Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-03-16
woNAx.s WORK AND AIMS.

Mrs Putnam. sister TO James Russell
lowell, is said to be the best inguist in
Boston.
1t is proposed to start a new maga-
zine in New York, with Mrs. Mary Rily
Smith as editor.
London possesses one lady stock.
broker. one lady landscape gardener,
aud two lady dentists.
Jennie Porter Arnold, now Mrs. w.
IL Dale, 5 engaged upon a novel which
IS nearing completion.
Mrs Edison. wife of the inventor, is a
good musician and she and her step
children constantly practice together.
Miss Emily HoNland has been elected
member of the board of directors of
the First National Bank, of Aurora, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood has
accepted an editorial position on the
Chicago Graphic. and viii >henceforth
reside in that city
Mrs. Philip ID. Armour, the wife Of
the Chicago millionaire, is a notable
housekeeper, and prides herself upon
her culinary successes.
An application to the French author
tiles has been made by Lady Caithness
for permission to erect statue of Mary
Gu en of Scots near her home in Paris
Mrs Alice Wellington Rollins is writ
ing her exl eriences in AIaska and Bra.
ziL They will be published in a series
of articles called "From Palm to Gla-
cier.
lFdoa Trau tho oo,,al;.t =. bo,.oi,. On
She is demure, unassuming little
woman, who talks slowly and with hesi-
tation. Much of her work is done on q
typewriter.
Rose Terry Cooke advises young girls,
even those gifted with literary talent,
to place no dependence on literature as
bread winner. "The life, she says,
is full of modification, anxiety, and
disappointment.
London claims to possess the most
beautiful woman in the world. the wife
Of William Morris, artist, poet, and So
cialist She keeps very secluded and
very few of MIR. Morris's close friends
have ever seen her.
Miss Carrie l. Horton, an English girl,
won the first prize for butter study Of
Marechal Neil roses at the Cheshire
dairy show, and now the museum men
want her to make butter roses by the
year at high salary.
Kageama Hidde, the young school
mistress who has become the leader of
the Radical party in Japan, is hardly
more than "a years old. She is of me-
dium height and fsutless figure, and
her eyes are large and beautiful
In spite of the advancing years and
increasing fleslI of the Empress of Rus
sia, she has not lost her taste for dane
ing. but indulges in that pastime nearly
as freely as she did in her youth, when
her devotion to it won her the name
among her friends of the "grasshopper.
A colored orphan asylum has been
founded in Georgia by colored woman,
Mrs. Carrie Steele. She has built
cottage and stable, larger building is
going up. and four acres of land around
it have already been put under cultiva-
tion. Mrs Steele has collected the
money entirely by her personal efforts.
Tie wife of Francis Scott Key, a
grandson of the author of the ~Star
81 tangled Banner" is about to 60 on
the stage. Mrs Key is granddaughter
of that brilliant lawyer and statesman
William Pnckney. of Maryland, aud is
familiar figure in Baltimore society.
Her maiden name was Tiffany, and she
is connected with Rev. Doctor Tiffany.
A party of 80 young English women
will start at once for Western Australia
under the auspices of the British Wom-
ems Emigration Association. The colony
is as large as France, the climate health
full, and the colonists prosperous; but
there is such lack of women that the
government has taken pity on the
housekeepers who can get no help and
the bachelors who can find no wives,
and the passages Of women are to be
paid
Miss Agnes Weston, the sailors friend,
an English lady well known for life long
phiIanthrophy, has been made superin-
tendent of work among the sailors for
the Worlds w. G. 7. u. The perma-
nent address of Miss Weston is Slilor's
Rest, Portsmouth, England She has
secured the erection of two large build
ings, one at Devonport and one at Ports
mouth. In one, with her staff Of work.
ers, she lives, at her own expense. As
she wrote to friend, Like one Of old,
dwell among my own people, and
they are the blue jackets No woman
has ever devoted herself so long and so
effectively to the welfare of those who
go down to the sea in ships
Emma Abbott was very charitable.
Here is cory of letter received
from her by a.friend in Charleston just
after the earthquake. 1t may be mem
toned that Miss Abbotps name does not
appear In the published list IF contribu-
tors to the fund. The letter came from
Europe: Il have just read~of Charles
toms great misfortune, and / wish /
could express to you my sympathy and
sorrow for my poor friends Will you
please distril ute the inclosed among my
friends --, who know must have
suffered heavily. Please don't put my
name in the papers. You know they
say that Abbott loves TO advertise, and
80 she does; but this is not for advertis-
ing purposes Tie inclosed was $500.
Mary E. Wilkins first attempt at reg
ular story writing was sent to Harper's .
Bazaar. then edited by the late Mary L.
Booth. Upon oiening the envelope
Miss Booth, after a lIasty glance at the