Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-03-03
Notes About Women.

Gilt is the special fancy In beads, algrettes,
embre ideries, passementeries, etc.
Yellow or pink roses without foliage are placed
around hat crowns.
Edith Kingdom, Goulds baby, is taken for
daily airing in $3.50 baby carriage.
The printed Bengalines introduced last year
promise to be the fashionable material for next
summers dresses.
Black watered silk princess dresses are popular
for elderly ladies' they may be worn either with
or without train.
Heliotrope is passe, and the desirable spring
shades are apple green, pale Nile green and the
grayish green or minionette Indian red and Siam
red are also popular.
Miss Sallie Kennedy is one Of the most success
full real estate agents in Washington, D. G. She
succeeded to her fathers business ON his death.
During one week recently. she is said to have
realized several thousand dollars in commissions.
Miss Frances Willard proposes that the house
in which the poet Whittier was born, at Haver-
hill, be purchased from the people who now own
it, who are not of his family, and be held as
point of interest for literary pilgrims to visit. Mr..
Whittier is pleased by the suggestion, and will
give 500 toward the purchase Harper's Bazaar.
The death of Miss Mary Parsons Hankey, Of
Staten Island is particularly sad, as she had just
entered upon what promised to be brilliant
career. Miss Hankey, who was just twenty-four
years of age, was the first woman to graduate
from Columbia College. She took her degree Of
Bachelor of Arts last summer. Her course OF
languages at Columbia included Latin, Greek,
Anglo-Saxon, French, German, Italian and Span
sh. She was good musician, clever draughts-
woman, and withal a practical housekeeper. At
the time of her death she was teaching in Mrs.
Syvanus Reeds school in New York, where Miss
Rose Cleveland is an instructor.
Mrs. G. D. Croly, better known as ''Jennie
June" is one of the few women who have had
through journalistic training. She began her
career by writing for the newspapers, and she
has worked in every department OF newspaper
office except the composing room. She is very
hard worker, but she has won the reward that
does not always follow hard work-good pay.
Mrs. Croly was one of the founders of Sorosis,
and was it's president from the first until within
two years, when she handed in her resignation,
much to the regret of the several hundred mem
bers of that society. She is now editor and pro-
prietor of the long-known Godey's Lady's Book.
i Harpers Bazor.
Mrs. Candace Wheeler through whose efforts
the New York Exchange for Womens Work was
founded some ten years ago, has a plan now for a
woman's hotel in New York She wishes to form
stock company, with capital of 100000, to
build fire-proof house so arranged as to give
each occupant a room with an open fire. One
hundred boarders at six dollars week would
make the hotel self supporting. Harper's Bazaar
says: 'There is one suggestisn of Mrs. Wheeler's
which proves that she understands the people for
whom the hotel if designed; that is, to have it
managed like club with a house committee OF
the inmates and the stockholders The great
trouble with the experiments that have been made
in this direction is that their rules and regulations
have been made by outsiders who do not apprecl-
ate the position of the class of women for whom
they are intended. Mrs. Wheeler's long assocla-
ton with art students and art workers has shown