Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31

ward the purchase of ssWheatland, Buch-
anan's home, TO be used as a park for
Lancaster, Pa
Chicago is said to have over GOO women's
clubs.
A New York woman boasts of having a
500 prayer-book.
The Bryn Mawr girls have invited the
Wellesley girls tc form an intercollegiate
association
Amelia e. Barr says of slang, that it is
note OF sayagery on our hearths and in our
drawing rooms
Julien Gordon's pet bit of bric-a-brac is
the swinging cradle in which the little King
of Rome dreamed his royal dreams.
The Archduchess Stephanie OF Austria,
widow of the Inflated Rudolph, is be-
trothed to Prince Miguel of Braganza-
The youngest woman lawyer in the
United States is Miss Alice Parker of Bos-
ton, who is reputed TO be only twenty-six.
Annie Besant, who is in London again,
has made the mistake of announcing that
she prefers American to English audiences.
The prize for the design of a seal for the
board of women managers of the Columbian
exposition has been awarded to Miss Sara
Bodtzer.
Princess May of Teck is said to be be-
lever in palmistry and to while away even
ings in reading the lines upon the hands of
her friends.
Mrs. Bradley Martin wore at the New
York New Years ball tiara Of rubies
and diamonds, once the tiara of Marie
Antoinette.
One Of the attractions of the Chicago ex-
hloitlen IS to be pyramid OF 400 pl amos
conpected by electricity and manipulated
by one woman.
Mrs. Annie Louise Cary Raymond's
latest gift to the Maine general hospital is
the complete fitting up of two rooms for the
use of patients.
The Prince of Wales has become male
associate of Lady Wolverton's Needle
Work Guild. The Guild has tiourishing
prototype in America.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett has given
John Donohoe, the Chicago sculptor, now
living i'll Rome, commission for a life-slze
portrait of her lost child.
Ladies' auxiliary committees have been
organized in ifty-ive counties in Pennsyl-
vania, and are at work to secure fine
showing of women's work.
Mrs. Frances Fisher Wood has been
studying some figures with the result to
find that nine-tenths of the children of col
lege-bred women survive infancy-a record
never before equaled in any age, class or
country.
Two books, which have caused much
questioning as to the authors, are "Mercy
Philbrick's Choice and "Kismet,' both of
which, it is now known, were written by
women, the first by Helen Hunt Jackson
and the second by Julia c. Fletcher, under
the name Of George Fleming.
OF the Southern girls at the Woman's
medical college, Philadelphia, is Miss Min
ME c. Archer, daughter of Dr. w. A.
Archer, 4 prominent iysician of Houston,
North Texas female college. VIII practice
in the South.
DR.. Lucy NJ. Hall of Brooklyn, who was
recently married at the home of Clara Bar
ton in Washington to Mr.. Robert George
Brown of New York, is a general social IA
vorite. She is known to be much inter-
ested in all work for woman's physical and
mental advancement.
Two Kentucky girls have lately gradu-
ated from the Cincinnati technical school.
They completed the course of engineering
and carpenter work, and became experts in
the use of carpenters tools and in the ma
nipulation of steam machinery. They have
been offered work upon the wonan's build
ing at the Worlds fair
Mrs. Potter Palmer has asked permits
sion of the German government, through
the imperial Worlds fair commissioner,
Herr Wermuth, to. have the grand bronze
doors Of the Strasburg cathedral repro
duced in the doors of the main entrance of
the Woman's building of the Columbian ex-
position. The bronze doors of the Stras-
burg cathedral were designed and wrought
by Sabiua Steinboch, who was the sister,
assistant and adviser of the architect.