Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-07-20
THE FAIR SEX.

Miss Mary Garrett, Of Baltimore, manages
a $40, O0O, 600 estate
Miss Jessie Patton won the honors at the
University of Texas this year.
Miss Nellie Arthur, daughter Of the late
President Arthur, is at Lenox with Mrs. Ere
inghuysen.
A Mrs Moore has sued the city Of Macon,
Ga, for $50, 900 damages for the lynching OF
her husband
Belva A. 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 was a story written when she was IL
years old and published in The Youths Com
panion.
Ameiie B. Edwards is interested in q pro-
ject to transport to England some colossal
sculptures discovered in the ruins Of the
temple OF Bubastes.
The girls who do homework in Lewiston
and Auburn, Me-, propose to form union
and to hold county convention to consider
the wages question, to ask for better pay and
better treatment.
The Countess Of Munster is quite a 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 a preciseness She holds hand
kerchief to her face, never smiles and under
no circumstance expresses surprise.
An observer on Hyde Park, London, cor
uer reports that between IL and l in the af-
H., af khn rx,r 1C hot
have their faces painted, their eyebrows and
eyelashes darkened and their lips Redeemed
Queen Victoria is fcnd of straw hats She
recently had a photograph taken of herself as
she sat at breakfast surrounded by her family.
On her head was most remarkable straw
hat, the most striking object in the picture
So well 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 as 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 Willis, graduate of the
women's medical college of Philadelphia, was
the successful applicant. The vote stood: For
admission, 107; against, 80.
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-
ton.
The Grand Duchess Elizabeth, wife Of the
Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovitch Of Rus
STA, is a late addition to royal authors. She
writes of court life under the pen name Of
AIRY Ercilaw, and real people masquerade.
through her pages. She is only "a 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 n mantel lambrequin with a
fringe of Russian and Finnish coins Mrs
Hunt wrote a series of letters describing her
life in Russia, and these she proposes reading
next winter in the cause Of charity.