ABOUT WOMEN,

Dunstan Times, Issue 728, 31 March 1876, Page 3

ABOUT WOMEN,

Kissing among ladies is going out of fashion in America. Refined American women, an American journal tells us, have given up a custom which has been so much ridiculed. The reign of false hair is over, and it is said that Parisians are already arranging their own locks either in plaited or twisted coils round the head, or in artistic curls at the back of the neck. Twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixteen Mormon women have lately united in a petition to the Congress of the United States asking for a repeal of the law that denies to them the privilege of concubinage. No more melancholy commentary upon the degradation of woman in a stale of civilisation could be m ide.

The French papers report that a young lady, daughter of M Benoist, principal of che school of Fontenay-Ie-Comte (Vendee), has - just passed a brilliant examination for the degree of Bachelor of Letters, at the University of Poitiers. Among twenty-two candidates, she obtain*? I the first, place for French dissertation and for Latin composition, and the second for Latin version. She was warmly congratulated hy the dean. An elder sister is said to have already obtained similar honors. The title of “ bachelor,” as applied to a lady, is somewhat inconginons, and as “spinster” would hardly do, it will become necessary, if many more ladies go up for degrees, to invent, a new set-, of academical affixes instead of B. A , M.A.. Ac. The curious effects of a stroke of fight,ning are related by the Chicago ‘ Sunday Press,’ Four people sitting in a room were rendered insensible by a lightning flash, which cut in half a locust tree out side. On their recovery one of them, a young child, was found to hear on its body the imprint of a whole tree, limb, and branch, and leaf, and even the severed portion being distinctly- reproduced These marks were not. p •rmanent, but grew fainter dav by d>v. and in a month’s time hj cl e tiie'y disappeared We have heard of a similar case in Servia, where a whole land<caoe was thus imuriated on a min’s holy. The ladies are tin 1 , we hone, losing si ah' of the fact that this is lean year, nor neg'ectin; to a ail themselves of their ancient privileges. A form of celebration has been inaugurated in S 'me parts of the States, which is calculated to become even moie popular with the bachelors than the famous spelling-bee. Its celebration is thus described in an American exchange : “ On Friday night of January 28, the town of Merce 1 was enlivened hy a leap-vear calico and necktie party. The aff fir was a grand success. The novel tv of tin- thing was rhe ladies inviting the gents and paving all expenses, ovsters included—the ladies escorting th fir partners to * nvsters and wines for two, my hovf.’ ' nother novel and interesting feature of the evening was five young and pretty misses acting as pages, furnishing the gents with lemonade, e*-c., without any‘stick ’in it. Very few of the ladies broke file rule by coming to the party in other than calico dresses. Some of the dresses were very tasteful and pretty.