The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-03

she been wiling TO leave sEe br1U1sn court
and her intimate friend, Queen Victoria
Miss L. Ackroyd, of Newnham college,
England, has been nominated TO occupy
the university table at the laboratory OF
the Marine Biological association at Ply
mouth for one month during the year 1sso-
Miss Elizabeth Peabody, whose charities
and benevolence have made her so distin-
p1,ished throughout New England, Is now
81 wears old. She is in comparatively good
health, but is waiting quietly for the end
Nine. Lillian Nardica, the gifted musi-
clan, uses up piano and gallon OF scent
ed water every month. She is hard
worker. home lover and an anti-athlete.
never walking any further than the car
riage step.
By her will the late Mrs. Emily Pfeifer,
the well known English poet, bequeathes,
with the exception of few legscies, the
whole of her personal estate of e63,0OO TO
charitable and educational establishments
for women.
The latest description of Margaret De-
land, the Boston writer, represents her as
slender young woman plunging through
the snow drifts of Beacon street with a
market basket on her arm and her big dog
at her side.
Mrs. NJ Edith Howcott, of New Orleans,
probably owns more real estate than any
other southern woman. She has in her
own right over 30, 900 ceres of selected tim
Der lands in Louisiana and Mississippi,
and is still buying
Bertha Won HiIlern is still en- ardent pc
destrian, though most Of her time is now
devoted to work in her studio in the Vir-
ginia mountains She is a devout Catholic,
and frequently walks eleven miles TO
church and back again.
Frances Power Cobbe, the we'll known
English writer, was born in 1929; she
writes frequently for the reviews and mag
azines on social, ethical and religious sub
jects, and is also prominent leader of the
anti-vivisectien movement in England.
Portugal has female bull fighter. Her
name is Clotilde Mejgtrik. She has prac-
ticed for bull fighting only since last April
1, yet is wonderfully expert IN the arena.
At her debut in Operto she killed two
bulls, and week later in Lisbon she killed
two more
Mrs Dorothy Stanley's last act as an un-
dTGlSt Was LuG SAIe VI ilCE plCOoEO
of "Street Arabs at Play" to great soap
selling firm for pictorial advertisement.
She expressed her willingness that the
picture should be used fer that purpose if
it were not changed in any manner.
Miss Alta Proctor Otis. the editor of
Saturday Review, has her bread-and- but
ter day love for dolls. MFs Senator Platt
is another devotee of the doll, and in one
corner of her Fifth AvenRe hotel parlor
is small stand, where d group of talking
doll babies sit with staring eyes and part
ed lips.
The Duchess of Cleveland is a first rate
artist. She is the owner of house in
Grosvenor place, London, which contains
a great many beautiful paintings which
were the work of the proprietress. These
include most charming portrait of the
late Duchess of Westminster in the lovely
days of her early youth.
Helen Mathers, the author of CHERRY
Ripe and other successful novels, has
never written anonymously, or empoyed
her pen in journalistic work of any kind;
no inducement will make her take up her
pen when she is not in the mood; yet she
once wrote two three volume novels in six
months and made 80, 600 out of them.