The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-06-08
DAUGHTERS o. eve.
Women Who Are More or Less Famou'
In the WORLDS Newspaper

The ex-Emprces Eugene WILL again b.
the queens guest at Osborne this sum
mer.
One Of the newly elected pages Of the
Iowa house Of representatives Is 10
year-old girl.
Miss Mollie Garfield IL said to be an
exceptionally well informed girl. and
takes an especial interest in scientific
matters.
The belle Of Baton Rouge. La, a lady
of graceful and attractive manners, owns
and personally conducts a job printing
office.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. Pro
fessor Maria Mitchell and Mr.. T. B. AL
drich will be among the summer resi-
dents of Lynn, Mass
The "Madge'' OF Girls Gossip" in
Mr.. Labouchere's Truth" is Mrs G j
Humphrey middle aged Irish woman
who also writes much for various other
papers.
Mrs Ruth McEnery Stuart, the latest
writer of negro dialect stories, lives in
New Orleans. She is young woman.
tall, dark haired and fine looking She
has only recently taken up literary work
Joseph Davis. of Wayne county, W
Va. has a daughter aged years who
weighs $50 pounds. This is believed to
be the largest child of its age in the
world.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was
recently presented to Queen Victoria. re,
ceived several lessons from professional
teacher of department in regard to back
ing from 1.-THE presence" and bowling to
majesty.
Mrs. D'Oyly Carte was formerly for
many years Mr. Cartes private secretary,
and he attributes to her clever business
management much of the financial sue
cess with which he has produced the
comic operas Of Messrs Gilbert and Sui
Ivan.
Gertrude Cunningham, of Bangor,
caught her hand in the mangler at the
Bangor laundry, and the hand and wrist
were stripped of skin and flesh. The
hand has been saved by skin grating,
three young women friends of the girl
having allowed 1903 pieces of skin to be
taken from their persons for her benefit.
Among the well known literary wo-
men of New York is Margaret Sangster,
the poet, who also reads for the Harpers
and helps in the conduct of Harpers
Young Folks. She is an extremely
pretty woman, above medium height,
gentle hammered, smooth browed, un.
ruff1ed and pleasant to look upon.
Mrs. Lizzie w. Champney. of New
York, the author of ''Three Vassar
Girls and the wife of Champney, the
artist, is as pleasant to the eye as her
books are bright. She is brown haired
slender and rather delicate looking with
a grave face She has a wonderful
talent as teller of dialect stories.
Some one made a remark to Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe the other day about the
literary talents Of her daughters. YES"
she replied. Col Higginson said to me
once, Imagine the confusion of proof
sheets in a family where there are four
or five writersl' But as we do not all
live together the proof sheets have
luckily never yet been mixed
Miss Minnie Freeman. the brave young
Nebraska school teacher whom the
blizzard made famous has decided to
make California her home for the future.
She has received ST. 700 in cash from the
subscription raised for her benefit, be-
sides two costly gold watches, three
diamond pins and many pieces of
jewelry.
Rosa Bonheur does not always wear
male attire, as the popular idea has it,
She is seen on the streets of Paris dressed
quite as the average we'll do matron of
France is accustomed to dress distin-
guished only by the red ribbon of the
Legion Of Honor pinned at her breast.
When she is at work, however. she does
wear trousers and broad orimmed hat,
Miss Grace Frances Blgelow. western
girl, who can whistle with remarkable
skill and sweetness. is winning fame and
fortune through her peculiar talent. She
is described as very pretty girl about
% years OF age, blonde, with pro-
fusion of golden hair and bire eyes
She discovered her talent Tor whistling
some years ago while living with her
parents in Colorado
Margaret Andrews Oldham. the new
southern poet, is an attractive little
woman, whose years are not much be-
yond score and quarter. She has
pretty, intelligent face. with shapely
nose. large blue eyes. expressive mouth,
and a shell pin1 complexion. She in
herits her literary inclination from her
father, who was college PRESIDENT
while her mother is at the head Of an
educational institution. Her husband is
journalist and writer. and her brother
is lawyer-editor.
Laura c. Hollc~ay. who has been Wis
iting in Hartford, describes a call made
upon Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe as
something delightful to remember Mrs
Stowe had been out walking and met hel
guest at the door her cheeks flushed from
exercise and her beautiful eyes sparkling
with expression. II could but note with
surprise the animation of the whole
says Mrs. Holloway She
looked so young aud handsome that it
seemed hard to believe the record OF her
years. In appearance she was fifty in
stead of seventy six, and quite as active
and pleasing in manners as she ever was
If eypression ia beauty. Mrs Stowe NAV