The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-02
FEMININE FANCES.

Agand niece of the Duke Of Wellington
is obliged to earn her living selling flowers
in a London arcade.
Mrs Langtry is the owner of a pin cush-
ion made of the silver in which vegetables
were ones served to the kings of Ireland.
Mrs Nellie Blessing Eyster, president of
the Women's Press association of the Pa
cific coast, is a grand niece of Barbara
Frietche.
Annie L. Kelly, the new reading clerk OF
the Colorado senate, is but nineteen years
of age. and is an elocutionist of consider
aole repute in the west.
Mrs Leland Stanford gives $50, 600 a year
to charitable objects, and keeps number
of women employed making pretty home
decorations for her Washington and Cali.
fornia homes.
One of the prettiest bellies of Tennessee
is Miss Willie Wilkerson, of Memphis.
She is dainty brunette. with graceful
figure, a coquettish face and captivating
charm of manner.
Mrs. Fl. l. Miller, of Chattanooga, Tenn,
has in her possession the first gun made
for the Confederate government. The gun
was made by Mrs. Miller's father, W. S.
McElwaine, at Holly Springs, Miss, in the
summer of 1861.
DR.. Mary Walker says: "You talk about
a woman who puts on trousers feeling like
fool Just you trail around with skirts
wet to your knees Topping about your
heels, and then tell me who feels the nearer
ready for cap and bells"
The Baroness Won Rogue has had another
interview with her daughter, Mrs. May
brick, who she says is much changed in
appearance since she was seen in the dock
and looks wan and worn. She is engaged
in the kitchen at the prison at cooking.
Mrs. Talmage is busy woman, most of
her-time being devoted to helping her hus-
band in his literary and pastoral work. She
takes entire charge of her husbands mail,
and is frequently up soon after daybreak
to open it. Many of his letters she answers
herself.
Miss Virginia Hunt, of Greenville, Miss,
is considered one of the pretriest women in
the state She is a blonde Of the purest
type, of medium height and well rounded
figure Her eyes are violet in color, shaded
by brown lashes. She is connected with
the famous Blackburn family of Kentucky.
Dr. Edith Pechy-Phipson, who has been
appointed member of the senate of Bonn
bay university for her public spirited
action in speaking against the system of
child marriage in India, was one of the
first women to take the medical course of
Edinburgh university, which she entered
in 1869
Mrs. George Cavendish-Bentinck, the
American wife of the Duke of Port!and's
grandson, is New York girl, being a
descendant of the Livingstons of colonial
DAYS She is small and slight and very
pretty woman, and her home in Richmond
terrace has one of the most artistic interi-
OTIS in london.
Kate Field is not the large, dashing,
masculine woman that many believe she Is
by any means On the contrary. she Is ex-
ceedingly feminine aud unassuming. She
is rather small in stature, with an admir-
able manner and kDack OF saying things
that are remembered and passed along
from mouth TO mouth
Miss Hayden, the young Boston woman
who has won the prize for the best design
for the woman's building at the Worlds
fair, is only twenty-five years old She Is
a graduate of the Institute of Technology
in Boston, and her design shows remark
able talent, though she had not previously
Ncn any fame as an architect