, 1890-09-04

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Graco Greenwood (Mrs. LippincotO
has q cottage at Manitou springs, Colo,
and recently made an old-time, 6urro'
back trip to the summit OF Fixes fenk.
Fanny Davenport is said TO have
brought two ssps homo with her. One,
of course, has an important role in her
"Cisopatra" and the other Is its under
study.
Miss Vida u. Scudder, OF Boston, is
the ruler and mighty chief of the College
Settlement Association just now expert
menting with the gutter snipe morals OF
Rivington street.
Chicago has O protective agency for
women and children. In the last three
years the agency has collected nearly
50, 600 of wages due shop girls, seam
stresses, domestics and clerks
Miss Letter, daughter of l.. Y. Letter,
who made several million dollars in
Chicago Just after the great fire, has
been presented to the queen and is now
at Cowes, mt the invitation OF the Prin-
cess of Wales.
Mrs. James Robert Mckee has taught
her small son TO refer to her In the
sweetest and most enduring terms. Ask
Baby Mckee where he got certain
dress or hat and he will tell you, my
booful mamma"
Ifrumor can be credited, Miss Grace
McDonouRh is heiress to 81, 900, 900. This
Pacific belle is the daughter of Mrs.
Kate McDonough, who built tho Cali
| fOrnia thentcr, and cousin OF Mrs.
Henry Moss and Mrs Fred May, of this
| city.
Tho Woman's Franchise League, Of
lnr kua t.. h, nsr
| othy restaurant Of late. A few evenings
| and is said to have wearied IL with ''the
same old things that, though time hon
ored, have grown stale"
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb. editor of the
"Magazinc of History" has been en-
gagged to deliver series of lectures be-
fore tho Scidl society. Last Friday she
opened the course in the parlors of the
Brighton Beach hotel, taking for her
subject THE Uses of History"
Miss Emily Hagar has the reputation
| Of being the prettiest dancer In Cali
fornia. She bears striking resent blance
| to the portrait OF Nine. Recamier, whose
dress she affects. Being something of
an artist she amuses herself painting
her own and reproducing the portrait OF
her ideal.
The Empress of Germany is an accom-.
plished needlewoman, and has always
embroidered the clothes of her children.
As Princess William she heard the little
princes say their prayers every night,
but now she has so many other duties to
perform sne is Obliged to leave them to
their attendants.
Houston, Tex, has a commission firm
doing business under the name of Foster
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women. They are members of the
board of trade and cotton exchange and
conduct real estate agency IN all its
branches. last January their sales
amounted to s5O00O0.
Lady Herberton, the English dress re-
| former, has sanctioned a new sort OF
dress for tennis, boating shooting and
outdoor wear generally. IL looks like
an ordinary dress. but inside the foun-
dation is closed ut the hem. forming n
kind Of divided skirt. which does away
with the wearing Of petticoats.
Miss Jennie Dumphcy, of San Fran.
cisco, Is sole heir to fortune of 5000
600, left by married sister Her father
owns 100000 acres of Nevada land and
extensive ranches in Texas and South
ern California. This pretty beiress is q
horsewoman, something of musician
"hN Nsh shiOV - INV - So"bOJs
Miss Eleanor l.. Fleury, Of the
Women's School of Medicine, has won
the highest honors in three colleges
that IL is possible just now for woman
student TO attain. She has been OF
lered a post In the India Medical col
lege by Marchioness Dutferein, and II
is very likely that she will be made
president of the staff of physicians.
Miss Kate Marsden, an English woman,
has been decorated by the empress with
the insignia of the Russian Red Cross.
Miss Marsdeu and her four sisters left
home when the Turco- Russian war
broke out and nursed the sick and
wounded Russians on the Bulgarian
battle fields. All ot the young women
are trained nurses, having graduated
from several London colleges.
Nnntucket's Sorosis was founded by
Mrs. Rebecca A. Morse, vice president
of the New York Sorosis. This delight
full island club has been described by
tile Rev. Phebe a. Hanaford in her
charming book, the Heart of Siascon.
set" Mrs. Hanaford is a lineal de-
scendant of Tris,ram Coffin and has put
her heart and soul in sympathetic
and realistic piece Of landscape writing
Mrs. Eleanor Sherman Thackara,
daughter of General sherman, Is a new
conner in the literary field. She lives in
Philadelphia and intends 10 write n Sc
ries of articles on the edu cational and
ph lanthropic institutions of that city.
The Three Great Training Schools OF
Philadelphia, which appeared In u re-
cent number Of the Cosmopolitan, is the
first attempt of Mrs. Thackara.
Mrs. j. l.. Brightwen, of the Selborne
Society, has a book ready for publica-
tiun entitled wild Nature Won by
Kindness IN which she undertakes to
prove how amenable to kindness ami
mated nature is. The volume is filled
with anecdotes of her own pleasant relN-
tions with birds. brutes aud insects, and
many of the illustrations are from the
lady's own pencil. 1t Is book that
will make delightful reading Tor chill
drcn, us well as lovers OF outdoor liie.
Mrs. Mary Davidson Of Junction
City, Kan, appears to be one OF the
coming women who has arrived. She
Is by profession a silk culturist and
| considered one of the most successful
breeders of silk worms on the CONT
ncnt. For every ounce of worms raised
she is able to command an average oi
"a. 80. She has also written a manual
OF instruction which has large salo on
the prairies, each book being accom-.
panied by $500 eggs of the best breed.
While her business was getting started,
| Mrs. Davidson amused herself making
! flowers of cocoons, the process being OF
her own invention.
| Mauve letter paper. embellished with
a silver monogram. has made reappear.
ance In fashionable circles. 1t Is many
siciered chic, but an attempt is being
| made to revive il. Anot her Drctty STU,