The Opelousas courier., 1893-11-25
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The Queen of Corea has a lady ply
sician who gets q salary Of $l5, 900
yearly.
The Grown Princess Of Sweden IS
trying to establish women photograph.
ersi in Stockholm.
For the privilege Of wearing trou
gerst the French Government charges
women a tax Of from SO to $l2 a
year.
The Queen Consort Of Siam owns g
wonderfully beautiful thlmble. It is
shaped like a lotus and made Of solid
gold, studded with diamonds.
Mrs. Henry G. Newton. the wife of
a New Haven lawyer, was the first
woman in Connecticut to register as g
voter for the coming school election.
Among the ladies who own solid gold
dinner services are Mrs. Aston and
Mrs. Andrews. of New York. and Mrs.
George William ChlIds, of Philadel-
phia.
Miss Amye Reade, a niece Of the
novelist, Charles Reade, has followed
in the footsteps of her uncle to the e1-
tent Of writing two novels, Ruby
and "Zerma."
Among the many decorations
by the Queen of Portugal is a medal
which was conferred on her several
years ago. when she threw herself into
the Tagus to save her children.
The British Medical Association has
at last admitted women as members.
The principle vas approved last year,
and this year the bylaw excluding
women was formally ezpunged.
Miss Lucille Rodney, who o a
wager by walking from her home in
Galveston. Texas, to the Worlds Fair,
counting ties all the way, made $500
by the way, selling her photographs.
Queen Victoria proposes to erect a
cairn in memory of the marriage of
the Duke of York. It will be in Scot
land near the one she erected in re-
membrance of the wedding of the
Prince Of Wales.
Grecian women possessed twenty-five
kinds of footgear, which may be
classed as those which cover all the
foot up to the ankle, and those which
simply tied on the top of the foot with
wide ribbons or straps.
A cooperative household, compris-
ing forty connected dwellings, is to
be established in Cleveland, Ohio.
The cooking and laundry are to be
done in one house, and the expense Is
to be divided among the families.
Mrs. Arundel olliver began service
in the London Postofhce as a tele.
graph operator, and has just retired
from the head of the Clearing House
department land q salary of $40, 000),
of which she has been chief twenty,
two years.
Five ladies have been sent as oficia.
commissioners Of education from Great
Britain to the Worlds Fair to examine
the American school exhibits and see
what features of our system of public
instruction can be adopted with profit
in England.
Miss Ella NJ. Grub, who has beer
elected Superintendent of the SCHOOL,
for Adams County, Illinois, is only
twenty-eight years OLD, end is the frs
woman elected to the post in thai
county, which is one Of the most pep
ulous in the State.
There are 10 women lawyers in the
United States, and eight of this mum
Der have earned the right to practice
before the Supreme Court. To &C
quire this it is necessary to have prac
ticed three years at the bar, without a
flaw in that career.
Mrs. Taylor, of Little Washington
Penn, is called among her neighbor
San artist in oils" She began by
making u few careful investments il
the Pennsylvania gold fields. She ha
sold these at an advance, bought other
and is now worth So, 900, 900.
Another of Queen Victoria's oldes
servants has lust died. This time it i
". H. Cover, who was ''yeoman o
the silver pantry" at Windsor Castle
Yeoman Cover has been in the Queen
service for o7er half @ century, ant
was much esteemed by his mistress.
The favorite handkerchiefs at pres
emit are of India linen almost as shee:
as. mist. They have hemstitchet
edges about half an inch wide, will
the initials or monograms embroidere'
in one corner. The lettering is deli
cate and the design is worked in out
line stitch.
A yoke having the square neck efec
! will shorten the apparent length o
your waist, as also will an empire belt
Slender arms are made to appea
larger, by covering with sleeves yer,
full at the top and sloping toward tn
arm, but not closely defining the arr
until the wrist is reached.
Empress Elizabeth. of Austria, late
iy built, at an enormous cost, a mag
nifcent marble villa at Corfu an
christened it "L'Achilleion." He
Majesty has made the following cod
ell to her will: "I wish to be interre
at Corfu, near the river, SO that tn
waves can continually break on n,
a tomb"
! mrs. Arthur Stannard ("Joh.
: Strange Winter') will in the fall max
her appearance in a new light. Ac
cording to the London Literary World
"she hae just concluded a novel of
theological bent, upon which she ha
bestowed an immense amount @
pains" The book will be issued i
two volumes.
A small Marie Antoinette ichu j
formed by three little gathers
a dounces in wheat mouseline de sole
This hchu is moveable: it is mounte