The National tribune., 1884-10-16
FOR THE LADIES.

A thimble owned by the Queen Consort of Siam
Is shaped like lotus bud. this being the royal
flower of that country, and almost everything
about the court bearing in greater or less degree
some impress of the lotus This thimble of gold
is thickiy studded with diamonds so arranged
as to form the lady's name and the date of her
riage 1t was bridal gift from the King who,
having seen the English and American ladies at
his court using thnbes took this method of intro
ducing them among his own people
Andrew Carnegie has much amused the British
Journals by the certificate of character he gives the
Queen in his Round the World: Victoria,
probably the most respectable woman vino ever
occupied a throne such a character one would
not hesitate to introduce to ones family crce.'-
ST. Louis Post Dispatch.
A Boston lady who has returned from abroad
will set all female Americans mad if she is allowed
to run loose among them with her tales of the craze
there is abroad for our home production of girls.
They rave over Them" she saws
- Miss Hu King Eng, young Chinese girl, has
been admitted into the Ohio WESLEYAN University
at Delaware. She is the daughter of the Rev. Hugh
Hong Mi, the reserve delegate from the Foo Chow
Conference and a presiding elder of the Hochiang
district 1t is her intention to study medicine and
to aftcrward return to her native land
A leading woman of fashion is represented as
saying that she has taken a census of one Summer
resort and can count 60 girls who will never marry
The assigned is that they are brought UP to
spend money, and must marry it remain single
But the of their own set will not marry except
for some great advantage and they know to a dot
that the 90 girls will not only be poor themselves
but will have poor sisters.
- switzerland is the only country In Continental
Europe where peasant women not obliged to
do all the hard work
- Women are to be admitted to lectures in Uni
versity College, in Toronto and the concession re-
garded a great victory for the friends in Canada
of the higher education of women.
- new invention for the purpose of entrapping
ladies inclined to embonpOint consists of q chair
used in a Newport lawn, which registers the weight
of any sitting In it without the sitters knowi-
edge.
- The latest thing in stockings does away with
garters supporters from above. The hosiery is
kept in its place by iacing from under the knee to
the upper bulge of the calf Thus the circulation
of the blood in the limbs is not impaired.
There are in Chicago not less than from 40 COO
to 80 900 women, girls, and children who perform
various grades of labor which were formerly in
mans province.
"A cricket match between ladies and gentle
men took place near Salisbury, in England, few
days ago. The ladies played with unusual pluck
Zon; but, although the conditions of the match
obliged the gentlemen to bat with broomsticks
and to field and bowl with the left hand the latter
were victorious by 16 runs. A match between
two teams of ladies is announced to come off
shortly.
A romance In real life lately occurred in West
minister, Md, which might be made foundation
for play. pretty girl of tribe of gypsies at
tracted much attention and was finally invited to
a dancing party at a citizens house She was q
sumner. it is said and set the young Marylanders
wild The next day young of Westminster
disappeared and the gypsies came to town looking
for their pretty girl and chief attraction the
road The general opinion was that the two had
gone together. The gypsies have gone hunting for
the pair.