Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-02-15
FEMININE NOTABLES.

BosToN society has two fine violinists in
the Misses Botsford and Carpenter of that
city
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE prefers Hart
ford Conn, to any spot in the world as "a
residence place.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON was presented
with a magnificent fan studded with rubies
and diamonds by an Eastern potentate.
The best-dressed woman In America is
said to be Mrs. Coleman Drayton. She
spends annually for her clothes about forty
thousand dollars.
REPORT says that Mrs Jefferson Davis re-
marked recently, that she never believed in
the success of the Confederacy in the war,
but always predicted defeat for her hus-
band.
LADY physician of New York. DIR. Mary
Putnum Jacob has the largest profession
al income in that city, receiving over forty
thousand dollars annually. She lives and
conducts her business under the same roof
with her husband, who is also physician.
THE ''woman in politics." is apparent in
the persons of pair of Wayne County, n.
Y, ladies named Miss Nellie L. Cook and
Miss Ella Clark, candidates for the Office of
school commissioner, the former on the
Democratic ticket and the latter on the
Prohibition ticket. They are regularly
stumping the county.
A LADY named Hildegard Oelrichs who is
engaged to a leading steamship owner of
this country, has won reputation in fash
ionable circles for her pluck in the hunting
field. When visiting at the Bradley
| Martins shooting-box in Scotland she
brought down a stag with her rifle, and
last year she excited the enthusiasm of the
West by shooting grizzly bear in the
Rocky Mountains.
Mrs. CLEVELAND patronizes a Washing
ton tailor when she orders new costumes.
She does not like the fuss and bother of
the old fashioned dressmaker, and while
in Europe adopted the custom of going to
tailor to have her dresses made. The fact
that she has clung to this habit has had an
| effect on Washington sign-boards. Where
once the word "Dressmaker'' appeared is
now painted the legend Ladies' Tailor"
MARY ANDERSON wears a cloak in "a
Winters Tale" which it took TWENTY-FIVE
women three weeks to embroider The
| embroidery was done from designs by
Alma Tadema. Miss Anderson's necklace
is copied from one supposed to have been
worn by Helen of Troy, which is now in the
South kensington Musem. Miss Anderson.
in London, occupies house on Hampstead
Hill from which she can look down upon
the smoky city and congratulate herself
that she is breathing purer air than the
millions of human beings below her.
| Miss PRocToR, widow of Barry Cornwall.
is the most interesting old lady in London
society. She is eighty-seven years of age,
but "goes everywhere as the phrase is,
and is eminently popular for her wit, good
spirits, and conversational powers. Her
father was the famous Basil Montague.
Mrs Proctor lives in handsom fiat in the
| Albert Mansions Charles Dickens used to
say that. when he wanted Ito brighten up"
he went to see Mrs Proctor. She has
known intimately the famous men of Eng
land for some generations past, and her
memory is stocked with interesting facts.
NATIVE fishermen IN Scindi, India. have a
peculiar method of taking fish They lay
! face downward on a large earthen vessel
| and using their hands and feet as paddles
/ launch forth to the desired spot. where
they secure their prey with a net and trans
| fer 1t to their singular vessels.
ANoSe the homes Of the Italian peasantry
the mode of procedure in the culinary -
partment is said to be primitive in the ex-
treme The old-style jack-spit is common
| " used and ovens of brick are the only
means for baking, while the little foTnells
with its charcoal fire serves all purposes.
TIE competition Of Germany Is SAID 70 DC
seriously affecting the export trade of En-
gland, particularly in the line OF cotton
goods.