OCR Text |
Show FOR THE T.ADIES. Woman's rites Matrimony and di-Torce. di-Torce. Cincinnati liaa a girl married at 12 and a mother at 13. Mrs. Emily Stalker has been ordained or-dained in the Iowa ministn'. Corns on her leet so that she couldn't stand up, was what caused the postponement post-ponement of a Brooklyn belle's marriage. mar-riage. The daughters of President Grant and Governor ITofluian are expected to make their dobut into society this winter. A Jeft'ersonville damsel gave a young man the choice of marrying her or being be-ing shot. Just as she got ready to shoot, bystanders interfered and saved his life. A girl about 7 years old has just reached Detroit, having come all the way from Germany alone. A tender instance of modern female independence! indepen-dence! A young wife at Glenn's Falls, only 15 years old, and only married three months, endeavored to commit suicide, because her young husband couldn't support her. A man in East Berkshire, Vt, named Goff, seventy years of age and father of twenty children, having deserted his wife and taken up with another woman, was tarred and feathered by a party of "regulators" a few days since. The other day two young girls of Carlinville, 111., bound their drunken father hand and foot, and so kept bim for two days. They finally released him on his promising to join the Sons of Temperance. The average weight, all the year round, of that portion of woman's clothing which is supported from the waist, is between ten and fifteen pounds. Are weak backs a wonder? Put on sus penders, girls. The woman suffrage leaders get over tho objection that women wouldn't vote if they had the right, by the declaration de-claration that with the right would come a solemn duty, and that the sex never shrink from duty. Helen A. Biaston declares that, as a rule, ''interesting American girls develop de-velop into sickly, complaining women, who break down and grow prematurely old, and peevish, and morbid, and good for nothing, under the first burden of maternity." "There is but one word in the Bible that I would have changed," said a pretty girl the other day. "It ia where the Lord says, 'If a man Btrike on one cheek, turn to him the other also.' It is the word 'strike.' I would have it kiss." How beautifully a wifo's constancy is illustrated in the eae of the woman in Newport, K. 1., who, having had her hu-band put in the watch-house fir brutality toward herself, carried him his pipe and tobacco, saving that -he wanted bim to take as much comfort com-fort as possible during his confinement. |