Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-07-18
THE FAIR SEX.

Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimore, manages a $20, ,oO0, 900 estate.
 Miss Jessie Patton won the honors at the University of Texas this year.
 Miss Nellie Arttyir, daughter of the late President Arthur, is at Lenox with Mrs. Ere linghuysen.
 A Mrs. Moore has sued the city of Macon, Ga, for $20, 900 damages for the lynching of her husband
 Belva 4. Lockwood is about to start out on her campaign tour, She is more confident of election than she was in 1884.
 Elizabeth Stuart Phelps first literary ven- ture a story written when she was IS years old and published in The Youths Com panion.
 Amelie B. Edwards is interested in pro- ject to transport to England some colossal sculptures discovered in the ruins of the temple of Bubastes.
 The girls who do housework in Lewiston and Auburn, Me, propose to form a union and to hold a county convention to consider the wages question, to ask for better pay and better treatment
 The Countess of Munster is quite literary woman. In a recent number of an English magazine she comments on English Ballad Singing" kind of music which she regards as very unsatisfactory.
 The ordinary Chinese girls demeanor when among those not of her own race is proper to precseness. She holds hand kerchief to her face, never smiles and under no circumstance expresses surprise.
 An observer on Hyde Park, London, cor ner reports that between 12 and 1 in the af ternoon nine-tenths of the girls that pass hox hair tod {hoir aual>Y.oyx-c nd eyelashes darkened and their lips reddened
 Queen Victoria is fond of straw hats She recently had photograph taken of herself as she sat at breakfast surrounded by her family. On her head was a most remarkable straw hat, the most striking object in the picture
 So we'll has the empress dowager admins tered the government of China during her regency of twenty-three years that the man. darins have invited her to occupy the throne with the emperor. In view of the position of women in China this is regarded a very high tribute.
 The Philadelphia medical society, after struggling hard against the admission of women members since 1859, has at last given way. Dr. Mary Willits, graduate of the women's medical college of Philadelphia, was the successful applicant. The vote stood For admission, 107; against, 39.
 Queen Christina of Spain has a temper of her own. One of her court ladies, occupying the important position of chief lady of the bed chamber, took offense at some trife and threatened to resign. With a promtness that surprised and chagrined the honorable chief lady the queen demanded the resigna- tion.
 The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, wife of the Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovitch of Rus sia, is a late addition to royal authors She writes of court life under the pen name of Ary Ercilaw, and real people masquerade through her pages, She is only 24 years of age, but she lived life time of sorrow in be- ing compelled to marry one man while she loved another Her face is said to express the sad story of her life.
 Mrs. William H. Hunt, widow of the late minister to Russia, has just built herself new house on G street in Washington. The house is small, but quite unique in its fur nishings containing many curious things that she brought from Russia with her, among them mantel lambrequin with a fringe of Russian and Finnish coins. Mrs. Hunt wrote series of letters describing her life in Russia, and these she proposes reading next winter in the cause of charity.