Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1881 — FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

are you going, my pretty “To do aome shopping,’’ she sweetly said; “And where?” I asked in glad surprise; “Oh, anywhere, where they advertise.” Lowell: Earth’s noblest thing woman perfected. Wordsworth: How divine a thing a woman may be made. Baron: One must tell a woman only - what one wants to be known. Arsene Houssaye: Women always give more than they reoelve; men less. Balzac: Women is a charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as her gloves. Clusters of strawberries, mandarin oranges and even tomatoes are seen on some imported bonnets. i * .Miss Pinneo, of Colorado, has accepted the challenge of Miss Williams, of England, for a {twenty-mile race at SI,OOO a side. Miss Fanny Kellogg, tie Boston vocalist, has recently made a fortune of $50,000 by an investment in Wall street, New York. _ ‘ * { , “Is your daughter at home, Mr. Brusk?” “Yea, sir; and so is her mother.” Callow said “he’d call some other day,” but be never did. The youngest and one of the most proficient telegraph operators in the, State of Pennsylvania is Mary Denton of Forestport, Pa., ten of age. It is stated by eminent naturalists that the very rats oome creeping out of the woodpile and laugh like demons when a woman tries to saw a stick of wood. * r [■'

Unmarried men can’t appreciate the feelings of the fellow whose wife sends him to get something out of the pocket of the dress that’s hanging up in the closet . Miss'Lillie White, who is. about to marry, remarked on-Memorial Day that she oould sympathize with the brave boys in blue, having lost her hand in an engagement. Small boy (rushing In front of a lady wearing a rather large-poke-bonnet, and staring her ftiil in the face)—“You have lost your bet, Charlie, I told you it wam’t an old woman.”' « Whenever you see a woman talking at a man and beginning to ,nod her head and keep time to it with her upraised index finger, it is about time for somebody to climb a tree. The three daughters of the Princess of Wales take their music lessons at 9 in the morning daily, “mamma” Waking up and appearing in her dressinggown to superintend them. A husband who lately went to execute a few little commissions for his wife gives it as his experience that there are two dozen different brands of lilac sewing-silk so exactly alike that no ipale eye .pan tell the difference, and a wrong choice means ruin to a new silk dress, and no pie in the house for a week. A witty New York sooiety woman was standing with a friend before a picture of Lot and his daughters,which was on exhibition at an art store on Fifth avenue. “Oh!” remarked the fiiend dolorously, “what do you suppose Lot thought when he beheld his pooriwife turned to a pillar\of salt?” “I suppose,” replied the wit, with admirable gravity. “he thought how he could get himself—a fresh one.”

A Boston real estate lawyer has recorded the following wail among his own afflictions: “And here I take occasion to remark that invariably, if a woman owns a large landed estate, she is sure to get married from time to time, as often as death affords an opportunity, thus making great embarrassments in tracing titles.” Ten to one, no woman with a large landed estate would keep getting married from time to time but for the absurd way some naen have of marrying and dying. Mrs. Frechette describes the Princess Louise in Harper’s as not only an artist but a model housekeeper. The daughter of the Queen does not think it beneath her dignity to go into the laundry and instruct the maids concerning their duties or to give an occasional eye to the marketing when it is brought in. A friend of Mrs. Frechette was lately dining at Bideau Hall, and daring the dinner she remarked upon the excellence ot the oyster pates to one of the ladies in waiting to tne Princess *Yes,”Jshe replied, “they were made, .by her Royal Highness.” The Commonwealth of Maine is' making great strides in educational progress. A young lady in a Portland gram mar-school,to whom was assigned the task of writing a composition which should contain the words nal, nocturnal, sanguinary, auxilaries, lachrymose, perspiration, gustatory, somnblent, indefatigable, timidity, oleaginous, and farinaceous, has accomplished her purpose in a thrilling tale entitled “The Fair Captive ot Castle Negre.” This's one of the quietest and most subdued passages: “And even as she mused the clatter of horses’ hopfs was heard along the l&brynthian avenues of the outspreading park. It was Juanita’s Alphonso de Cassa Blanca and his retainers. Reining in -bis prancing steed beneath her casement window, he cried in oleaginous and arinaceous tones, ‘Juanita, appear!’.