Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-03-26
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The Czar of Russia's typewriter is
his wife.
Sixty eight Mary Smiths are students
this year in Smith College, New York.
The Duchess of York has set up a
swing for the amusement of her guests
in wet weather.
The Queen of Italy is bringing out a
volume of folk lore, the result of her
summer holiday.
1t is said that fencing is to be the
fashionable exercise for ladies this
season in London.
Within year Eleanor E. Greatorex
has become one of the best-known of
American illustrators.
The English Queens favorite wall
paper has bright blue ground
sprinkled with white stars
Miss Clay, of Lexington, Ky, will
be candidate for the office of City
School Superintendent of that city.
1t is point of honor that Moorish
women never know their own ages.
They have no birthday celebrations.
Miss Green, young lady from
Cardiganshire, is the present English
governess to the Emperor of Ger
many's children.
Ornithologists are quoted ms esti.
mating the number of birds annually
sacrificed to the varity of the women
of America" at 5000, 900.
Miss Herbert, the daughter of the
Secretary of the Navy, has character
istic mode of dressing, and is said to
design most of her own gowns
Katherine Lee Bates, Professor of
English literature at Wellesley Col
lege, has lately brought out volume
on "rhe Early English Drama. "
Mrs John Clay, the widow of a
Kentucky stock breeder, left direc'
tions in her will that each superanu
ated animal on her stock farm should
be cared for ut yearly expense oi
$50 to the estate.
Lady Marjorie Gordon, daughter ol
the Earl of Aberdeen, is three years
old, and greatly resembles her charm.
ing mother in appearance. She is the
editor of "Wee Willie Wrinkle" o
paper for children.
The youngest Queen Consort oI
Europe, the Queen of Portugal, was
born at Twickenham in England. She
was the favorite child of the Comte de
Paris, and is brave and graceful
horsewoman. She has two little sons.
Women organizations are becoming
go numerous and popular in New
York City that "I saw you at the club
the other day is II remark frequently
to be heard among women as they
meet in the shops and ON the streets.
One of the greatest authorities on
pomology i'll the West is Mrs. F. G.
johnson, of Hastings, Neb. She is de
scribed as every charming in man
ners and stylish in figure. She is q
fascinating talker, and has made a
fortune raising apples.
The widow of Frederick l.. Ames
has presented to the Boston Museum
of Fine Arts, in memory of her hus-
band, two life-size portraits by Rem.
brandt valued ut $40, 900 each One
is portrait of Dir. Tulpp, dated 1884,
and the other OF his wife bears the
same date.
Mrs. John Sherwood, of New York
City, has undertaken crusade in be-
half of servant girls. Within ten
days, she says, she succeeded in per
suading eighteen shop girls to take
positions as domestics in the country.
She then adds, "What could one hun.
dred women accomplish in twenty
days."
Next to Mrs Clevelands fondness
for quaint, old things comes her fond
ness for clocks, which is fully graft
fed, as more than twenty hands 'me
ones and many small ones came as
wedding gifts. The clocks are i'll every
room, and are placed so that they har-
monize with the other furnishings.
Boston boasts of two young women
who are composers Miss Helen Hood
and Miss Margaret Lang. The Apollo
Club, one of Boston's musical societies,
has set the seal of its high approval
upon the compositions of these young
women, and musicians praise theil
work So far they have both confined
themselves to song writing.
The first woman to be appointed up
on the Illinois State Board of Chari-
ties is Miss Lathrop. In the course
of her visits to charitable institutions,
fully or partially supported by the
| State. she has found many abuses and
has appealed to the Women's Clubs OF
Chicago and other cities to aid her,
through their individual members, in
the work of discovering and correct
ing defects OF managements.
Miss Catherine Hogan recently
passed the second highest examination
in class of fifty law students in
Brooklyn, and will open law officein
New York, where she hopes to work up
a practice among women who need as
sistance in managing their property.