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The violin habit.
A well-cared hand is a fine point
IN beautiful woman.
Miss Ellen Terry, the actress, Is an
amateur photographer.
The Maine Federation Of Women's
Clubs has 100 members.
In these days the art of fine needle'
work is in danger of decay.
Steaming the face and then rubbing in
olive or almond oil Is good thing.
The statement is made that women
who Iido bicycles are not graceful
walkers.
The Queen of Italy seldom appears In
a hat, and her bonnets are small aud
close.titting.
Mrs. Astor, the New York leader OF
fashion. never pays less than S25 for
pair of shoes.
Queen Victoria, of England, is very
fond of making omelettes, and 1t seems
has several receipts.
There is a tendency in the new silver
ware to return of the straight futed
patterns of the Seventeenth Century.
In these days of cheap stuffs the poor
est housemaid may wear o dress finer
than that Justinian refused to his Queen.
Henrietta Herschfeld, the first woman
graduate of the Philadelphia College OF
Dental Surgery, is assistant CO urt dentist
in Germany.
A scientific authority has just given
out that woman's beauty arrives at Its
maximum only after she has passed her
thirtieth year.
Florence Nightingale, the famous war;
nurse, has started a health crusade
among the villages of Buckingham
shire, England.
Miss Marguerite Gombert has won her
degree of Doctor of Philosophy and
Letters at Brussels, Belgium. She Is the
first woman to do so.
On the authority of Miss Romans,
professor of gymnastics, the muscular
young women of Boston discard corsets
and high heeled boots.
A sewing machine was included
among the presents the ex-Empress of
Germany gave her daughter, Princess
Margarethe, on her recent marriage.
Mrs. Olive Thornc Miller, the welk
known ornithologist, has gone on trip
to Utah, California and the Yellowstone
Park in pursuit of her favorite study.
Golf is going to be fashionable game
at Newport, r. l., this year. Among
the ladies who are now studying up the
subject are Mrs. Burke Roche and Nine.
| LAMA.
Princess Kaiulani OF Hawaii is said to
| have much musical taste aud to be fond
of playing the ukilili, an instrument that
| is described as ga cross between the
guitar and mandolin"
The latest club for women In London
is one tor the use of clerks, bookkeepers,
stenographers, telephone girls and others
who earn their daily bread in tais city.
but hive in the suburbs.
Miss Martha Jordan, of Dallas, Texas,
is the first colored woman to prepare
herself for practicing dentistry. She Is
attending the Dental Department OF
Denver (Col.) University.
Lady Haberton, the originator OF the
English Short Skirt League, is making
thousands of converts to her opinion that
walking dresses should be at least five
inches off the ground all around.
The Duchess of Marlborough is espe-
cially given to gray of the shade OF the
inside of doves wings. Gray velvet is
quite favorite of her grace, and with
it she wears her wonderful pearls.
The purple or cardinal veil is now
supplanted by new favorite, the veil
which comes in dark shades of green.
This color is said to be becoming to all,
while the purple can only be worn by
few.
The fashionable violet known as "emi-
nence," or ''pontihcal" purple, ia by no
means universally becoming color, AMI
women who have not really very good
compilations should eschew it In oil its
ramiications.
The prettiest women in the world are
said to be the women of Northern Italy.
| Tney are a mixture of the French gentry
and the old Italian nobility and inherit
the vivacisy of one country anl Oriental
beauty of the other.
Secretary of State Gresham, like many
other men in public life, has wife who
attends to great deal of his corre-
| spondence for him. Mrs. Gresham is
fond of Washington, but likes it best
when it is most deserted.
The d-fashioned gray haircloth is
offered at New York for dress Innings at
twenty-f five cents to thirty-ive cents in
narrow widths. Its sticky, prickly
edges suggest any amount of discomfort
| for those who handle or wear it.
Miss E nily Faithful, the noted Eng
lish social reformer, is endeavorin, to
organize in London suburban homo in
which working women aud girls can
each have small private room at low
rent, with the use Of common reception
and dining rooms.
The ex-Empress Frederick worked