Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-08-13
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European women began to use rib
bons in the days of the Crusaders.
There are said to be eight ordained
women in the Baptist denomination.
Sassafras oil is excellent for darken-
ing the hair. 1t should be applied
with small brush.
The number of widows in the United
States is nearly three times rs great as
the number of widowers.
The first Woman's Right Convention
held in the United States convened at
Seneca Falls, n. Y, on July 10, 1S4S.
julia Ward Howe received only S5
for her famous "3attle Hymn of tho
Republic. 1t was first printed in the
Atlantic Monthly.
Miss Gertrude 3. Mawson, one of
the well-known family of that name in
Philadelphia, has embarked in the life
insurance business.
Ellen Terry, the actress, says tho
is for her to be constantly busy at
work whlcn she loves.
The will of the late Julia Bullock,
of Providence, bequeaths $40, 900 to
charitable, educational and religious
institutions in Rhode Island.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New
York, has just contracted topay Caro-
lus Duran $40, 900 for a portrait, with
the express stipulation that he is not
to show it at the French Salon.
Mrs. Frances Hodsson-Burnett, the
author, is deeply interested and an
active worker in a London charity
that furnishes comfort and amusement
for little children who are incurable
invalids.
The wife OF Thomas Hardy, the
novelist, is n woman of considerable
artistic ability, and has ornamented
one of the rooms of their Dorchester
home with frieze illustrating her
husbands stories.
Short, plump women should not
wear many bands of trimming round
their skirts, rs they tend to Increase
the look of width and size. Bands of
lace insertion round the skirt are
more and more coming into favor.
London's "new beauty" Lady Moyra
Beauclerk, is described rs an exquisite.
ly pretty blonde girl, with an inno-
cent expression and beautiful eyes.
who laughed openly at the peculiarly
expressed admiration she elected,
Mrs. Wilson Sprogel, of Mott City,
MINI, is said to be one of the most
beautiful women in the Northwest,
She was the widow of a German officer
before she married millionaire lum-
herman old enough to be her father.
Never pull OF your gloves by the
finger tips, but by the wrists, turning
them thus inside ont; let them air for
few minutes before turning them
again, and do not roll them into a
wad; let them lie at full length in the
glove box.
Mrs. Ballington Booth is very
beautiful woman, even in Salvation
dress attire. What she would be in
an evening dress is question her
friends never tire of propounding, but
with little hope of ever witnessing the
much desired picture.
Mrs. S. B. Capron, who has for five
years been Superintendent of the
Woman's Department in tho Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago. has resigned
her position on account of advancing
years. Mrs. Capron spent twenty-five
years of her life in India.
Has anyone seen it, this engaged
MANTLE" which the London papers
gravely announce "to be novelty in
America2" 1t is worn, it seems, by
young fancees as a more outward sign
Of their contemplation of matrimony
than the engagement ring.
Miss Kate johnson, of Hamilton,
No., got angry because a man said no
woman could drive nail straight.
She grabbed hammer, and proved
him to be prevaricator by pounding
ten nails into one square inch of a
block of wood within thirty seconds.
Married women are being depased
Srom service us teachers in the public
schools of the Australian colony OF
Victoria. Under new law when a
woman marries she must resign her
place. The main design of the change
is to give advantage to single women.
Mrs. Kendall, the English actress,
who is justly noted for her lovely
complexion, gives the following as
her beauty formula: Ten hours
sleep every night; four-mile walk
every day; vigorous rubbing in cold
water; brown bread; no sweets and
no coffee.
Miss Cora Dow, of Cincinnati, is the
owner Of three drug stores successfully
operated in that city, She is a grad.
uate of the department of pharmacy
of the Cincinnati University. She
employs six registered pharmacists and
four assistants, visits each store every
day and supervises every detail.
One of the students ut Radcliffe
College, Cambridge, Mass, is Miss
Shids Mori, n Japanese girl. Her
father is a wealthy banker of Yana
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