The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-12

The women OF Venezuela use frefies foi
decorating their hair at night. They.are
fastened with silk threads.

The women or Venezuela use nrenles Tor
decorating their hair at night. They.are
fastened with silk threads.
The birth of little girl to Mrs. A. n.
Ease of Kansas City, Kan, brings out n
peculiar fact. The mother is l6 years old.
Her mother, Mrs. Spangler, Is at the
house, grandmother at 33, and Mrs. G..
NJ. Redman of st. Louis is also there. She
is the child's great grandmother, aged 50
years.
The princess gown will be the ruling
make this season, 10 the satisfaction of all.
IL suits alike the slender and the majestic,
the short and the tall. The much abused
train will survive another season.
except for the plaits in the back. Bodices
will continue elaborate.
DR.. Lawson Taft, the eminent London
physician, employs woman secretary.
DIR. TAFT says that he finds her in every
was efficient. She manages his large cor
respondence, jogs his memory as to his
appointments and keeps his desk free from
that chaotic state which overtakes nearly
every one burdened with many letters TO
write and TO answer.
"The Empress Of Japan" says Woman,
takes a keen interest in female education
and devotes all her savings to this object.
Every month she visits the school for
peeresses at Toki and personally inter
views each student and inquiries after her
progress and well being The japanese
girl students, while eager to embrace our
learning, have not copied our costumes
and habits and remain still the quaint.
gentle, grotesque musmees of Japan, clad
in the many colored and flowing kimono
and gorgeous obi"
The Vienna Congress OF Analytical
Chemists appointed committee to con-
slider whether sanitary control ought not
to be extended TO hairdressers' shops and
public baths, and whether the daily disin-
fection of the brushes and combs used in
shops and public places ought not to be
made obligatory by legislation. Another
question under discussion was the desr-
ability Of sanitary control of all publicly
advertised soaps, rouge and cosmetics.
Another evidence of Japan's rapid ad-
vance in western civilization is the fact
that the women of that country have
taken to journalism. An Englishwoman,
Mrs. Barnett, while in Kioto, was visited
by a member of the japanese fair sex,
who wished to interview her. The caller
introduced herself by saying: "My hus-
band he make the paper, and do the part
of visiting the outside country to help
forward him." The Kioto Journal ON the
following morning contained a long ac-
count of Mrs. Barnett.
A big crop of old maids seems immi-
nent, Judging from statistics. IL the sta
tistics of Great Britain are correct, the
excess of women and girls over men and
boys in that country is about 100000, an
increase in ten years OF about 100000 In
Germany the number of females in excess
of males is about 100000. In Sweden
and Norway the weaker sex" is in the
majority by about 250,000 in Austro-Hun-
gary by 600, 900, and in Denmark by 60,000.
In the United States Canada and Austria
liza the males are in the majority. In this
country there are about 100000 more
men than women.
The newest occupation for women is said
to be that of superintendent of weddings.
The superintendent who is usually q
youngish woman, is installed in the house
of the bride TO be some time before the
ceremony. She selects the trousseau, adj
vices what is latest and finest in under
wear, buys the material and designs, and
makes or superintends the making of the
gowns, knows all about stockings, boots,
gloves laces and handkerchiefs, sc to
the millinery and jackets and wraps, tells
the brides mother and sisters what to
wear, dictates TO the bridemaids, thinks
of everything and lets the engaged couple
enjoy themselves with unanxious minds.