Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-06

railway companies to provide smoking
carriages for ladies.
This paragraph appeared in an Eng
lish parish magazine; Tho mothers'
last meeting Of the season will be cele-
brated by a tea. to take place on Mon
day, May 10, Tea and shrimps. N B.
Mothers bring their own shrimps."
Mrs. Sarah q. Cooper, who organized
the first kindergarten in San Francisco
In 1880, has received moro than 100000
to enable her to carry on the work.
There are now sixty-fve kindergartens
In the city, and more than 10000 children
nave been trained in them.
1t is an undoubted fact that absinthe
Is becoming very favorite tipple among
smart women in England. It is sup
posed to improve tho complexion and
give vivacity to the conversation, but
American women, fortunately, require
no stimulant to make them vivacious.
Jane Hading, the French actress, is
said to be more beautiful off the stage
than on. She almost always wears black
on the street, being probably quite we'll
aware that 1t sets off her wonderful red
gold hair, lang dishing eyes, and pale,
mobile face advantageously.
Mrs. II. III. A. Beach of Boston, who
composed a jubilate for the Columbian
celebration, is authority for the state
ment that between the years 1915 and
1885 women composed 153 musical works,
including fifty-five serious operas, six
cantatas and fifty-three comic operas.
An effort was recently made to secure
the admission of women to membership
in the Laryngological association in
England. Although the attempt was un-
successful the women regard it as an evil
dence of advance that the question
should have been debated in the society.
A suggestion to campers or other folk
who are really roughing it is how to se-
cure cool butter without ice. Fill box
with sand to within an inch or two of
the top Sink the butter jars in the
sand; then thoroughly wet the sand with
cold water. Cover tho box as nearly air
tight as possible.
The English girl seems to be busy ac-
quiring knowledge. Miss Mary O'Brien.
for instance, has received scientific re-
search scholarship, worth about $3.50
year, for two years. She has decided to
devote herself for that period to the
study of the nitrogen supply of legum-
inous and other plants.
Miss Minnie Rush, a 2l-year-old young
woman of Lakeville, Ind, is the agent of
the Vandalia railroad at that place. The
receipts of her Office are about 80 900 q
month. Last fall she surprised the rail-
road officials by organizing excursions
and sending out several hundred people
at profit to the company.
Every year, on the 18th of June, Miss
Alice Longfellow provides special car
and invites party of working girls in
Boston to spend the afternoon at the old
Longfellow mansion in Cambridge. Diff
ferent girls are invited each season and
all the art treasures in the place are
thrown open to the visitors.
Miss Dudley, an English bicyclist,
holds the record for long distance rid
ing by women. She made the distance
of 100 miles, between Hitchin and Lin
coin, in a little more than seven hours,
or at an average speed of nearly four
teen miles an hour. This, too in regula-
tion petticoats, not the new style of
trousers.
Miss Lillian Bell, the Chicago girl
who wrote "The Love Affairs of an Old
Maid" is a member of Chicago's 400 and
is by no means an old maid herself, al
though she has been announced as
90 years of age. Miss Bell is young
enough to laugh to scorn for many years
yet, the ''all-over cloth shoe" epoch,
which she designates as the beginning
of old maiddom.
A French authority on cooking gives
these rules for testing the heat of an
oven: Try it with piece of white
paper. If too hot the paper will blacken
or blaze up; If it becomes a lighter
brown, it is fit for pastry; if it turns dark
yellow, it is fit for bread and the heavier
kinds of cake; if light yellow, the oven is
ready for sponge cake and the lighter
kinds of desserts.
1t is so rarely that a woman, however
musical, cOmposes good song, that the
success in that direction of Miss Mary
knight Wood is the more significant.
Her best known work was inspired by
Mr.. Richard Watson elders exquisite
verses, ''Thou," which she has setin the
most moving of melodies. The compost
tion is so arranged that there is oppor-
tunity for the cello, as we'll rs for piano
forte and voice.
The first stained glass window ever
designed by woman Is in Grace church
1t is we'll worth a visit from stranger or
resident, not only for this fact, but as
we'll for its wonderful beauty of design
and color. Its subject is Jacobs Dream, E"
| and its author is the Miss Tillinghast
square, whose $780, 900 tapestries for Mr..
| Vanderbilt and whose other equally
remunerative and artistic achievements
have won her deserved honor both in
this country and abroad.
''The handwriting of Ruth McEnery
Stuart" said young woman who has
made particular and practical study of
graphology, has the strongest tendency
to the artistic of any that | ever saw.
Such beautiful, unexpected curves and
graceful lines! There isn't a single char
acteristic of her charming literary work
that her chirography doesn't betray." 1t
may be added that all her stories, her
books even, are written upon ordinary
letter paper. She opens the sheet and
writes across it horizontally, using the
two middle pages as one.
A physician advises: Learn how to
rest. Don't wait to make a separate
business of it; let it become part of the
daily routine of occupation. Above all
begin relief, however slight, at the first
moment its need is indicated Stop work
at your desk; lean back and close the
eyes; relax the frame 80 far as possibl.
for fifteen minutes: lie down, il conven
lent, for the same length of time; in an,
wav rolieva the tension howeyer hriaH "