Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1881 — FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. [ARTICLE]

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

Strainer cloth has a homely name/ but it is not sold at a homely price, for it is made of linen and costs four times as much as cheese cloth, which is cotton. A fat woman at Corinth, Miss., drank ash bark tea to make her lean, and skipped to the better land just two hours ahead of a lean woman who was eating gum-arabic to make her fat. *■ A rumor comes from Paris that bonnets are to be worn on the head hereafter. It strikes us the head would be a good place on which to wear a Ixmnet, but such a departure will look little odd at first. One of the prettiest scrap ..bags for -sitting-room or bed-room is made in a simple manner by taking a good sized Japan ese parasol, or small umbrella, take a piece of fine wire and make c iu ' a ring, catch it to the partly opened parasol with thread, tie a bright ribbon to the handle. Of course this is serviceable only for bits of paper and light scraps. ( . f - She sat at night at the sad’sea-waves with her friend, as two College Professors passed., by. Respect for the learning of the .wisa men /kept the fair one silent, until one Professor,'looking up at the solitary star that twinkled in the sky, said: "Look at Venus—how bright she is this evening.” "Gracious heavens’” she said; “atthat distance, he can tell whether it’s a male or female!” *

"Yes,” observed a friend ‘the other evening, "she certainly is very highly cultivated. She is very stylish, plays well, sings well, and talks well, dances well, and rides well, and succeeds well in private theatricals. In fact,” he added, "she’s just tbe kind of a girl you’d like one bf your friends to marry.” "Then you wouldn’t care to marry her?” suggested Causeur, "By no means, my dear fellow. While I’m looking for is a real riice girl.” f •Our girlk: An observer h«w taken 1,000 notes of the epuversation of passing young women. Out of the number 780 began with either, "Arid I said to him,” or “Hesaid to me,” or "She told me that he said ;” 120 referred to dresses or hats that were either "perfectly lovly” or "just splendid,” and the remainder were pretty evenly divided between comments on other girls, who were "horrid” or "stuck-up and hateful,” new.novels, studies, the summer vacation and the latest scientific discoveries. "A sturdy peasant from the Tyrol,” says the Fremdenblatt, "was standing the other day at a shop-window in Vienna, looking at a reproduction of the fine group bv Herr Rauch—‘The Three Graces.’ The. Peasant did not seem insensible to the perfection of form, but after a while he burst forth: ‘What fools women are all over the world! Only to think that these girls have not-got money enough to buy themselves a suit of clothes, yet th'eyspend the little they do.possess in having their photographs taken? ” (At an auction sale of miscellaneous goods the auctioneer put up a wolfskin dressing-gown and invited bids. An old man inspected it closely, seemed'to think that there was a bargain in it, but yet he hesitated to bid. “Don’t you want that?” asked thfe 1 auctioneer. "Yes, kinder,” Was’ the reply. "Then why don’t you bid and take it?” "Well; I’ve bought beans o’ things in dry goods and so on;” slowly rejoined the oldimau, "and II never yet took home any thing that|he old woman thought was worth the price. If I got that there robe for a song, she’d grab it up, pull at one end, chaw, at the other and call out, ‘Cheated' again—more’n half cotton!’ That’s the reason I dartn’t bid!” / ' .