St. Paul daily globe., 1892-07-31
BY THE WAY,
Notes on Women's Doings in Vari-
Gus Places

Gus Places.
Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant, her son Jesse
and his wife and only child, bright
| little boy, are regis tered at CranstOn's
hotel, West Point. The other day Mrs.
jefferson Davis and her daughter ar
rived at West Point and are also STOP
| ping at Cranston's. Thus the widow of
the first and only president Of the Con-
! federacy and that of the Union general
! who broke the power of the South and
| compelled Davis to discontinue his
dreams of Southern Confederacy, are
under the same roof. Mrs. Grant is
|, now stout, medium-SiZed, gray.haired
lady, past the prime of life, with a
pleasant word and smile for her friends.
Almost every day she and her daughter
in-laW and the little boy may be seen
seated in carriage that is being rap
idly driven toward the West Point
academy.
The Lady Mary Gordon to whom
Swinburne has dedicated his new book
IS the poets aunt and the Youngest of
the twelve children of the third earl of
Ashburnham. To this lady, a particu-
| larly charming, refined and intellectual
woman, her nephew is greatly attached,
| and often visits ber at her beautiful
estate in the Isle of Wight. 1t is said
that i'll sending her books he unbends to
to the extent of signing himself 'Biliie'
therein.
Here is correct item which may be
suggestive to women. Mr.. Gladstone
dotes on tea, but wants it made by his
wife. Mrs. Gladstone. of course, is a
good cook. Did any man whose wife
was poor cook ever become great?
'John Law" Miss Harkness). who
has been in indifferent health for some
time, has, it is said, been ordered by the
doctors to give up the editorship of the
Novel Review, and the August mum Der
will be brought out under new mana ge-
ment.
man down in Georgia has built
number of houses which are occupied
by widows free OF rent.
OF the 100000 women in Italy, about
2,CO0,000 are employed in industrial
labor ana over 100000 III agriculture.
The province of Bhopal, India. is
celebrated for the unusually great adj
ministrative powers of its female SOW
ereigns.
Miss Ma:hilde Blind has returned
from Egypt, having greatly profit ed by
her sojourn near the Nile. She is BUSY
on another romance.
Nine. Bertaux is a candidate for the
fauteuil in the French Academy of Fine
Arts rendered vacant by the death of
the sculptor Bonassieux.
Mrs. Sydney Buxton has written a
book entitled 'Side Lights Upon Bible
History" which is published by Mae
milan. Mrs. Buxton is daughter of
Sir John Lubbo elk.
Miss Tsuda, a Japanese student at
Bryn Mawr college. Pa, is endeavoring
to raise $4,000 to found scholarships for
Japanese women who will return to
Japan as teachers.
Mrs. Tel Sono,a Japanese lady of high
education. who has been a LAWYER i'm
Toxic, is about to open a school IN
Japan for teaching Christianity to the
native women.
A list Of musical compositions bv
| women from 1915 to 1855 includes fifty-
five serius operas, fifty-three comic op-
eras and two oratorios, besides few
cantatas, ballads, etc.
Max O'Rell, alIuding to wedding
ceremony, says: "rhe French woman
gains her liberty, the Engieh woman
loses hers and the American woman
! continues to do as she pleases.''
Elizabeth More, a pretty young girl
of EdgeWOrth, with the help of a girl
I friend, has recently built little cottage
for herself, laying the foundation, do
ing all the cafpentering and plastering
| the rooms.