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the most able women in English jour
nalism.
1t has become current among fash
ionable critics to say "she dresses very
intelligently."
The number of women among the
immigrants arriving at New York in
1892 is 124, $50.
Anna Louise Cary, Nine. Nordica
and Nine. Eames, all great singers,
are all natives of Maine.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor's fine new
house on Upper Fifth avenue, New
York City, is being built of white soap
stone.
After forty-three years occupancy
of the editorial chair of an English
periodical Charlotte M. Young has
been retired.
Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, wife oil
the poet, is bending all her energies at
this time toward the development OF
the kindergarten school system.
Lady Griselda Ogilvie, sister of the
Earl of Airlie, is studying to be o
nurse. She is at present probationer
in the Children's Hospital, in Edin'
burgh.
Following the example of George
Eliot, George Sand and George Flem-
ing, Mrs. Clairmonte, who is coming
into prominence as novelist, calls
herself George Egerton.
There's bold schoolma' m in North
Waldoboro, Me. The big boys locked
her out of the school house one day,
but she broke the door down, and bus
mess was continued at the old stand.
The Portia Law Club has been or
ganized in San Francisco, Cal. Only
women are to be members. The OBJ
ject of the club is to aid women in
acquiring more general knowledge
of law.
The Princesses Maud and Victoria
of Wales gave their mother piano on
her recent birthday. 1t had been used
by Paderewski when he crossed the
ocean on the Teutonic, and was recon-
mended by Signor Tosti.
One of the prettiest women in Lon
don society is said to plunge towel
in very hot water, wiring it out and
leave it on her face for half an hour
every night before going to bed in
stead of washing, and this lady has no
wrinkles
Queen Victoria is great lover of
animals. 1t is said she has fifty five
dogs of all sizes, breeds and colors in
her palace. They are housed and fed
with great care, properly groomed,
and in every way better cared for than
a good many of her subjects.
Miss Ella Weed, who died recently
in New York, was one of the first
women in this country to interest her
self in the higher education of women.
She was born in Newburg, n. Y, in
1854, and was graduated from Vassar
College with honors in 1878.
Grant Allen dissents energetically
from Sir Frederick Boyle's dictum
that English women are not as hand
youngster. His gallant contention is
that the girls of the present time
especially the middle-class girls-are
the comeliest ever seen on the foggy
little island.
Miss Laura Yorke Stevenson has toe
eputa tion of being Philadelphia
greatest woman scholar. She is the
curator of the Archaeological and
Palaeontologica Museum of the Uni.
versity of Pennsylvania, and to her
energetic labors is due the fact that
these museums take their high rank in
the museums of the world
Beautiful house dresses are made
this winter of peacock blue, amber,
crimson, silver, blue or old rose India
cashmere, trimmed in some cases with
black chantilly insertion and edging,
in others with white silk braiding, and
again with bisc or ecru lace, elaborate
Persian gimps or Russian galloons the
color of the gown, with bronze and
gold glints through the pattern.
Miss Agnes Murphy is an enterpris-
ing young woman. She is the editor
of the Melbourne Punch, is II member
of all the leading women's clubs of that
city, aud writes authortatively on
Victoria aud Its Resources. She
calmly says that she expects to be
quite independent, financially, by the
time she is thirty, when she intends TO
take up literary work ia London.
Miss Doroths Klumpke, the Cali
fornia girl who has attracted much at
tention IN Paris recently for her work
in astronomical research, has been
made Doctor of Mathematics by the
University of the Sorbonne, after pass.
iug an excellent examination. This IL
the first time this degree has been con.
ferred npon woman va France, Mis'
kumpke Is ia her twenty eighth year.
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