The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1891-09-12
IvomAN's work AND woRL

Professor Mary e. Byrd, Of Smith C'd'-.
lege, has been elected a member of tIo
British Astronomical Association.
Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer announces
from the platform that there are to-day
90 1000 girls in the colleges of America.
Tho widow of Richard Proctor, tho
great astronomer, is to be curator O.
Proctor Memorial Observatory at san
Diego, Cal
Mrs. Grover Cleveland is vice president
Of the New York Free Kindergarten AS
sociation, and is much interested in the
education of poor children.
Miss Grace Dodge, the founder Of tho
working women's clubs Of New York, is
tall and commanding of appearance and
has the action of trained athlete.
Marie Dietarle, the daughter of the late
Emile Won Marcke, the cattle painter,
follows her fathers profession and
specially. She receives good prices for
her work.
Mrs Oscar Wilde is said to be great
contrast to her husband She is very
quiet, while he is rather loud she is in
clined to be commonplace, while he is
brilliant in conversation.
Hrs Alexander Bremen, one Of the
deputy factory inspectors Of New York,
knows as much about machinery, eleva.
tors, heating, plumbing, ventilating, and
sanitary Improvements as any man oD
the force.
Each year Of Chief Justice Fuller's resi-
dence in Washington has witnessed the
debut of one of his seven charming
daughters. This year Miss Mary Fuller
returns from her long stay in Berlin to
enter society at the capital.
Rev. Edward Beecher's adopted daugh'
ter received at her baptism the name Of
Voice Adams. She was one of a family
of 10 children, whom her father, great
grandson of John Quincy Adams, sup.
ported by lecturing on "The Voice of Nat
ure.
Miss Jennie Chamberlain, now Mrs,
Naylor Leyland lives in "asplendid pal
ace at Albert Gate, London, whose marble
staircase and many priceless works Of
art" are sights. 1t isn't always the
American girls who marry titles who
have the best times abroad.
Countess Tolstoi, wife of the author,
recently made a successful business trip
to st. Petersburg. She secured ain audi
ence with the emperor, who was ex-
tremely kind to her, and promised to
protect her husband from all the annoy
ances to which the committee Of censors
has been subjecting him.
a directory of womens work of In
dianapolis shows them holding the po-
sitions of pianists, violinists, elocution-
lists, orators, physicians, artists, evangel-
lists, commercial travellers, woodcarvers,
teachers, stenographers, typewriters,
bookkeepers, and manicures, to say moth
ing of dressmakers, milliners and store
keepers.
Mrs. Lease, of Alliance fame, says that
she has gained more divorce suits than
any other lawyer in Kansas She did
not begin the study of law until after the
birth of her fourth child, who is now o
years old. She used to read Blackstone
while busy about the household work,
with crying baby in her arms.
The Countess of Caithness, the new
high priestess of theosophy, is the exact
antithesis of her predecessor, Blavatsky.
Her figure is slender, her manners ele-
giant, and her tastes refined. She dresses
in great taste. Her only resemblance to
Blavatsky lies in her fondness for dia-
monds, but that's pardonable womanly
weakness.
The Queen of the Belgians, who learned
4 IL L. r II.
pean, not the American, is fond of trav-
cling incog. Not long ago she and Prin-
cess Clementine were run out of a rail-
way compartment near Ostende by fat
woman, who declared she didn't believe
"such plain people had first class tickets,
anyhow"
Lady Dufferin, in her notes on India,
says: The Burmese women are great
pcrsonages, and I / y great part in their
households. They choose their own hus-
bands and divorce them when they like,
retaining their own property and all they
| have earned they are at liberty to marry
| again, whether as widows or divorces.
Mr. Barnard told me that when the last
census came in he thought the number Of
women who said they could read and
write was small so he made inquiries,
and from all parts of the country young
Ia lies replied that they did not like to
say they could read, lest young gentle
men, learning the fact, should write to
| them,