Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-07-24
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tOOHle Ol UnB women DlCyCl1btb OF
France ride in male attire.
''Colloquium" is the name of
woman's debating club in Brooklyn,
Ny.
The Greensboro IN. o. Female Col
lege graduates wear gowns Of their own
making this year.
The President of the Mount Pleasant
(Texas) National Bank is woman
Mrs. Annie Moore.
Miss Eleanor Calhoun, grandniecs
of John G. Calhoun, is making some
stir as an actress in Paris.
Mark Twain's eldest daughter, Miss
Clara Clemens, not yet twenty, has
written an allegorical play.
A Vermont Judge has decided that
when lady discards lover she must
return the engagement ring.
The Academy of Science at Munich
has received its first woman member
the Princess Theresa, of Bavaria.
Mrs. L. P. Hunt, of Mankato, Mimi,
has collected and classified more than
800 varieties of the wild flowers of the
State.
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, of New York,
wears decoration-gold and precious
stones-presentel to her by the Sultan
of Turkey.
| The Austrian ArcEduchess Stephanie,
it is said, does not like to appear on
state occasions attended by less than
ten pages.
The up-to-daue kiss for young ladies'.
according to feminine authority, is
to lay the left cheeks together and kiss
out into vacancy.
A female quartet in Windham, Me-,
is called "Gracemaudanem," from the
names of the members, Grace, Maud,
Anna and Emma.
Miss Fawcett, the young English
woman of recent "above-the-senior
wrangler" fame, has adopted the pro-
fession of electrical engineer.
Two Hebrew young ladies, Miss
Adele Ellis and Miss Flora Rosenhain,
have passed the final examination for
the B. b. degree of the University q
Melbourne.
After a recent Australian wedding the
guests showered the happy pair with
rose petals until the bride was literally
covered with the fragrant leaves as she
sat in the carriage.
Mrs. Adlai Stevenson is described as
a petite, fragile-looking woman of cul-
tured mind. She was reared in lii ..
erary atmosphere, being the daugl >
ter of college President.
Miss Nina Fleming, of the Harvard
College Observatory, is rapidly assum-
ing the rank as an astronomer that was
held by the late Miss Maria Mitchell
at Vassar. Miss Fleming is Scotch
woman.
Princess Maria, of Parma, is not pretty,
even for a royal bride. She has long,
large countenance, disfigured by very
long and substantial nose, and it is un-
| gallantly said that her face looks like
that of horse.
Miss Florence Bryan, a young Eng
lish woman, has abandoned Christian
ity and married native official of In
dia. She was married according to the
Sikh rites, and is now member of the
Sikh religious community.
The "tailor girl" is no longer thu
ideal of fashion. In spite of the con
venience and elegance of the tailo,
gown, the more ornate French street
dresses are preferred by the "smary
set," who decide the fashions for the
millions.
Some years ago it was considered o
mark of good breeding for lady,
while using knife, fork or spoon, to
extend the little finger. Time has
evidence of extreme affectation to do it
nowadays
Felix, the celebrated Partisan Dress
maker, has, it is asserted, always con-
demned crinoline in any shape. When
the so-called dress improvers were ex-
tensively worn, both Felix and Worth
absolutely forbade the use of the steel
springs in the skirts which they sent
out.
Mrs. Anna g. Fall, young and
comely lawyer of Maiden, Mass, who
has made name in her profession,
has been appointed Special Commits
sioner of the Commonwealth for life by
the Governor. She can do all that a
male commissioner can do, except per-
form marriage ceremonies and read the
riot act.
Mrs. Cleveland was gowned very
handsomely when she received the
Duchess of veragua at the White House.
She wore Marie Antoinette black Co.
telie silk affair, ruffled with lace and jet
and tied with ribbons. She has very
graceful neck and shoulders, and she
generally wears her dresses semi-de-
collete.
Everywhere in her ira, ols the Prin-
cess of Wales excites the wonder and
admiration of the people on account of
her youthfulness in figure and face.
Not infrequently the slender woman in
the simple black skirt just clearing the
ground, the jaunty coat and blouse
and sailor hat, the Princess is mistaken
for her own daughter.