The free press., 1893-06-22
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ages OF twenty anu tWeuby Hf0 'AA "
any other time of life.
The Empress of Russia's physician
when in attendance upon his august
natient receives fee of $3.50 day.
Walking, riding and fencing, the
women physicians say, are among the
best eymnastic exercises for women.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poet
ess. is said to have one fad in matters
of dress, and that is for Empire gowns.
In lifting sick woman, say a nurse,
always put the arms beneath the pill
low instead of under the patients
back.
There is a greater excess OF women
in the population of the District OF Co.
lumbia than elsewhere in the United
States.
Miss Helen Bradlee, of Boston, haa
given $50, 900 to add to the comforts OF
women patients at the Mclean Asylum
in that city.
Doctor Mary Putnam jacob has
been elected Chairman of the section
on neurology at the New York Acade-
my of Medicine.
Queen Victoria has not worn corsets
for many years. Princess Beatrice
follows her mother in this respect and
has also discarded the corset.
The infant daughter of the Duchess
of Fife has already entered apon her
duties as philanthropist. She has
Joined the Children's League of Pity.
Nine. Brochard, superintendent of
the Lemon Hospital, of Paris, has re-
ceived the ribbon of the Legion of
Honor for faithful service in nursing
the sick.
"The Literary Ladies" of England,
whose annual banquet is one of the
events of the London season, have
properly changed their official name to
the "Women Writers"
A new fellowship, worth $500 year,
has been established at the State Uni
versity of California, and Miss Kate
Werts, of the Oakland High School,
has been selected for the place.
One of the dentists of New York is
Olga Feymann, d. D. S., Western
girl, young and pretty, with aristocratio
features and the intelligence which
comes from education and travel.
Walter Damrosch says that Miss Mary
Louise Clary, of Louisville, who re-
Gently made her debute in New York,
has the most beautiful and powerful
contralto voice he has ever heard.
Nine. Albani designs her own oper.
attic dresses, which cost on an average
from $500 to S40O. She has ward
robe for over twenty operas, some of
which require several different dresses.
The King of SPANS aunt, the In
fanta Eulalie, is said to be an indefat-
igable sportswoman. She hunts inces-
sanity, drives four-in hand, and
dances like young girl, though she is
forty-two.
Mrs Lyme Stephens is the only
woman who has ever presented q
cathedral to religious community. It
stands at Cambridge, England, is dedi-
Gated to Roman Catholic worship and
cost $400, 900.
Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania,
has appointed five women as notariea
public, his first nominations under the
new law regarding that Office. One OF
them is Miss Hills, manager of the
Harrisburg Telegram.
Two hundred women are practicing
dentistry in this country. A Southern
young lady. Miss Anna Yokum, was
graduated from the Alabama College
of Dentistry at its last commencement
and was valedictorian of her class.
Mrs @. H. Green is Secretary of the
Society of Cliff Dweller Archaeology
of America, and has proved her right
to her Office by the discovery of an
ancient piece of cliff pottery designed
after the pattern of Maltese cross.
The Dowager Duchess of Sutherland
was sent to prison in London the other
day on contempt of court. Several
years ago she spent several months in
America. She is very handsome wo-
man and has dazzling complexion.
A movement to erect statue to
Queen Isabella of Spain has been
started by several society ladies of New
York, headed by Mrs. c. Van Etten
Mack. The intention is that the statue
shall stand at the Eighth avenue en-
trance to Central Park, facing the statue
of Columbus.
Mrs. Irene Sheridan, daughter of
Major-General Rucker, United States
Army, and widow of General Philip
Sheridan, still lives in the residence in
Washington which was given to the
General by his Chicago friends. She
devotes her life to the training of her
four children.
AS result of newspaper contest, a
woman was found in Boston who can
wear shoe No. IL (childs size) of A
width, u inches in length and q
inches in width at the broadest part of
the sole. The winner is a young lady
twenty years old and four feet eight
inches in height.
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