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Show THE LADIES. Mrs. Blaine and Gail Hamilton arc i sislera. Anna Dickinson expects to make her debut as an actress in Boston. They say that Vinnis Keaiti war- b'.ea like a canary. She ought to siiiR well there arc twenty choirs iu a Keatn. A school-boy has put ou paper the fact that he would "rather be a little girl and obey his mother than be a dog aud obey the moon." Since the high hats for ladies camo into fashion, a trapeze performance ib the only thing that can be Been at a theatre without hindrance. "Lotta" us a star is declining. Kicking has censed to become interesting. inter-esting. She is getting o'd, and the public is beginning to tire of her Billy pranks. Miss Fay, of Baltimore, who with thin slippers on her feet walked a block to attend a New Year's Eve hop, made a leap into enternity in four days thereallcr. Black silk reception dresses arc now laced at the back in order to impart im-part to the waist a "glove fitting" effect. If you don't happen to have silk in the house, a Bhoe string will do. Mrs. Laiug, an Omaha woman, gliaed softly up behind King Kala-kaua Kala-kaua and stole a kiss! But the joke of the thing is tlit.t the Omaha wags passed ofl a good-looking negro fur the kiug. Mrs. Lovit, of Springfield, Mass., has forced her husband and thrte grown up sons to take board at a neighbor's, as ehe findi it impossible to spare time for housework while the Tilton-Beecher trial is going on. She is a slow reader, and geU up at daylight. day-light. Until the reign of the Empress : Josephine, a handkerchief was thought in France so shocking an object that a lady would never have dared to use it before any one. The word was even carefully avoided in refined conversation. con-versation. An actor who would have used a handkerchief on the stage, even in the most tearful moments of the play, would have been unmercifully unmerci-fully hissed; and it was only in the beginning of the present century that a celebrated actress, Mile. Buche-noise, Buche-noise, dared ip appear with a handkerchief hand-kerchief in her hand. Having to Bpeak of this handkerchief in the course of the piece, she never could summon courae to call it by its true name, but referred to it ns a light tissue. ( She told him to stay home and take care of the baby, whilo she went to a spiritual lecture. L resented; had business on hand, would have explained, but was admonished to silence by a stew-pan flying across the room in close proximity to his head. He retaliated by kicking over the table, and then that marital relation, rela-tion, predicated on a "love basis," was torn asunder. The climax was reached. The time which for years the woman had so earnestly prayed far had at length arrived, and gloriously glo-riously she vindicated outraged lemi-ninity. lemi-ninity. On his devoted Bhouldera came the horsewhip; faster and faster rained the blows. In vain he implored, im-plored, begged, beseeched her to let up, but his words proved only an incentive in-centive to the vixen wife. Her imprecations im-precations were fearful, but her strength at last succumbed, and as she laid aside the butt end ot the cowhide cow-hide carefully, Bhe arrayed herself in hex "meeting harness," and, as she gently closed the door, said: " L , if the baby cries, you can borrow some sirup ot Mrs. H 1 nextdoor." |