The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1890-11-15
FOR LADIES ONLY.
Facts andsF ancies Furnished for Gods
Last and best Gift to Man.
Items of Every Imaginable Sort Which
Are of Special Interest to the La -
dies-Fashions, Woman's
World.

A gastronomic novelty is pudding
made of wedding cake.
In Holland watcbwomen are found at
| all the railway stations, instead of men.
A Binghamton woman brought suit
against her divorced husband for breach
of promise. ...
Cutting off wife's nose is still
favorite mode of punishment by jealous
husbands in India. '.-.
man of thirty wears was arrested at
Williamsport, Pa, for larceny, gave his
occupation as that Of dude.
A Pennsylvania woman, her daughter,
and her granddaughter, each gave bath
to twins on the same evening recently.
A native of Japan has just been d.
vcrced from his thirty-fifth wife, and at
thirty. sixth.
A woman may be divorced in China
for thievishness, wanton conduct, neglect
of husbands parents, childlessness. jeal.
ousy, malignant disease.
Pine Level, hamlet in Louisiana,
boasts of a phenomenon in the shape of
a girl not quite 10 years old who has al
ready attained the height of 5 feet 10
inches. .-. =.n ~...-. 4
The Japanese believe that woman
grew on a tree, the Laplanders that she
was once rabbit, the Parislans that she
fell from the heavens, and the Austria
lians that she was once toad.
A well.to do woman of Sedal1a per-
sisted in sending her little daughter on
the streets to beg until the authorities
threatened to arrest the child. What
was the matter with arresting the moth
er without making any threats?
Several of the large institutions for
women in Englang have organized fire
brigads composed exclusively of women.
The ladies' understand and perform their
duties we'll, but have not yet found a
costume that is entirely satisfactory.
The oldest person fonnd blythe police
as census takers in New York is Lucy
Ridley, who gives her age as III years.
If her record is right sh saw the light
first when the patriots in this country
we're drumming up delegates for the
first Continental Congress. s.t
Two young men III Moberly, Mo-,
went to a. fortune-teller to learn what
their fate would be they proposed.
Their sweethearts heard of it, and re-
fused to have any thing more to do with
men who had not nerve enough to go to
headquarters for information.
Mrs. Augusta Ekblom of Brooklyn,
who is seeking divorce, was married
three times in year. When she is un-
married again she should go to Persia,
where women are permitted to marry
for day, week, month, or longer
stipulated period, just as they feel in.
clined.
A Rode Island girl had no sooner mar
ried than sic opened debit and credit
account, and last week, after four years
of welded life, she applied for divorce
and showed her books to prove that he
had called her over four thousand harsh
names. His credits were only sixteen
'darlings." Free Press. M.
In England, Scotland and Wales, wo-
men, unless married, vote for all officers
except members of parliament, and
some of them now hold offices as school
directors, aldermen and city council
men, and bill has been introduced to
give them, whether married or single,
the absolute right of suffrage.
Miss Flora Grace, of Iowa, whose
name suggests rather the aesthetic than
the practical. is the inventor of cook
ing Thermometers, which, instead Of reg
intering summer heat, blood heat"
and free zing point, = marks the boiling
point for meat, the gently simmering al.
titude and the varying baking points for
meats, bread, cake and pies. g
One of the handsomest. young ladies
of JEFF City, who has spent large
amount of money and much time inper-
fecting herself in music, was recently
| unanimously invited to play at social
gathering. She is fine performer at
the piano and readily granted the re-
quest. The Introductory was not COM
pleted before every soul in the room
was busy talking secrets. Suddenly the
music stopped and . dozen sentences
were bitten off right in the middle. The
young lady arose from the instrument
saying: Please continue your CONVEX
sations. I feared the music might dis
turb You.''
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