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For And About Women

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
February
Year
1883
Copyright
Public Domain
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Wrinkles tlisfiguro a TYomnn leas Uian ill-nature. Quoen Victoria" favorito dish is said to be roast mutton. Woman is an idol that man worships untü he throws itdown. A Georgia man is named Potiph,and no woman will marry him. Women love ahvays; when earth slips from them they take refuge in heaven. ïhere is no torture that a woman woiua not suner to ennance ner ueauuy. Pointed corsaees of plain velvet are worn with olaborately trimmed skirts in faille or satin. Before promising a woman to loro only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her. Round and oval shaped brooches are imported, nowthatevery lady issupplied with long, slender lace pin. Miss Anna Dickinson denies the report that she has permanently retired from the stage and the rostrum. We censure the inconstancy of wornen when we are the victima; we tind it charming when we are the objects. Woman among savages is a beast of burilen; in Asia she is a piece of furniture; in Europe she is a spoiled child. We meet in society many beautiful and attractive women whom we think would make excellent wives - for our friends. It is not easy to be a widow; one must reassume all the modesty of girlhood, without being allowed to reign lts ignorance. Men are so fearful of wounding woman's vanity that they rarely remember that she may by some possibility possess a grain of common sense. The highest mark of esteem a woman can give a man is to ask his friendship; and the most signaLproof of her indifferenoe is to offer bim hers. At tweniy.man is loss a lover of woman than of women; he is more in loye with tlio sex than with tbc individual, liowevcr charming she may be. If the fire of love should consume a niaiden's heart, we presume the averttge insurance agent would account for it on the ground of a "defectivo flue." The leg of mutton slceves have not proved successful, but the close coatsleeves are bow slightly eushioned at the top to lift them above the armBole. An actress was offered a sealskin ! eloak if she wouldn't speakfor an hour. At the end of seven minutes she exclaimed:- "Mind, it's got to be a $250 one." The enterprising individual who is oran zing a'brass band of twenty wonien says that if they learn half as many "aii's as they put on, the experiment cannot fail to be a success. Ladies sliould beware how they indulge in horse racing. A young lady barely escaped with lier life while on the Brighton road last week, the trouble being that she couldn't hok) her roan. Women of the world never use harsh expressions when condemning their rivals. Like the savage, they hurl elegant arrows, ornamented with feathers yjL fIUlJJV .lint ilAUll'i 1V11U WUiaUllUV-l gomta. Long, straight redingotes aro stylisli for slender figures;stout ladies require draped overskirts, and thus drapery must bc made with reference to eacli wearer, thouh low draperies are gencrally becoming. Cashmcre jerseys are worn with cashmere skirts. They are buttoned down the front with gilt and silver buttons. Speaking of the high square shoulders that are now so fashionable, it is of course not natural to women to have them, and therefore the art of the dressmaker is called in, and lo! pads - shoulder pads make thcir appearance, and the happy result is attained. Louise Montague, the $10,000 beauty of Forepaugh's circus, is now 'tending bar in a saloon of her own in Philadelpliia. The fact may not redound greatly to her credit; but it is possible that her present calling is quite as respectable as riding on an elephat throughoul the country and stepjiing "right this way. Miss "Montague," at the beek of ringmaster and clown.

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Ann Arbor Democrat