MODES OF REVENGE PRACTISED BY WOMEN' OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2554, 25 April 1871, Page 2

MODES OF REVENGE PRACTISED BY WOMEN' OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

When a lady of sunny Spain has become jealms of her sweetheart, she produces a very sharp knife from the- garter where she usually keeps it, and stabs the faithless one on the spot. The outraged Italian beauty does not herself inflict the stab, but she incites her big brother, or hires a ruffian from the neighbouring street-corner, to way-lay the individual on his way home from .the caf6, and smite him under the fifth rib. The German girl, under similar circumstances, nearly cries her meek blue eyes out. The lively and impulsive Frenchwoman either scratches the perfidious one’s face, or shuts herself up in a garret with a paa of charcoal, and “asphyxiates’’ herself, or—yet further —she gives tie person of whom she is jealous the very amplest reason to be jealous of her. The Yankee girl is wont to satisfy the greeneyed monster in a summary manner. She either cowhides the offending party, |or produces a revolver and shoots him “at sight.” The practi' e of the lower classes of jEuglish females when they are jealous differs from eve*y one of the processes mentioned. Aloqe among their sisters in civilised nations they throw vitriol, and unhappily this seems to be growing in frequency every session. It should be, moreover, a source of bitter shame to us, who are so fond of deploring the use of “the k ife” among foreigners, that this atrocious cr me should be almost exclusively confined to the women of Great Britain. Lon • don Paper.