The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-15
THE REALM OF.
FAIR
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Women or every rank go bareheaded in
Mexico.
A woman in Oregon has worked twenty
years as a stone cutter.
There is a colony of darkies in western
Alabama which is ruled over by it's own
queen.
Ann French, of Belfast. Me-, with a for
tune of over 800. 900. has just married an
itinerant reddler.
Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, Sir Morrell
Mackenzle's daughter, has q good reputa-
ton as a newspaper correspondent.
Mrs, Henry K. Updegrave, of Tower City,
Pa, is a great-grandmother at the age OF
AZ. She was married at the age of IA.
AWomnn, Miss Eleanor Ormerod, leads
the entomologists of England. Her first
studies were inspired by the exposure of
her fathers grain.
Mrs. Theresa Morris, a Chicago woman,
the mother of twenty-one childgen, is seek
ing a divorce from her husband on the
ground of cruelty.
Mrs. Edison, the wife of the man who has
applied the electric light to domestic pur-
poses, prefers candles to any other form of
household illumination.
In the days when wigs and powder were
fashionable ladies are said to have paid as
much as $500 for having their HAIR dressed
for special or state occaaions.
1t is Interesting to note that of the 328, 900
divorces granted i'll the United States dur
ing the last twenty years $4,000 were
granted at the request of wives.
In q recent lecture on London society. de-
livered in the British metropolis. Mrs. Fen
wick Miller said: ''society with a big s
means a handful of idlers in our midst
Sonora Isadora Cousins. of Santiago.
Chill, is said to be the uealthiest woman in
the world; owning land, railroads, ships.
minea, manufacturers, ETC., amounting to
billions of dollars in value.
The souvenir spoon craze has reached is
legitimate conclusion in the manufacture
of a ausan Is. Anthony spoon. which bears
not only her likeness and name, but also
the words Political Equality.'
"Nsver talk about yourself, YOUR dia-
eases your domestics or your dressess
Talk about your friends interests. not yonr
own" advises one of the moss interesting
eonversationalists among women-Aar-
gatet Fuller.
The names for the Pullman palace and
sleeping cars are oil selected by a daughter
of Mr.. PullmRn, and she is understood IN
know something about what's in a name
as she is said to got $1,000 a year for thai
service.
Queen Nictorla's appetite, always a mat
ter of envy among her delicate intimates. ia
said to be absolutely unlnl paired and ra-
maikably halcyon and healthy, as II vera
for a woman whose 73d birthday il lass
than two months oil.
Custom limits the empress of China IN
her palace grounds. Having desire to "a.
sist working girls through the establisbiuo
of a silk factory, TO be within her own sn,
pervision, ehe has had it built within tbs
palace borders.
One of the drawbacks connected witt
Queen Victories lofty station is the law
that forbids her reading documents or re.
ceiving any letters except from her owr
family until they have been scrutinized b.
the person IN charge Of the royal CORES.
pondence.
Mrs. Emma Perry, a pretty yonng widow
is a successful western rancher, and ia ap
patently perfectly fearless. She rides ovel
the prairie accompanied only by her dogs
and the b%itterest weather does not proven
her experimenting the rounding up of he
cattle.
The college-bred young lady is gradual,
overcoming the fears Of her detractors, an
proving that the higher education is NJ
more unlikely to unfit her for womanl,
cares and responsibilities than the man.
students college education units him TO
business. Sidney Smith once pithil,