St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-04
PERTAINING TO WOMEN.

"Stub's Style" published in one of
the recent numbers of the Wellesley
girls paper, 1.-The Prelude" is the
cause of much comment in college
journals.
DR.. Magill, president of Swarthmore
college, is in Europe with his wife and
three daughters. The other two dangh-
tiers are at Philadelphia, one studying
music and the other painting.
An imperial ukase has been published
IN the German Military Journal order
ing that the regiment of dragons en-
titled the Queen of England's regiment
henceforth be called the Queen Of
Great Britain and Ireland's regiment.
1t is not known to the general public,
though well known to her friends, that
Mrs. Ward McAllister -devoteS the
greater part of her time to literature.
She is remarkably we'll read woman.
She is subscriber to hosts of magazines
and periodicals of all descriptions, and
is an encyclopaedia on great many sub
jects. She has very large and well
chosen library, to which she is con-
stantly adding. She is regarded as au-
thority on American genealogy.
The National training school of
cookery" established fifteen years ago
in London, Eng, has during that time
instructed 10000 pupils. During the
first six months of the present year the
number in attendance on its various
classes was 2,115. The school is self
supporting. 1t occupies commodious
building of its own, which is now more
than half paid for from the profits re-
allied on the many thousand dinners
ton exhibitions. The main object of
this Institution is to supply properly
trained plain cooks.
The Yellow Garter club has been Or
ganiZed in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The club
takes its name from the article which
all the members are required to wear.
The object of the club is to get the
members ready for the next leap year,
and the yellow garter was chosen be-
cause its color most nearly resembles
that of the orange blossom. The young
men of the town are in dreadful state,
as the club has given it out that at the
regular meeting the qualities, moral and
financial, of the masculine portion of
the community are discussed. If these
prove satisfactory, the fortunate indiv
idual is put on the list headed Fair
Came"
Two years ago eight ladies in Milford,
Me-, decided that the town needed a
new hall. They organized themselves
into sewing society and went to work.
At the end of the year, having given
several entertainments in addition to
the sewing, they had 1926. With this as
nest egg, they hired the rest and began
on building. As soon as the building
was boarded, though yet without doors
and windows, they set up cake and
ice cream counter one night last Au-
gust on carpenters bench, and added
TO their store. In September good
floor had been laid, and they held
two or three dances have been held
each month, each of which has Melted
at least $50. Now the hall is finished
on the outside, though the inside,
with the exception of the floors, it is
yet in a rough state. 1t has cost about
$1,000, and the present debt is about half
that sum. A furnace has been put in
at a cost of Sl85, and kitchen and din
ing room in the basement have been
furnished with stove, dishes, tables,
lamps, etc. The women are well
pleased with their success.
LII all her generous old age, the city
of Paris was the chosen home of the
benevolent Duchess of Galliera; and as
she had done so much for her native
city, she Determined to leave a name
to be equally revered in the French
capital. Almost Der last appearance in
putlIc was when she went to open an
immense orphanage at MeudOn, near
Paris. and home for poor priests, de-
stined to afford shelter to no less than
$50 venerable and aged clergymen.
who. but for her generosity under the
anti-Christian government, which at
present is supreme in France, might
have persisted of want. Every year the
duchess gave sum of 10000 francs to the