The other day a groceryman at Vallejo, Cal., gave a large party, at which the daughter of the carriage painter who lived next door created a decided sensation. It was not that she was more handsomely attired than the other ladies present, but that when she gyrated in the "dance of death" she was observed to display the only pair of pink silk stockings in the room. She left the house for a few minutes at the expiration of the dance, and in the next waltz exhibited a pair of light blue dittoes. An hour later her crushed and exasperated female friends beheld' these supplemented by further hose of a delicate chocolate shade. And so it went on, until her miserable rivals determined to follow her the next time she disappeared. They traced her to her father's paint-shop in the backyard, where she was discovered brush in hand and about ornamenting her nether extremities with a final artistic coat of light salmon. The exulting spies rushed back with the damaging news, but it was too late. The men were all too tight to understand, the music had gone home and the lights were being put out. Thus it is that fraud and duplicity triumph, honest simplicity walks around with a darn on its calf and a hole in its heel.

Illustrated Police News, November 3, 1877.

Three pretty women of Cincinnati, Ohio, have a scrapping match in “The Abbey” with no serious results. 

“The Abbey,” on Spring Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, O., was the scene of a pretty little fight on night recently, between three well-known women named Gertie Roberts, a McFarland street landlady; May St. Clair and Bessie Anderson. The tree women were under the influence of liquor and it was not long before they began to fight among themselves. Bessie called May a hard name and in return was biffed in the eye and knocked down. At this point Gertie Roberts sailed in and went for May and received a good thumping for her trouble. After the women had been separated it was found that Bessie’s eyes were the color of shoe-blacking, and that Gertie’s nose had gone around to attend a tea party with her back hair, while the victorious May was all right. All are now said to be training for the ring.

Reprinted from National Police Gazette, September 28, 1889.