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er caper.
Girton England College girls have
a bicycle club.
Mrs. Kate Myrick has been appoint
ed river observer at Girard, La.
There are 200 more women than
men in the District of Columbia.
Miss Laura Creighton has been re-
appointed State Librarian in Iowa.
The plain swivel silks in light tints
are used for lining diaphanous toilets.
Snowflake crepon has a very attrac-
tive sound for a midsummer fabric, as
it is.
Miss Balfour, sister OF the English
Conservative leader, is now travelling
in Africa.
In Victoria, women have been sub
stituted for men mt no fewer than 200
railway station.
The Chicago Woman's Club has ad-
ded woman suffrage section to its
other departments
There are now 797 prisoners in the
Kansas State Prison, and of that num-
ber fourteen are women.
Miss Willard and Lady Henry Som
erset are two celebrities in the Cat
skills, of New York, this season.
Many ladies find the ready made
ruffles quite too expensive, and there
fore buy taffeta silk and make their
own.
A young lady named johnson is
sixth wrangler in to senior mathe-
matical class at Cambridge University,
England.
OF the 100 persons who patronized
a fortune-teller in Chicago during the
progress of the Worlds Fair 920 were
women.
In England and Ireland women
writer's number $50, while the mum.
Der of men engaged in this kind of
work is Oil.
Royalties have, as body, defective
eyesight. Princess Maud, OF Wales,
is the only royal lady who wears .
single eyeglass.
Husband and wife as law partners
is something unknown in Great Brit.
ain. There are no less than twenty
one such firms in the United States.
The grandmother of the German
Kaiser was, in early life, a musician
of marked ability, and composed
many marches for the Prussian army.
The Association for the Advance.
ment of Women will hold its next an.
nual meeting in Atlanta, Ga, with the
supplementary congress at Tuskegee.
There is demand for the old fash.
ioned taffeta ribbon of our foremoth.
ers. 1t is made in three or four inch
widths, and is used for skirt ruchings.
English papers say that Mrs. Hum.
phrey Ward has made $50, 900 from
"David Grieve," $50, 900 from "Mar.
celia" and $4,000 from "Robert
Elsmere."
One of the ways of telling whether
the temperature is rising it to watch
a girls front hair. When 1t begins
to lose its curl and grow straight it is
sure sign of change of temperature.
Very lovely are The open fronted
Partisan tea gowns in Directoire style,
made of fowered taffeta or China silk,
and worn over petticoats and blouse
vests of white or yellow guipure lace.
Miss Mary Garrett of Baltimore,
Nd, has founded European fellow
ship scholarship, of value Of $500
year, and five graduate scholarships,
worth 5000 year, at Bryn Mawr
College, Pennsylvania.
The most heavily insured woman in
the United States is the widow of SEN
ator Hearst, or California. The poll
cies on her life aggregate $500, 600.
Mrs. E. B. Crocker, of Elmira, N. Y,
probably comes next with $50, 900.
Mrs. Henry Irving is an Irish.
woman, whose maiden name, O'Calla.
han, effectually proves it. She lives
very quietly in London with her two
sons on the $5000a year which her dis.
tinguished actor husband allows her.
An extreme style of the sailor hat
shows brim of mottled brown and
white patent leather, and o white
crown of the same shiny material.
This mode is trihe too outre to COM
mend itself to women of fastidious
tastes. =,
Miss Herbert. daughter of Secretary
Herbert, has been selected by the
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association as
Vice-Regent for the State Of Alabama,
which position was made vacant sever
al years ago by the death of her
mother.
Mrs. William Waldorf Astor wore at
the recent drawing room in London
the historic diamond coroDet comb, OF
which she has lately become possessed.
It is the one that Louis XIV. gave to
Nine. de Montspan, and our wealthy
countrywoman, it is said, paid $780,.
900 for it.
1t is said there are 2133 women
writer's in France. When this was re-
peated to the editor of New York
magazine he said he thought France
was in luck; that there were not less
than two millions in the United