The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-09-06
THE GENTLER SEX.
What the Newspapers Say Concerning the
Daughters OF Eve.

What the Newspapers Say Concerning tho
Daughters OF Eve.
A Saratoga woman comes out in all
red one day, all white the next, all black
the third and so on.
The Kings Daughters of Atlanta,
Ga, have just opened hospital there to
be under their exclusive charge.
A negro woman who recently went in
sane at Atlanta, Ga, imagined that the
sun had perched itself on her head and
she could not shake it off.
Miss NJ. E. Orr is said to be the fastest
woman type writing operator in the
world. In recent type writing tourna-
ment her average was ninety-five and
one-fifth words minute.
More than fifty of the best known
ladies of Battle Creek, Mich, have
formed dress reform club and declared
themselves against bustles, high heels,
tight shoes, stiff corsets, etc.
Mrs. Bates, the "giantess' wife of the
celebrated Capt. Bates, died recently at
their Ohio home, near Wadsworth. They
were the largest married couple in the
world. Capt. Bates is eight feet tall,
and his wife was seven feet and nine
inches.
Amelie Rives Chanler reads bat few
books. Shakespeare, George Eliot and
Edgar A. Poo are among her favorite
authors. She reads French readily, and
has begun to take an interest in German.
She expects to study English when she
has leisure.
Mrs. Capt. Tom is the name Of the
richest Indian woman In Alaska.
She is worth about $20, and
lives royalty at Sitka, surrounded by
slaves. She supported two husbands
until lately, having to give one up when
she joined the Presbyterian Mission.
Mrs. Tom is ugly, fat and over 40, and
is a shrewd trader.
The young English poet known to the
world as A. Mary F. Robinson Is now
Nine. Darmesteter, having married
the enthusiastic gentleman who trans
lated her English poetry into French
prose not long since, thereby gaininA, for
her some very pleasant praise from
French critics.
Mrs. Harvey, of Shanklin, Isle of
Wight, has founded an institution there
which is doubly philanthropic in its
work. 1t is home for old ladies and a
training school for servants at the same
time. Servants who graduate there
command the best wages, and are always
in demand. Mrs. Harvey has an income
Of $150,000 a year, and she seems to
know just what to do with it.
Queen Victoria has won quite repu-
%ofi
what may be called a royal farmer of the
gentler sex. At the show of the Isle of
Wight Agricultural society recently she
took three prizes for farm horses, one
for Jersey cattle and four for Down
sheep, winning the champion prize for
the best ram and the award for the best
pair of ewes.
Last March N. Kate Gentry filed at
Washington an application for patent
on remedial cosmetic" She failed to
obtain her patent because she parted her
name in the middle The examiners
heldsthat the signature was defective, as
she had failed to write her Christian
name in full. On appeal the commits
sioner sustained the opinion. The law
recognizes but one name-the first one
and unless that is given in full the sigma
uure becomes worthless from a legal
standpoint.
Nine. Dieulafoy, who practically
founded the Persian museum In Paris,
has formally handed it over to the presi-
dent of the republic. She has definitely
adopted mans dress, and accordingly she
appeared with short hair, and "dressed
in masculine suit Of black trousers and
paletot, the latter buttoned up over the
waistcoat, and showing shirt front and
collar" She was also furnished with the
inevitable chimney pot hat, which, all
the time she was giving explanations to
Mime. Carnot, the wife of the president,
she held in her hand with proper mascu-
line politeness.
The person who exercises by far the
| greatest influence over the queen Of
Servia at the present time is undoubtedly
her aunt, the Princess Constantin Mou-
rousy She has been a veritable mother
to her niece, and has advised and con-
soled her throughout the long course of
her conjugal misfortunes. The princess
is an elderly lady, in appearance about
Go, short in figure, but none the less Dig
nified. with kind, motherly face. lit up
by pair Of keen eyes, and shaded by
gray hair. She has been widow for
many years, and invariably dresses in
simple black, with close black cap and
long veil. Although her home is in Rus.
sia great part of every year Is spent
with Queen Natalie, and there is proba-
bly, no one more thoroughly au fait with
all that goes on in the court Of Belgrade
than la pripcesses