The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-15
READING FOR THE LADIES.
Some Interesting Notes Of the
Doings Of Women Mated
and Unrlated.

A Chicago fruit dealer says that
women generally pay for the best
and select the poorest fruits and vege-
tables.
Miss Kate Fields is about leaving
Denver to go into the mountains,
which she wants to see before cold
weather.
Louis Viardot, daughter of the
famous French opera singer, has
been appointed Professor OF Singing
at the frankfort Conservatory OF
Music.
Celia Thaxter, the p"etess of the
Isles OF Shoals, finds recreation IN
painting marines in water color,
which She does to the great admira-
ton OF her friends.
A collection of the books published
by the women authors OF Maine Is 10
be one Of the features of the woDen's
exhibit in a fair to be opened in Bos-
ton, Massachusetts,, the middle OF Ibis
month.
A young lady of San Francisco is
solving the problem of the higher
education by travelling about the
streets with y neat little kit, mendlng
jewelry and various other fancy
articles.
The Dakota Journal says: IA girl
in Dakota without q dollar to her
name stands as high in the communi-
ty As one blessed with a fortune. The
,.o A. v,,bo tho fOrtnn0
"Fortescuen is the nom de theatre
of the young lady whom Lord CTR
Moyle, Lord Cairns son, is going to
marry soon. She is the daughter OF
Mr.. Finney, a coal merchant in
London.
One of the ladies who petitioned
the New Hs mpshire legislature in
favor OF woman suffrage lives in Con-
cord, and pays a tax of over $1,000.
Women in Dover pay taxes on prop
erty worth over 100000
Sowing pansy seeds in the open
ground this month is a forethOught-
full provision for a bed of beautiful
flowers almost as soon as the snow
disappears next spri' 6, provided the
soil is sufficiently rich.
Miss Jennie MCGOWAN, M. D., of
Davenport, President of the Scott
County Medical rociety, and late as
sistant physician of the State Hos
pital for the Insane, at Mount Pleas
ant, has an article in the american
PSYCHOLOGICAL Journal en- "Psychlar-
ity in Iowa"
A London society writer says he
has seen Victoria tramping about on
the Shaw Windsor farm in the mud
and rain 10 inspect the cattle just he
fore q cattle sale, and showing as
much interest as an ordinary farmers
wife. and no more afraid of the
weather.
A little Cambridge, Massachusetts,,
girl las recently made a great sacrl
flee in order to hell. the poor people
to 90 on excursions. She has risen
rather earlier than usual for a few
mornings on the promise of two cents
per morning, and has contributed
thatsum to the fresh air fund.
Mime. de Martel, the neice Of the
great Mirabeau's granddaughter is a
lady moving in the NEST brilliant
Paris society, who is distinguished
by remarkable literary talent. Her
articles in La Vie p ,risienne are
very interesting as studies of Partisan
society.
There is ~ lady in London, the
daughter of a nobleman: who is con-
spicuous for her affection and devc'
ton to her husband. who has lost one
of his eyes. The story is a sad one
During their cour'ing days the gen.
tleman used to spend his Sundays al
her fathers villa, not far from Lon
don. One Sunday morning TIL lady
went to church without him, and on
her return saw him sitting at the
open drawing-room window, nod
ding over q newspaper. For a JOKE
che threw her prayer book, intending
to hit the newspaper and so waken
him, but she missed her aim and tue
sharp cornerof the book entered hi
eye, depriving him of the sight of ii