The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-06-04
The suspender girl bias come q stay.

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is one of the few successful women CON-
posers of orchestrations.
When two rings are used at a wedding,
the bride pays for the groom's ring and
the groom for the brides.
In. Finland the women consider kiss
on the lips as the greatest insult, even
from their own husbands.
Open work scrim with ribbons run
through it makes a pretty strip tor the
centre Of the dinner table.
With her income of $500, 900 a year
Mrs. William Aston ought to be able to
struggle along comfortably.
Lexington, NO.. boasts woman ex-
press agent, woman manager of tele-
graph Office and postmistress.
A new dormitory for Vassar is to be
built with the $50, 900 that is that col
leges share of the Fayerweather bequcst.
Rubbers of white leather are among
the odd things bought by fashionable
women to wear over their party slippers.
Give your best young man bouton-
Mere OF nine violets if you would have
him fashionably attired as to his button
hole.
The Duchess of Marlborough now buys
her clothes in New York. She says the
American modistes are better than the
English.
Queen Victoria has decided to send t,
the Worlds Fair some specimens Of her
knitting and spinning, done when she
was girl.
The late Amelia B. Edwards was
woman of letters. She was entitled to
wear Pm. NJ, L. H. D. and LII. D. after
her name.
DR.. Mary T. jacob, in New York
City, and DIR. Mary Hoxon, in Washing
ton, are each reputei to earn $40, 900 a
year at their profession.
Mrs. ingalls, is quite unlike her dis
tinguished husband in physical appear
ance, for she is as short and plump as the
Kansas ex-senator is tall and thin.
Miss Alice Rideout, whose designs for
sculpture at the Worlds Fair were ac-
cepted, has just taken the contract fos
their execution, the sum being $500.
The "Coston Signals"-the colored
light system of signalling both on land
and sea-was the invention of Mrs,
Martha J. Coston, of Washington, D. G.
More than 400 married women have
applied to the Bureau of Charities and
Corrections in New York City since the
LIST of January for relief for themselves
and their children.
The women of Toronto, Canada, not
only took an active part in the late local
elections, but they compelled the men to
work as well, and SO robbed the rings of
much of their power.
Miss Lalla Harrison, of Leesburg, Lon.
don County, Va, has been selected as
the most beautiful woman in that State
to represent it as one of the original
thirteen States at the Columbian Ex-
position.
The women of Cincinnati, Ohio, have
asked for separate room in the Woman's
Building of the Worlds Far, which they
wish to furnish and decorate throughout
as illustrative of the culture and art of
that city.
Hermann, Lane County, Oregon, can
boast of quite brave young lady who
has recently taken up claim on the east
fork of Indian Creek. Her claim is above
all other settlers and it is saidAshe stays
weeks by herself.
1t is said that enterprising London
shop-keepers employ we'll dressed women
to stand in front of their windows and
by "ohs" and ''ahs" of delight attract
peoples attention to the glory of the
goods inside the windows.
The jewels OF Mrs. Astor, widow of
the multi-millionaire who died, recently,
in Paris, are probably the finest in
America. At times she has appeared in
public wearing precious stones valued at
between $50, 900 and 100000.
The money order department of the
Pittsburg (Penn.) Postoffice is exclusively
In charge of Miss Mary Steele, and the
receipts, almost $500, 900 last year,
mark it as probably the largest business
handled by any woman in America.
Miss Howe, the woman who won the
second prize in the competition for de-
signs for the Women's Building in the
Columbian Exhibition. was classmate
OF Miss Hayden, who won the first prize
In the Boston Institute of Technology,
Ex-Empress Eugene, of France, felt
so acutely the complete absence of rec
ignition which she experienced when
walking about Paris last year that she
declined to stay there on her way to
Cape Martin, though much pressed to do
so.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has asked permits.
sion of the German Government to have
the great doors of the Strasburg Cathe-
dral, which were designed and wrought
by Sabina Steinbock, reproduced for the
Woman's Building of the Columbian Elk
hibition.
A fashion writer from Paris calls this
''the banner year Of fashion, for there
II nothing ugly. Mam'selle wonders if
she D,,sSian hInuaoO han