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Show FOR THE LADIES. Beintf mutually agreed, a pair of deaf mules were married in Iuwa recently. re-cently. When a woman g't her back up she won't baek down. I Gail Hamilton argues that voting power Li based on fighting power. Mrs. Fair having "got religion" declares she will never shoot to kill again. Mrs. Stanton denies that she traveled travel-ed through California with one leg on each side of a mule. A Dubuque husband cut off his wile's hair when she was asleep, and purchased a jug of whisky with it. The "Neglected Married Woman's Society," at Jxing Branch, has passed a resolution inviting yourjg men to attend at-tend the weekly meetings. Beaux have been scarce at the watering-places this year. It has been no uncommon sight to see four women laying hold of one man. A Hungarian proverb: The man who on his wedding day starts as a lieutenant in the family will never get promoted. A Georgia parent didn't favor his daughter's lover, and bet him a hundred hun-dred dollars lliat he wouldn't marry ; her. The parent lot. Mrs. Mile, an English lady, has ob-Itaiucd ob-Itaiucd a divorce but is compelled to : allow her husband S jUU a year for the children. Womau is coming. I "Doesn't thin lovely scene animate?" lasked Anna of her luver. ".No," ?aid he, nothing but you can Anna-mate Anna-mate me. Oh, say yes, my darling." She did say yes, and Irs cup of animation anima-tion was full, Mrs. A. T. Stewart, in answer to a friend who asked her why she dressed so plainly, replied; "1 can afford to do so. 1 One of the advantages of being rich, you see. Tho Indian women of Washington Territory, all ride astride, usually with a baby in front, and another a little older sticking among the bundles and bags with which the pony is caparisoned. capari-soned. A Janeeville, Wis., editor has discovered dis-covered that many of the young ladies of that city wear their corsets in bed with tho strings tightly laced. The editor neglects to say how he camo to know so much, A resident of Wisconsin named Stage, has given $250,000 for a college for women in Ithaca, and promised $100,000 more on certain conditions, one being that attendance at morning prayers in the chapel shall be compul-i compul-i BOry. ' Want of physique, according to a female correspondent, is what ails most of the young ladies at Vassar College. They have plenty of brain power, but they lack muscle. Calisthenics Calis-thenics and "sich like" won'tdo them. The development is too "irregular and inharmonious." Step by step womeu are becoming the masters of men. An advertise-: ment in a St. Paul (Minn.) paperj reads: "Persons who have oontractcd debts to B. F. Simmons are forbidden to make payment thereof except to the undersigned. Mrs. B. F. Simmons." Sim-mons." The High school of ' Springfield, Ohio, graduated the young ladies of its last class in calico dresses, as pleasing pleas-ing to the eye of taste as to the hand of economy. This was brought about by the thoughtful suggestion of the superintendent and the hearty acquiescence acquies-cence of the girls themselves, on the only ground on which high schools can be long perpetuated, namely, that being be-ing supported by taxation they must be open to all classes in sooiety and confer their advantages upon the poorest of their pupils, without prescription pres-cription by fashion or creed, expenses or anything else. |