Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-07-03
FOR WOMEN ONLY.

New York girls are cultivatlng fancy
for driving donkeys.
Mrs. VIM. 81. Vanderbilt will spenG
the summer at Bar Harbor.
Every bachelor who purchases $50
suit of clothes at store in Central City
Neb., gets wife.
Bonnet pins are growing larger and
more costly. Precious stones are now
used to embellish them.
The heir apparent to the throne Of
Spain is said to be very small and puny
child with fair complexion and blue eyes
A Boston girl has eaten SO many can
died violets this season that her admirers
now say she is sweet enough to be picked.
Mrs. Helyer, the beauty of the British
legation, will return from Europe next
month and spend the summer at New
port.
Sarah Bernhardt embellishes her new
play with Incidents from her own life
which are said to add much to the inter
est.
There seems to be some danger of the
lady at the white house becoming vain,
unless she carries a level head on her
young shoulders.
Chauncey M. Depew is authority for
the story that woman on Long Island
said that she had eaten SO many clans
that her waist rose and fell with the tide.
Mrs. Langtry is to use the profits of
her American trip in building London
theatre. If she had built in New York we
would soon have recovered the whole
amount.
Miss Della Apologize and Miss Eva
Franz are two Mississippi journalists
who recently had the temerity to assert
their prerogatives by attending the press
convention.
To get something no other woman can
buy, and to do something nobody else
can do without breaking a neck or a
husbands bank account, is the very lat
est fashion in ambitions.
A paragraph has been going around
about Florida girl who is going to
have pair of slippers made from the
skin of big snake that she killed and a
Boston man says now that she ought to
wear rattles on her heels.
Binks went to see the prize beauty at
the worlds museum the other day, and
after long drawn gaze remarked to a
bystander that it was the largest, the
most symmetrical vaccination mark he'd
ever beheld on any girls arm.
There are 1000 women employed in
the departments at Washington. They
come, as a rule, from good families.
Many of them are the widows of noted
generals, the daughters of ex-governors,
and now and then you
will find the relative of president or
cabinet minister. Many of them have
travelled widely, and the great majority
are educated and refined ladies. They
do all kinds of work and receive salaries
ranging from $7l0 to 81, 1900.
The wedding present of the Parisians
to the Princess Amelie on the occasion of
her recent marriage to the duke of Bra
ganza consisted of a jewel in the form of
a vessel, emblematic of the Vile de Paris
with the motto "Fluctuat non mergitur."
The vessel is in silver, embossed, borne
by two sirens emerging from large sill
yer basin ornamented with red jasper.
The names of the royal pair engraved on
a shield, and the date of the marriage is
inscribed on the pedestal.
A certain young lady living in Wash
ington earns a fine salary by teaching
American small talk to those young at
taches who are great beaux in society.
Her plan is simple enough. Her pupil
calls, is received and conversee with bis
hostess teacher for two hours. The talk
is confined to drawing room topics. This
wicked young teacher taught six young
fellows precisely the same round of pref
ty and witty phrases, and at certain
grand ball they were lowering around
Miss Daisy Ricketts,, one of the young
est and most popular of the Washington
girls, and each and every one was saying
the same things to her
The fashionable women of New York
have taken up the fencing craze It
started near the end of the season, and
foils are being carried away by the dozen
by departing bellies for the purpose of
summer practice. The ladies' days of
New York fencing clubs are supposed to
be largely responsible for the rise Of this
fad. Physicians generally approve of
fencing for women highly, and think it
is form of exercise peculiarly well fit-
ted for their development, being free
from the disadvantages that accompany
all running and jumping exercise, and
making less demand for violent muscu-
lar exertion than rowing.
The three unmarried daughters of the
late John G. Hamilton live in a hand
some brownstone house on Twentieth
street Just west Of Fifth avenue, New
York. 1t is a heavy, solid looking
house, bearing an unmistakable air of
responsibility. The late head of the
family was the only child of Alexander
Hamilton, and was himself survived by
five daughters and two sons. One
dan ohter married Judpe Charles A Pea