Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-24
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cottage erected at Bath Bach for the
poor chillren's sanitariun. Las sum-
mer she d AT like expense the pa
vilion overl 'ek ng tie by.
A Roumanian princess has given to
benevolent institutions the whole income
of the fortune left ly her husband, and
has become va ter an n chil lren's hos
pi,al at Jassy. hicn she helps to sup
port
A new and lucrative business for
women has been opened by the amateur
photography craze. Printing photo
graphs is an occupation for which
women are specially adapted, and their
work in this branc is said to be superior
10 that done by men.
A niece of j. Fenimore Cooper is a
member of the Bellevue Training School
for Nurses. She is tall graceful bru-
nette. who has b, en- studying in tho
/ surgical ward, and is said TO show a re-
finement and sweet presence that is
more potent than medicines i'll treating
the sick.
Mrs. Ida Hall Roby, who is said to be
the only woman pharmacist in Illinois.
is only "a. but is the proprietor and
manager of tidy little drug store She
is graduate of the Illinois College Of
Pharmacy, and will soon admit to part.
nership her assistant. Miss Jessie Carter.
Miss Lille b Mahan is the faithful and
efficient county ysuperintendento of schools
in Lee county, Kentucky. She takes
| great interest in the duties of her office,
and there is hardly day when she may
not be seen on her horse en- route to visit
some school in distant part Of the
county.
The discoverer of the rs eleton in
Armor, which Longfellow immortalized
in verse, was Mrs. Hannah Cook, of
Fall River, who has just died at the age
of 81 years She found the curious relic,
a human skeleton bearing about it SEM
blances of rude brass armor, while Dig
ging in sand bank near Fall River in
1882.
Miss Emma s. Trapper, acting, it is
said, under the consent and authority of
the board of health, has been Investigate
ing the squalid condition which too often
environ the women servants employed
IN New York hotels, and has printed her
careful and judicious reports in a city
journal
Miss Alice Woodbridge, superintend-
ent of the Working Girls Society. will
cooperate with Miss Trapper by adding a
| department of Domestic Service in
Hotels" to the work of that organiza-
tion, which viii. it is hoped, in some
degree emancipate hotel servants from
the petty and unscrupulous tyranny Of
stewards and deputies.
Mrs. Il NJ. Stanley has still not fin
ished receiving wedding presents. One
of the most interesting has just come
to hand, and been acknowledged by her.
NJ s. Chalikian, member of the Ar
menian Church and community at Con.
stantinople, sent her gold cross as
wedding present, accompanied by let
ter in which he reminded her of the am
| tiquity of the Armenian Church and
the Armenian language.
Madame Rosa Bonheur lives in her
chalet of BY, at Thomery, near Fon-
taineblean. In her park, much of which
is wild forest. she keeps a number of
lions whelps. buffalo, some deer, and
several Italian cattle. She has made a
fortune in her art and now paints only
when she is in the vein. President and
Madame Carnot lately visited her, were
shown all her late studies and sketches,
and assured her that her genius had not
suffered eclip e.
In 1S4S Mrs. NJ. T. Hollander, of Bos-
ton, her wits being sharpened by the
necessity of earning living for herself
and her little ones, conceived the idea
of making and selling ready made cloth
ing for children, which before that time
could not lie bought at all Furnishing
only good material and honest work
manship, with excellent taste and judg-
ment, she secured an immediate client
age, and gradually built up one of the
largest and soundest businesses of its
kind 0or it was copied at once) in the
country, ~Hollander's" being.the symbol
of elegant and exclusive fashions
Besides being an excellent financier, a
far seeing manufacturer, and success
full designer, Mrs. Hollander was a phi
lanthropist, giving thought, labor, and
time to all reforms, but especially to the
cause of the advancement and educa-
tion of women. And when she died,
not very long ago, she bequeathed to her
children not only a fortune, earned by
her unaided capacity. but a reputation
for honesty, ability. and benevolence
such as few women have had the oppor-
tunity 10 win.
Lady cooks are beginning to establish
themselves in London. At a recent
cooking exhibition in the Westminster
town hall a class of ladies from the
recognized schools of domestic economy
made display that surprised the cater
ers and hotel men. Among the ex'
hibitors was Mrs Jeanette Miller, an
Irish lady who, having taken the highest
culinary diploma, has boldly donned the
cap and apron and gone out to ladies'
houses to dress lunches, dinners. and
ball supperz At the Westminster ex
hibition she stood between range and
the pantry and made seed cakes, fried
cakes. and pattycakes with which she
fed the hungry and admiring crowd.
Mrs. Jeanette Miller says that the
cooks Is the most understocked pro
fession in the woman's kingdom She
is, however. very emphatic in stating
that to succeed q girl must understand
high class cooking, which can only b'
obtained through actual practice in ths
kitchen under an accomplished cook
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