Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1882 — The Ways of Women. [ARTICLE]

The Ways of Women.

Athens, Ga,, has an old nudd who will not even let her servants admit a man into the vard. Misses Fannie Marston and Sally Marston, sisters, of North Hampton, N. H., one aged 79 years and the other 82, died on the 15th. iust. within five hours of each other. • T* o Brooklyn school-marms had a dispute in the presence of their scholars, and one of them struck the other a square blow, knockingher down. Would vou like to go to school in Brooklyn? Madame de Struve, the wife of the new Russian minister at Washington, is a slender and refined looking woman, with the fair complexion of the north, and bldhde hair just lighted with gray. The princess of Wales once won the heart of a county by asking for some more of a certain local dish of which the natives are very proud. The hostess was charmed, the cook delighted, and everybody struck by the quiet, unaffected manner of the princess. A New York woman has made her will on silver cards, taking out a piece of each card >n the shape of a crescent—no two being alike—and giving this piece to different heirs, i hey are to receive what she has bequeathed them on the cards into which their crescent pieces fit. A widow in Japan who is willing to think of matrimony Wears her hair tied and twisted around a long shell hair pin placed horizontally across the back of the head. But when a widow firmly resolves never to change her name again she cuts off her hair short on her neck and combs it back without any part. Two young girls had a fight in a street o.' Reading, and one was so badly injured that it is doubtful if she ever fully recovers. A disgraceful part of the affair was that two fellows, escorts of tho combatants, let them struggle until the weaker was all but killed. She was kicked about, jumped upon and finally left unconscious on a porch, A widow at Pittsford, N. Y., the mother of six children, was married, the other day, to a newly-arrived German immigrant aged 22 years. There was lively opposition to the union on the part of a 16 year old daughter, and the young stepfather saw fit to, coerce submission by a personal contest with th’e girl, which led to his arrest under her complaint for assault and battery.