Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-07
GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN

Mrs. Mary j. Holmes is in Italy gather,
ing points for a new story.
Nine. Patti-Nicolina is dubbed "the
Queen" at Craig-Y-Nos Castle.
The military girl is an established insti.
tuition at the University of Minnesota.
Mrs. D. G.. Crowly is about to start 9
new paper called The Woman's Century.
The Woman's Penny Paper in London
has recently been enlarged to twelve pages
Women interviewers are said to be fa1
more successful than men on London news,
papers.
Miss Juliet Corson has become so much
of an invalid that she is not able to leave
her room.
There are eight ladies of title in Eng
land who carry on the business of dress
and matchmaking.
Nearly one-quarter of the white girls OF
Alabama, between the ages of Is and q,
cannot write their own names.
The long-handled double eyeglasses
now used so much by ladies seem to en-
power them with the privilege to stare.
\ young woman who has her own liv-
ing to make needs to disembarras herself
of all false pride, says writer in HaTper's
BazGr
Four of Archdeacon Farrar's daughters
have married clergymen, and three out of
the four have chosen Curates in their
fathers church.
The new Duchess of Portland ranks
eighteen in the list of peeresses, and the
American Duchess of Marlborough takes
precedence of her.
Miss Jane Golden, although still COM
paratively young, has snow-white hair.
She wears picturesque costumes and has an
attractive personality.
A gold bangle watch, with blue face sur
rounded with diamonds, was the gift of
the Duke of Portland to each of the nine
bridesmaids who took part at his wedding.
The Woman's Exchange of Kansas City
is to build a home for working women
The house is to cost $4,000. and $4,000
lot has already been bought to put it upon.
There are over 100000 women in this
country who are engaged in work which is
not domestic. Whatever are her "rights,"
woman's right to work is evidently I'M
limited.
At the literary ladies' dinner given in
London short time ago seven gentlemen
novelists offered to come as walters, as they
were debarred from appearing as guests,
but they were not admitted.
When some one asked Susan B. Anthony
if it did not tire her to shake hands she
remarked: eyes, it does but not half so
much as it did twenty years to stand all
alone with no hands to shake at all"
The second daughter of General Bou-
LANCER is to marry the son of the sister-in-
law of the ex-King of Naples. Her title
is long way off from royal, however, as
she will only be plain little Countess.
Residential chambers for ladies have
been built in London, consisting of two,
three and four rooms, which rent from 10
shillings to % shilling unfinished Only
those women who earn their own liveli-
hood are permitted to become occupants.
The new Duchess of Portland has OBJ
tanned from her husband promise to use
all the money he makes at the races in
building houses for the poor on their estate
at Weltbeck. How the paupers will multi
ply if the Duke is always as successful
with his horses as he has been this spring.
The wife of Count Tolstoi is a woman of
unusual powers. She superintends the
education of her children-thirteen in
number-she takes charge other husbands
business, and she acts as amanuensis, re-
wiser and translator. She is said to have
rewritten Life" his last work, sixteen
times