Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-11-27
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mas special Weakuebb IOr lace.
Partisan women ride bicycles fol-
lowed by grooms, also on wheels.
There are eight women colonels of
the German Army who receive salaries
as such.
Mrs. Mackay, wife of the Bonanza
millionaire, is said to ha We the biggest
sapphire in the world.
An odd an expensive hand screen is
formed with the wing of raven at
tached to an ivory handle inlaid with
gold.
According to the last English census
there are 5000 women gardeners in
that country, and six women looking
after town drainage.
| Austria has recently allowed women
to practice medicine in Bosnia. In
other parts of the empire the profess
sion is closed to them.
An exquisite lamp shade recently
imported from Paris was of pale green
tulle, on which tiny humming birds
were fastened at intervals.
| Miss Alice Van Rensselaer,, of New
York, has one of the new fads of the
hour-a fan, in one corner of which is
an ivory miniature of herself.
Captain Magnus Anderson claims
that but for his wife the Viking would
not have been built and he would not
have sailed it across the Atlantic.
The Probate Court at New Bedford,
| Macs boo ou+bori1aI unnn,r 1o5x fo
change her name to Ella Rabbit.
Heretofore it has been Eta Rabbit.
1t is no longer the fashion to use
marks of punctuation in your letter.
"What pity" said one society lady
the other day, "for L had just mas
tered the art"
Young women of Germany have
superstition that if they bury drop
| of their blood under o rosebush it will
ever afterward insure the experiment
er pair of rosy cheeks.
Miss Helen Gould recently said in
answer to some inquiries about her
large expenditure on charities: ''To
be wealthy and not to know how to
enjoy money is to be in wretched
state.
| The coming woman ought to know
something. 1t is stated by Mrs. Alice
Freeman Palmer that 81 900, 900 has
been given in this country in the last
quarter of century to women's col
leges alone.
| How the bicycle interest has spread
among women is evidenced by recent
announcement in the advertisement of
Brooklyn dry goods firm, that rack
is provided for bicycles and "wheels
may be checked while ladies make their
purchases"
1t is intended to form girls cricket
club in connection with the South
London Polytechnic. Miss Helen
Smith, B. A., the lady superintend-
ent, maintains that the game is better
for girls than tennis, being much more
educational
The inventor of the menu holder,
with mirror back was undoubtedly n
woman. She understood the value of
sly look Mt hair flowers and COM
| plexion, 1t is such tonic to wit and
conversation to be assured one slook-
ing her best
Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop, the we'll
known traveller and writer of books of
travel, is the first woman to deliver an
address before the British House of
Commons She was summoned there
to tell what she had seen of the Chris
tians of Turkish Koordistan.
The three young women who passed
the entrance examination to Yale with
credit will have to get what satisfac-
tion they can from this source. They
will not be allowed to pursue their
studies under the elms within the in
closure sacred to the other sex.
Miss Mary Pulling took the first
honors in Mental and Moral Science,
English and French, at the recent
graduation exercises of the University
of London. On this occasion eighty
women took the B. A. degree in a
class of $40 graduates of both sexes.
One of the consignors to the New
York Woman's Exchange supports her.
self and family ON the sale of fruit
cake. The loaf is made of nutmeal
and frosted with cream heavy with
white fruit-bits of canned peaches,
cherries, pineapple, pear, ounce and
shavings of citrons, pistache and figs.
The baker gets $1.S0 for every cake
sold.
In an article on 1.-The Ethics of a
Dinner Party" Lady Magnus deplores
the practice of employing professional
entertainers to amuse guests, and
shows that hospitality of this sort is
vulgar and pretentious. Her ideal
dinner party is one constructed on
ethical principles which give equal
thought and attention to the dinner
and the party.
Rips in gloves should be stopped at
once. A small hole can be much more
neatly mended than large one But
tons should be sewed securely in place
and under no circumstances should the
ever useful pin do duty in their stead.
If collars or ruchings are worn, il