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Show TUE LADIES. Six Nnv York school rnUtredsca lmve gone to Buenoa Ayree. They tried n itarket woman in Baltimore lust week lor being ft common com-mon acoltl, and acquitted her. Very nhnrt in front is tho new rule for Indies' sircot dreso3. No more shots down ul the houls, plouae. A colony of tiitn Fr.incUoo wonin hiivo umlcriuksn to solve the women problem by buying ft big farm and going to work fur themselves. The huliea of tho diplomatic corua at Washington think that Mrs. Grunt treated them boorishly after she left the while house- in not roturning their calls. Mrs. Hayes would aa leat not Havana mnobing about tho white house, and whatever Mrs. Hayei may decide upon, she will have the president presi-dent to back her. An exchange remarks: "The only jokes which women like to read are those which reflect ridicule ou men. Yes. On taking up a paper ft woman i invariably turns to the marriage column. Two ragged little urchins were Btaudingin the gutter looking at a lady who had just f Allen down on the pavement. "It isn't eo much that I like orange," observed ono of them, "but what a lot of people you can bringdown with tho peel." A Connecticut man, to excuse the uon appearance of hia daughtor, wrote: "Sho has run Down & hur Strength exested She was Six last Somer lore meney weeks & She has Aperenla of a Similar Atact agnno you will please excuse hur tore the present." pres-ent." A New Yorker threw a mince pie at his wife and she got a divorce. A man who will wantonly Bquauder a mince pie that way, when hundreds of New Yorkers are in a starving condition, doesn't deserve to have a , wile. Why didn't he throw the pie . diah? There ia a womaw I have met within twenty-four boura who has a ' drunken husband and live children, i She is not a Cbriatian, but if alio will only take Christ into that home and just live for Christ, it won't be long before that hiuband ia won to the Savior. Moody. A women recently eutsred a store in Connecticut aud sat down in front ot an iron aafe to warm her feet. After Bitting Borne twenty or thirty minutes she remarked that she never "did like them kind of Btovea they don't throw out scarcely any heat, those gas-burnera don't." Anna Dickinson is mad hecauec people call her middle-aged. She saya: "It is certain that I am not as , young as I was ten yeara ago, and, of ' "course, am not ho attractive; but I am not a middlo-aged woman, it is unfortunate, un-fortunate, it seems, that I went into public 1 1 to so young. I wab only just sixteen." Mrs. HayeB and her young friends are very bright and animated; so is the president, who, after getting rid of the politicians, joins the family group. The young children, Fanny and Scott, aro in and out aa they please. There is no alitfnesa or formality. for-mality. The cordiality ol the hosto s is infectious and every one talks. Mrs. HayeB offers to make introductions, introduc-tions, and provides a companion-talker companion-talker for every one. Two ladies got caught together by their fringe trimming at one of the "openings" the other day. 'T declare," de-clare," said one, "aome people are eo rude." "That is what I thought when you pushed so dreadfully," said the other. "Ono would think," said num-- num-- her one again, "that we were at a Philharmonic rehearsal. " "Or else," , reponded number two, ns she extri-: extri-: cated herself, "that we were among a lot of country people." Then they departed, one going up and tho other down. Said one: "Well, I never in 3 all my life I" Said the other: "Did you over see anything like that I" t N. Y. Mail. A Boston lady says. "I determined to get -a new cloak. While- I was considering how much money to take out of the bank for the purpose, I happened to think how wicked it was for me to go flaunting .-.round in a new cloak when thero were so many Door, starvinz creatures in the world. ; So I concluded one of John's old coats old, altered over, would do and 1 1 could ke-p my money in the bank. Mm. F. called on me one day; she said: 'What a stylish cloak yon have.' 'Yea,' said I, 'and it cost almost nothing; I felt it would he a sin to buy new clothes when poor folks need money bo much, and so I fixed over the old ones.' 'What a good soul you are for thinking of the poor,' sho said." |