Wichita eagle., 1889-05-19
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

The empress Of Austria is improving under
| massage treatment
Mrs Mona Caird has organized scheme OF
neighbors' clubs In England.
| Miss Golden has been obliged to give up
her work on account Of III health.
Mrs. James G. Blaine has recently sold two
| of her Washington lots for $4,000.
Miss Morstock, an English painter, had five
pictures In the Royal Academy this year.
Mrs Celia E. Wentworth is said to be the
only lady pupil Cabanel ever received into
his studio.
The wife of First Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson Is said to be a very clever
politician.
There are 6,0oo girls preparing to enter the
New York Normal college, and only 500 can
be admitted
Miss Minnie Freeman, the blizzard heroine,
Is now taking full business course In col
lege at Lincoln, Neb.
Some Of the most prominent women Of
Boston have signed protest against the
docking Of horses tails
Signorita Gabrieln Salvini, daughter Of the
nlustrious tragedian, has distinguished herself
as clever amateur actress.
A Boston statistician states that seven
tenths Of the marriage engagements that are
broken are broken by women
A ton of rope made from the hair Of devout
women Of Japan has been used in building a
S., ,OOo, 600 temple to Buddha at Kioto.
Mrs. Spurgeon, wife Of the celebrated Lon
don preacher, sends books to poor country
clergymen and bonnets to their wives.
The Duchess of Cleveland has just published
the Battle Abbey Roll, a work which is
likely to prove of great historical value.
At Mrs Mackay's, Buckingham Gate,
London, an annual sale Of Irish cottage in
dustries was recently opened by the Duchess
of Abercorn.
Wright Burke, Of Troup county, Ga, has
been married fifteen years and has fourteen
children, twins five times, triplets once and
one solitary alone.
Mrs. Humphry Ward has gone to Italy for
a rest She has received pleasant letter
from Mr.. Gladstone criticising her article in
The Nineteenth Century.
The temperance women Of London have
for all the stations in that great city. The
city Is to pay their salaries
Chicago has home for self supporting
women where board is to be had for S225 q
week 1t Is for the accommodation Of women
who earn IS week and less
Mrs. Evelyn o. Tome has been elected prea-
dent of the Tome seminary for girls at Port
Deposit, Md, recently founded By gift of
81, ,0O0, COO from Jacob Tome.
Lady Randolph Churchill Is about to make
her debut in literature, It is said, with an ar
ticle in Longman's New Review on her ex-
periences in Russian society life.
Mrs Harriet Hosmer, at a reception given
her by the Chicago Woman's club, wore five
medals, four Of gold and one o. silver, which
had been awarded her in Italy.
Hannah Battersby. the fat woman, was ad-
vertised as weighing 800 pounds She was
weighed after her death the other day, and
the exact figures were 343 pounds.
Miss N. Troyer, teacher in the San Fran
cisco schools, succeeded In retaining her posi-
ton and keeping the fact Of her marriage
secret for five years, when it was revealed by
divorce suit.
Woman fogging exists as q punishment in
the Transvaal. All the South African press
is violently opposed to it, but only recently
woman was sentenced to receive fifteen lashes
for using obscene language.
A number Of Detroit ladies have organized
a society for the cultivation Of the art Of
conversation They very properly regard
the attainment as one of the highest and as
much to be sought after as piano playing or
painting
The death of Lady Arnold, wife of the
author of 1.-THE Light Of ASIA Is deeply re-
gretted in England, where she was widely
known. She was the daughter Of the Rev.
William Henry Charming and the grand
daughter Of William Ellery Claiming, the
great Boston Unitarian divine. Lady Arnold
was born in England.
The chef de cuisine Of q big Brooklyn hotel
had just read Mrs Wards novel, and In order
to be abreast Of the fashion named new
soup 'Potage la Robert Elsrnere." 1t
failed to take with the guests, one of whom
said to the proprietor: appropriate name
that. I hadn't sufficient faith in heaven to
devour the book or the soup"
While the queen regent of Spain was en-
tertaining. Queen Victoria at San Sebastian
by an odd coincidence the Duchess of Madrid
was extending a similar courtesy to Princess
Louise of Bavaria at Viareggio. The duchess
is wife Of Don Carlos, and in Legitimist eyes,
rightful queen of Spain, and the princes is
a direct descendant Of Charles l, and would
probably be queen Of England today were it
not for the act Of settlement.