The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-31
INTERESTING INFORMATION.

Few women have more care or are moro
adversely gifted with capability than Nine.
Carnot. wife OF tho French President Her
| work begins at o'clock each morning. how
ever late the social functions at which she
must appear have kept her the night before.
of Letters are hf2Snght to her each
secretaries and appeals for relief are inquired
into and answered. She draws up the menus
the comfort Of her guests. keeps all her ac-
counts pays the tradespeople. and disburses
dtio mt to ali this she gances through the Lon
deems advisable for her husband to read. and
ness with the aid Of his secretaries.
pretty incident is reported of royal low
ers. the King and Queen of Italy. Early in
the season Queen Marguerite asked her royal
consort for his opinion as to whether she was
tune Of white mus in. He replied: This is
matter which requires reflection" Two weeks
box OF beautiful White gowns. Which he had
ordered for his wife from Paris.
Oregon has girl mail carrier Miss Minnie
Weston. bravo spirited and beautiful
girl. Just out OF her teens. Her route is
through o rough and lonely country where
wild beasts frequently dispute passage with
her. and tramps sometimes appear. only to be
warned away 6 ti,t the fash Of her revolver She
four or five times each week.
A Philadelphia authoress. Miss Laura N.
Ford. hos purchased ten acres Of land on one
of tho highest submits OF the Green Noun
tains. in the heart OF wilderness. where she
proposes to clear the forest, pioneer fashion.
and to found IA summer colony. She has chris
mountain pinnacles that tower above it. '''''
Few women have aspred to the manage
ment and control OF daily political paper. but
Mrs Frank Il. Lynch wife OF the recently de-
ceased editor OF the Leayenworth. Standard,
has taken the active business and editorial
management OF the payer which her husband
WITH ahH dusher OF sm Of
journalists. from which she seems to have in
herlted instincts Of tho true. refined newspaper
character. together with keen insight into
passing affairs and fine perceptions as to tho
obligations OF her new office.
Prof. Ruggero Bonghi has lately succeeded
in establishing successful girls college near
Rome. under the active patronage Of Queen
Marguerite, whose name 1t bears. One OF It's
most recent innovations is q special section Of
instruction in practical agriculture and dairy
work.
Mrs. H. J. Langdon Of Lassen county. the
woman stage driver Of the Sierras. owns a
stage line that extends for several hundred
miles through the mountains. employs scores
OF horses and vehicles and carries the United
States mail. merchandise. and passengers.
She Is an excellent whip. and. seated on the
box OF her wagon maninulates tho lines. con-
trolling four or more horses as gracefully as
the famous Hank Monk Mrs. IanCdon has
other kinds OF active business to manage he
sides her stage line. and sees nothing incom-
patible in u woman's succeeding In this field
In which even experienced men frequently
find difficulties.
Our popular story Of the city mans child
who only knew her father as 'the gentleman
who comes here Sunday and carves tho joint"
is matched by a Lyndon saying, now going the
bef vsors ase4 s Ss
babys age: We'll. really. IL you are going. to
the nurse"
The women teachers Of St. Paul. Mimi. re-
ceiye equal salaries with the men. another
instance of the proyerbial Western justice to
and appreciation OF women which the older
civilization Of the East Is too conservative to
follow.
Miss Elizabeth Boyce Is the only young
woman who takes the Columbia College B. A.
degree this year. Miss Doyce Is not q Barnard
College student. but she receives the regular
Columbia degree. and has her name printed
on the commencement programme In the list
OF graduates and In regular alphabetical
order. Miss Boyce took the full curriculum
required I'm Latin. Grssk, and m4themstics,
modern languages. and political science With.