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Show FOR TIIK LAD1KS. Mrs. Conway is tho contractor on a scation of tho Western Maryland railroad. rail-road. A Georgia girl gently bit her swain's arm, and was shot in the kuoo by his revolver. A New iork reporter with a sort upper story tells a Western journal that ho could die for Mrs. WoodhulL Chief Justice IIowc, of Wyoming decides that women aro legal voters in ail tho States of tiio Union. Seven feet of feminino loveliness, all in one individual, daily excites admiration admira-tion by strolling "on the beach at Long 13 ranch." A Boston paper says the best way to Improve tho lot of woman is to put a good house on it and a good man in tho houso. A learned Hindoo lady, who is lecturing lec-turing in England, says the vice of m-teuipcranco m-teuipcranco was unknown in India till the English introduced it there A Milwaukeo woman, whoso husband hus-band had been persecuted to death by a creditor, married tho creditor and persecuted him to death in less than sis months. Time sots all things cveu. A society of women has been organized organ-ized in Norway who advocate celibacy. They can sec uo iun in marriage, but proposo to havoatiU Valentine's day once a year. A -young lady requested to bo released re-leased troin her marriage engagement on the ground that when she contracted contract-ed it sho believed hov lover a "duck," but has since found hrni to be a goose. Tho San Francisco Alia says that the crime of jerking tho hair out of your wife's head is not so sinful as it formerly was. It is just as ungen-tlcmanly ungen-tlcmanly as ever, but it doesn't hurt as it used to. At Sclma, Ala., whipping a husband costs only twonty-five dollars, but whipping whip-ping a wifo costs fifty dollars. This is an outrageous discrimination, and tho mon down there aro naturally calling call-ing for thoir "rights." A widow, a board ing-houso keeper out in Kansas, who ontercd a complaint against a boarder, gavo her age as 23, when she is 50 if she is a day, and the onraged justice dismissed the case without with-out inquiring any further. 1 A young lady at tho Ohio camp meeting asked tho prayors of the assembly as-sembly becauso Bho could not sot her eyes upon a certain young man in her n ighboi hood without feeling as though she must hug him to death. A Boston wile, who read in the papers pa-pers that Sunday inarriagG ceremonies aro not legal, is in terrible trouble. She married her first and second husbands on Sunday, her two children wore born on Sunday, and now she soca no way but to go through the whole business again in order to get straight with the world. , . . . . - . A lady writor blames tho men more than the women for ridiculous fashions now in vogue. She says: "If all men possessing a hundred thousand dollars and upward should form a league not to marry any woman who mounted a chignon, how long do you suppose the ugly monstrosities would continue to be in voguo'i1" Tho woman-women of California arc about to issue a programme of what they expect to effect before thoy get through with their warfare against vile man. Here is an extract : "We intend in-tend to wipe out all laws regulating the matrimonial relations of tho sexes." Husbands who desiro to keep their wives had better make contracts at once, or they may find themselves suddenly sud-denly anticipated under a new order of things. The Boman censor frequently imposed im-posed taxes on unmarried men, and men of lull age were obliged by law to marry, unless mentally or physically disqualified. Tho Spartan women, at certain games, laid hold of all the old bacholors thpy could eefc their hands on, and inflicted on them every mark of infamy and disgrace, dragging them around their altars and handling them very roughly. In 1095, the English parliament laid a tax on bachelors over 25 years of age of 12 10s. for a duke, which was graded down to Is. for a common man. Uncle Sam has been very lenient to his unmarried nephews at all times, but ho might do a good thing for the heavy war debt by laying a revenue ad capitum tax on them just now. |
