The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-02
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN.


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The Empress, FrederiCk's income is
about SS50,0OO a year.
A woman's supplied church choir is
the latest novelty in England.
The first woman pharmacist has made
her appearance in Norway.
Mrs. Mackay is fond Of gray walking
dresses, and always wears a mantle.
Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Is a
strongadvoCate Of daily exercise for girls.
Nine, Etelka Gerster is deVoting her
self TO the musical education OF her lit
tie girl,
Nine, Melba, the Australian prina
donna, began to singin public when che
was only u,
Mrs, George ". Childs Is considered
one Of the best dressed women In Phlla'
delphia,
The typewriting business nets from
$500 10 5000 to many a young woman
in New York City,
Miss O. W. Bruce has given $4,000 to
the Astronomical Observatory OF Har-
Varu college,
Miss Ala NJ, Lpngtellow, daughter OF
the poet, is much interested In amateur
photography,
Mrs, Amelia MYes.O hanier has q new
work on hand about the employment OF
children in factories,
English ladies fond OF horseback riding
often arrive ut Hyde Park at II o'clock
and do not leave until 1850,
The Queen Is said not TO like ladies'
who attend her drawing rooms to wear
gloves that reach above the elbow.
A ladies' boat race has Just taken
place at Tuxedo. The CIait were sail
boats and the ladies were their own
skippers,
The colored women OF the South are
earning for themselves creditable posi-
tons US teachers among their own race.
Miss Harriet Hosmer has lust compile.
ted the models Of two large doors In
bronze like some In the baptistary oIthe
Duomo at Florence,
The Woman'g Century, edited by Mrs,
d. G, 0roly, will be published bl.weekly
and will be Issued by or before the mid
die of September.
The Empress OF Russia carries q large
fan when she takes a walk, In order 10 be
able to screen her face from public view
when she likes.
A leader OF fashion in Paris, the
Vicomtesse Chandon do Brailles, gave a
dinner party the other day, not In her
own house but in q room on the EIfel
Tower.
French women arc anxious to call an.
other international congress OF women
to Paris during the exposition, which
will be similar to the one held in Wash
ington last year.
The trophy which Mary Anderson Is
said to most value in her collection is q
dagger given her by Lady Martin Helen
FGucit), which the latter always used
when she played Juliet,
Mrs. John Sherwood said in ono Of
her London letters: "Let Us initiate the
English In their virtues, their wise
economy, their quiet manners, their
pretty voices and their refined home
A special messenger Is sent from Lon
don 10 the Queen each day Of her stay
at Balmoral. She goes over the docu.
ments lie brings every morning and
then returns them by him in the even
ing.
Rev. Phoebe H%anaiord, who Ia nearly
GO years Of age, is said to have the elias.
tic step OF n girl Of 90. An elastic
step" for a woman who has reverend"
before her name has a very wicked
sound.
Miss Florence Nightingale has written
the following to the Band OF Hope III
Edinburgh: fDo not think you eau do
everything worth doing in a fit oil on
thusiasm, but train yourselves care.
fully to any work you are called on
10 do.p
Advice has been given tothe sultan Of
Turkey that he can only live in safety
II he puts down his harem, not as a Dues
ton Of morals but Of policy, It being i'm
possible to exercise supervision over an
establishment Of 500 laliep.
Miss May Ayres, Of California, q girl
OF IA, won the prize offered to the pub.
lie school pupil who should pass the best
examination. The prize was a free trip
o'tle Paris Exposition, and wa given
by the San Francisco Egdminer.
Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett and
her daughter have made u joint present
OF E4OO 10 the National Association for
Supplying Female Medical Aid To the
Women Of India. The money is to be
spent in founding scholarships for
students.
A countess whose affairs have recently
boen brought into court in Paris Is re.
corded rs having spent during a year
G5,00O francs on dreGaes, 4l,000 on
jewelry, 1900 on millinery, 5000 on
photographic, 1000 on boots, 200 on
scent and 100 on books.
The Czarlna OF Russia presented
Princess Alexandra Of Greece who has
Just married the Grand Duke Paul, with
three dressing gowns. One Is OF white
silver fox fur, trimmed with a wide Dor.
der Of real gold thread; another is Of
sable, fastened with pearls, and still
another 10 Of "blue fox" and has q belt
made entirely OF diamondr,
T,rg tom ali Dim Jiunoaou from