spcuously in the days Of Adam and Eve, babe him
resort to forbidden methods, and he peeped over
the transoM. There before his eyes was the wom
an of his choice, as bald as baby, busily engaged
in curling wig Of golden hair hanging on con-
venient wall-hook. He sank into helpless heap
on the floor what he saw he will never forget, and
he is sure repetition of it would his reason.
In vain do the physicians in court testify to the
fact of her having been beref of her every hair by
severe burn in ehildhood--it is all to no purpose
"a divorce he must have and although it will be
somewhat difficult to classify under the law, it
perhaps is not too late to institute one to cover it.
Peepng Toms are apt to find in key-holes and
transoms the thing they are not looking for.
ANYTHING connected with the private life of
great men or great women is always of interest
and the public demand is for personal items in
preference to all else. An Eastern correspondent
by the name of Box has pried into family bibles,
birth records and various other annals and archives
and CLEANED ages of various personages. Curios-
ity on the subject of ages of celebrities is almost
pardonable offense, as it is natural to form some
opinion of the years that belong to the writer's
whose names are household words. To Mr. Box
is due the honor of providing the information, also
ON his shoulders rests the responsibility of any de-
partures from the truth which may occur on
subject which is to many an acknowledged weak
ness.
Sarah Orne Jewett will be 40 in September, Mrs
Humphrey Ward is 38, Ldcy Larcom is 60, Harriet
Prescott Spofford is 81, Edith NJ Thomas is 80,
Marion Harand (Mrs. Terhune) is 3d. Amelie
Rives- Chanler will be 26 next August Mrs Frances
Hodgson Burnett is 80, and she published her first
story when only 49, Celia 1haxter is SO, Mrs
Croly denny June) is 81, Miss Braddon is 3d.
Blanche Willis Howard, who is now publishing an
English magazine in Stuttgart Germany, is AZ,
Rose Terry Cooke is 62, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Ward will be As in August, Miss Louise Imogen
Quincy is 27, Constance Fenimore Woolson is Ali
nobody ever found out exactly the age of Miss
Woolsey (Susan COOLIDGE, but it is believed that
she was born in 1885, which would make her age
A Mrs. Margaretta Wade Deland author of
"John Ward, Preacher" is 81, Mrs. Mary Mapes
Dodge is 81, and Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Ham
ton) is at least eight years older, Richard Henry
Stoddard is GA, George II. Boxer is So, George
Ra oroft nnyt Ortohnr will and hio Goth ,,oor
George Ticknor Curtis is 76, Joel I. Headly, 25
years ago one of the most popular writer's, is rs,
Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson is 65, Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe is 70, Edmund Clarence Sted-
man is Sc, John Bigeow is II, Mrs. Stowe is II,
Donald G. Mitchell is 67, Francis Parkman is &C,
Charles Dudley Warner is 60, George William
Curtis is 65 Moncure D. Conway is 81, Edward
Everett Hale is 81, f. Marion Crawford will be 35
in August, and he wrote "Mr. Isaacs" when only
81, Robert Louis Stevenson is 80, w. D. Howells