The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1886-11-13
ABOUT WOMEN


The wife of Senator Cameron will pass the
winter in Washington
A young lady in eastern Maine cries by the
hour because sho is tall
Turkey isadvancing. -Four Constantinople
womer, are publishing verses.
A lady recently described ballet girl as
aan open muslin umbrella with two PINK
handles"
New York has q woman's debating CLUB.
Everything is to be discussed but woman SUI
frage and free love.
Lady Churchill is being roughly criticised
in England for having written letter aP-
proving hirtations after marriage.
Mrs. George b. Mcclellan will pass the
winter in Rome She is now visiting inc
Countess Torrigani at Florence, Italy.
A Washington correspondent says that
Miss Kate Field is going to build house al
the capital, which will be model oil TASTE,
elegance and artistic beauty.
Mrs. Cleveland is a great lover OF flowers.
Nearly all the plants have been transferred
from the flower beds of the executive man
sion grounds TO the conservatory, ana the
mistress Of the mansion usually gives an hour
or 80 daily TO this pleasant retreat.
Miss Endicott, daughter of the secretary OF
war, will figure prominently In Washington
society this winter She is Boston girl 70
the tips of her fingers, and is said to DO as
different from Miss Lamar as Massachusetts
is different from Mississippi.
When Mile de Lesseps went out the other
day in New York to buy some candy, the
proprietor of the confectionery she visited,
learning that she was one of the French visi-
tors. not only refused to be paid for it, but
offered her the freedom of the store.
A feature of Pacific coast life which inn
presses every stranger who spends much
time there is the great number OF large
women to be seen. A woman of immense
circumference is a rare sight in the east; but
there they are as numerous as the mountains
Miss Jennie Lamar, daughter of the secre-
tary Of the interior, is to come OUT in Wash
ington society this winter. She Is described
as a typical southern beauty" Her form IS
somewhat tall, 1.-the and willowy; her move
ments particularly graceful, and her manner
marked by the culture observable III blue
blooded" southern ladies.
At the Cash Girls home, New York, a
dressmaking class has been organized under
the patronage of two benevolent ladies. On
Thursday a score of the girls met at the
home, and under the tuition of an expert
enced modiste, who furnishes her services
free, they are rapidly learning how to cut,
fit and drape.
Though the empress cf Austria is no longer
allowed to take horse exercise, she is using
her returning strength TO make extensive
pedestrian excursions in the neighborhood OF
Ischl. She not only walks long distances,
but gets up at abnormal hours IN the morn
ing to start on her journeys. If monarchs Of
the period mean to go on in this way intend
ing courtiers will soon have to pass an exam
nation in athletics
An Eaton county, Ills, young lady is a
rustler. She teaches school, for which she
receives $40 per month, assists her mother in
the homework, takes care of three horses and
two cows has class in Sunday school, is a
correspondent of the weekly newspapers, and
is president of a sewing society. During the
summer when she wasn't crushed" she
painted her mothers house without and
within, and papered two rooms.