ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 24, 8 July 1871, Page 16

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

A shrill old lady in Memphis, whenever she looses her sissors, rouses the family with, " Where's them shears appeared to ?'' Dr Blake, a well-known English physician, says it only requires two London seasons to rob a fashionable young girl of her freshness. The New London (Wis) "Times" reports that a girl in that place, thirteen years of age, committed to meraoiy 1100 verses of the Bible in a single week.

Letters from Milan, Italy, record great success for Miss Edith Abel!, of Boston. Her voice is pronounced by Italian authorities a pure soprano. The Princess Dora DTstria has just published in Florence, an outline of an Indian poem, " Piamayna," which is the "Iliad" of thatc ountry. The ladies connected with the Young Women's Christian Association, of Baltimore are about to establish a " Work-ing-women's Home" in that city. The Empress of Germany said the other day to an Austrian journalist, that she had never slept more than four hours a day since the breaking out of the war with France.

Mrs Mary Yates, a Western antiwomen lecturer, claims that prostitution and marriage looseness have greatly increased since the inauguration of the women's rights movement. A paper published in Paris, Ky., states that sixteen ladies in that town sat together in a private room, without restraint, and never spoke a word for two ' hours. We don't believe it!

A girl ten years old has been arrested in London, England, for stealing babies. She made a practice, after getting the children, of stripping and abandoning

them ; selling there clothes " to go to the theatre with." Mrs Stanton means to occupy the coming summer with some theologicoscientific studies on the origin of man, and other evils. The " Golden Age" will publish the results of this new effort in behalf of the " down-trodden." One result of the women's movement is :the fact that the sex are crowding into branches of industry and labor such as would have shocked the modesty of the girl of ten years ago. Two girls in a small town in Ohio run a blacksmith's shop all by themselves. They dress in Bloomer costume, and shoe a horse just as a man does.

Miss Rye and Miss M'Pherson seem to have devoted their lives to the amelioration of the condition of the poor of London. The former has brought over to Canada a great number of female servants; the latter turns her attention to boys and girls between the ages of five and fifteen. About 400 juveniles will sail under her charge from London about the middle of next month: two other companies follow shortly, and a fourth in August. The following programme for the observance of wedding anniversaries seems to be generally adopted throughout the country : First anniversary, iron; fifth anniversary, wooden ; tenth anniversary, tin; fifteenth anniversary, crystal; twentieth anniversary, china; twenty-fifth anniversary, linen ; fortieth anniversary, woollen ; forty-fifth anniversary, silk ; fiftieth anniversary, golden; seventyfifth anniversary, diamond. The " old girls" seem to be making a profitable business of suing for breach of promise in England. A recent number of the London " Times" reported three cases on one page, in which the average age of the ladies claiming compensation for the injuries to their affections was 43, and of the male defendants, 67. One of the three ladies was under 30 years of age, and obtained damages from an unwilling lover of 76. One "blighted being," of 56, got 2500 dollars from a villainous lover of 60.

Mr Beecher has always been in favor of the women of his Church taking part in the social meetings. As the result, says the " Independent," a lank female gospeler arose one evening, and recited a learned, but by no means edifying, homily, which she repeated at two successive meetings. The case was becoming both ludicrous and serious. Finally, at the close of the harangue on the third evening, Mr Beecher lifted up his head which had been buried in his hands, and said, quietly: "Nevertheless, brelhern, I am in favor of having women speak in the prayer-meetings." The Princess Frederick Charles, of Prussia, is selling tickets for her own paintings, which are to be disposed of in a lotteryfor the benefit of the Invalid Fund. The drawing will take place on the Ist of June.

An lowa girl, who read Cooper's novels until she became impressed with the idea that she could never be happy unless as the bride of a " red man of the forest," found one last week, married him, and went to the banks of the sylvan stream where he trapped for muskrats. She only stayed one night, and came home with a black eye, and had to send out for a bottle of hair restorative. It seems the noble savage got drunk, and punched her in the eye ; while his old squaw went among her hair. The girl don't want any more Indian, if she knows her own heart.