Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-11-19

as reward Tor the plucky ana reS0lute
manner in which they, some time ago,
saved two men from drowning outside
the Lervik lighthouse. They witnessed
the men capsize from the lighthouse, and,
although there was strong wind and a
| heavy sea, they at once entered small
boat that was lying close by, and without
thinking of the danger to which they ex-
posed themselves, they rowed out and
saved the two men, who would undoubt-
| edly have drowned had it not been for
their aid Two other Norwegian women
hold the medal for saving life.-[San
Francisco Chronicle.
TO BOOM FALSE HAIR.
The French hairdressers are circulating
q petition which they will submit to the
Minister of Fine Arts when it has 100000
signatures. The purport of the docu-
ment is that women be prohibited from
appearing in their hats in the theatres
subsidized by the government, and that
the coiffure of the ladies at such enter
tainments be according to the fashion de-
vised by the Hair Dressers' Association
The cause of this strange request is that
the trade in false hair has greatly de-
creased for the last few years and the
present fashion of dressing the hair in
German style threatens a still greater
falling off of the trade New Orleans
Picayune.
A RECENT SWELL WEDDING.
At the recent wedding in London, Eng
land, of the Countess of Dudley, nee
Gurney, the bridesmaids wore black
hats, and not only were the hats black,
but the plumes also, relieved, however,
by knots of cream lace. The Countess
went away in tailor gown of soft dove
color and white, the material of the finest
CLOTH cut with absolute plainness. A
white vest and collar and cuffs relieved
the bodice. Georgina Lady Dudley was
by many considered to look even lovelier
than the bride. The formers dress of
gray corded silk, trimmed with fine gui-
pure, worn with stylish princesse bon
net, was most becoming. 1t is said that
in answer to q question put to the Ger
man Kaiser as to whom he considered
the most beautiful woman he had met in
England he unhesitatingly gave the
palm to Georgina Countess of Dudley
New York Post.
HAwAIIs QUEEN.
1t is not SO hard to pronounce the
name of her gracious majesty the Hawai-
ian Queen, as it may at first sight seem,
who last month became u widow. Try
this - Lil-liee-woke-a-lanny. Accent
firmly the zee" and, if you can, run the
whole glibly off the tongue. Liliuoka-
lani means Lily-of- -the-Sky, but in every
day life the queen has been known until
recently as Princess Lydia, or Mrs.
Dominis. Dominis, her husband, was of
American birth. The Lily-of- -the-Sky is
past fifty, good looking, well educated, a
member of the womans board of mis-
sions, childless and credited with being
sensible. She is not supposed to like
the new constitution, which has limited
her powers, but has honestly accepted
the situation. People who think they
know something about her say she will
never expose herself to ridicule as did
her brother, the late King Kalakaua.
Her heir is girl of sixteen with pretty
eyes, the Princess V. Kaiulani Cleghorn.
Her father is Archibald Cleghorn, and
she is at school, much as if the Hawaiian
end of her name didn't belong to her, in
CnBldnu.- -lCnlcaBo Iost.
AMAzoNs OF THE FORGE.
Efforts are being made in Great Britain
to secure legislation that would prohibit
the employment of women and girls in
the business of making nails, spikes and
chains. 1t has been said that female
employment in this direction was of COM
pulsion, not of choice. Philanthropists
have pictured the dingy smithy, with its
lurid glare of leaping sparks, its sonorous
chime of the falling hammer, and the
British amazon with the biceps of an ath-
lete pounding the red-hot metal Eve
waiting on Vulcan has invoked the pity
and caress OF humanity, and furnished
the text for many political TRADE
against the government and civilization
that made such conditions necessity in
industrial life.
We have nothing to say against the
crusade for female emancipation, though
if the truth be told the amazons of the
black country, with its countless furnaces
and its smoke -darkened sky, are by no
means the serfs they seem to be, and
are so far exempt from the Winchesters
that have been conspicuous in some labor
troubles this side the Atlantic.
We do not believe in female employ
ment in such masculine business as
making spikes and chains, says the Age
of Steel. The forge is no place for a
woman, but if she chooses to swing u
hammer, who can prevent it? 1t may be
IN abnormal prediction, and by no means
coincident with the parlor and piano
idea of the modern Eve, but in an age
when women are captains of ships and
running municipal government OF cities
no law can annul the right of the gentle
sex to make the shoe or pound the anvil
That there are two sides of this ques
tion of female blacksmiths can no Longer
be doubted, since delegation of lady
ironworkers waited on the home secretar,
to protest against interference with theil
rights. There was nothing savoring Of
sickness, atrophy or nervousness in thi.
amazonian deputation. If dry good,
were but poorly represented, force ant
flesh were here in robust condition. On,
of the speakers had reached the modes
age Of fifty seven years, of which quit,
fifty had been spent in hammering iron
with occasional relapses, during which
she had bequeathed fourteen children t.
her husbands care and the census of til,
: nation.
A lass of sixteen years, who welded
, hammer weighing eighteen pounds
, pleaded her improvement in health as
reason why the law should not interfer
with her business. Appearances justified
, her logic, for she had the nerve of lion