Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-04-02
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England has women engineers.
Russia has 700 lady physicians.


women.
Black -and-white effects are to pre-
vail again in '94.
A woman's hair is said to weigh on
the average fourteen ounces.
Corsets have not been worn by Queen
Victoria in over twenty years.
About one-ninth of the professional
writer's in Great Britain are women
The wise woman is never the first to
follow nor the last to abandon fashion.
Mrs. Mary B. Day has just been
elected State Librarian in Kentucky.
The Czar is much interested in the
work of women physicians in Russia.
Chinese women are said to regard
the hairpin much as American women
do the ring.
Only six children have ever been
born in the White House and they
were all girls.
Boston has so many women's s clubs
that their notices fill three columns of
short paragraphs.
Mrs. Ju, wife of the Chinese Minis
ter at Washington, paints her cheeks
bright magenta.
Kansas State University has one
woman in the law department. She is
called a sister-in-law.
Christina Rosetti, the poet, is sixty
years old, and because of her health
goes very little in society.
The wife of President Dole, of
Hawaii, is a native of Maine, and for
merly taught school in that State.
A fee of $3.50 day is given the ply
sician to the Empress of Russia when
in attendance upon his august patient.
Boston statistics show that fifty
seven girls under seventeen years of
age were married in that city last year.
The Queen of Afghanistan has de-
cided to adopt European dress. Her
husbands pocketbook won't find this
Ameer trifie.
Mrs. F. G. johnson, of Nebraska,
has made fortune in apples. She is
one of the best authorities on pomol-
ogy in the West.
Ellen Terry, the actress, told n
reporter that the progressive woman
lis more in danger of wearing out
than rustinS out. "
Lady Griselda Ogilvie, youngest sis
ter of the Earl of Airlie, has, like the
Duke of Sutherland's sister, become a
professional sick nurse.
Actresses are compelled to paint
their faces before they go on the
stage, or the lights would give them
the appearance of ghosts.
Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poet,
does not hesitate to acknowledge that
she has consulted scores of people
"gifted with occult powers.
A number of Salem (Oregon) women
have formed "rainy-day club. "
They advocate short skirts and other
dress reforms for muddy weather.
Never roll a glove. Pull it off
wrong side out, instead Of by the fin
gers. Smooth out the fingers care
fully and lay the gloves straight in n
box.
Mrs. Kenneth Mcleod, of Cross
we'll, Mich, has celebrated her CEN
tennial. She was twenty years maid,
forty years wife and forty years a
widow
Women do not know it, but it is n
fact men hate the "petticoats'' on din
ner candles, which often burn and
give scorched paper flavor to the
viands.
A figure that lacks breadth at the
shoulders is greatly improved by a
short, round waist, bib sleeves that do
not fall below the elbows and wide
revers of lace or silk rutfles.
Cotele, heavy corded bengaline,
is used for capes and coats and for
The sleeves of velvet and plush coats
Sometimes it is used for the sleeves of
seal coats, but it seems out of place
there.
Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson is one of
the leading authorities in Egyptian
archaeology in this country. She was
,ne of the judges at the Worlds Fair
md is now lecturing in the East ON
Greek art
Moorish women have one custom
that commends itself to womankind in
enlightened lands. 1t is n point of
honor among them never to know their
own ages They have no birthday
celebrations.
Mrs Hetty Green, the sharp Wall
street financier, goes about habitually
in an attire that co lld be matched any
where for twenty dollars. She is shy
and looks queer, but is described by
ner landlady as a star boarder.
Women are proverbially slouchy
about their shoes, bit of the toilet
that men notice first. Heels should
be kept straight, buttons on, and soles
even, to the very last. Untidy shoes
will spoil an elegant toilet. Rusty
shoes are disgrace.
Mrs. j. Pierrepoint Morgan is cred
ted with the intention of erecting 1
monument over the unmarked grave
Of brave Molly Pitcher, of revolution
ary celebrity, which lies near Wes