The Opelousas courier., 1894-05-19
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

California has many women farmers.
The Empress of Austria has a woman
physician in her suite.
Manuela Palido, of Madrid, is the
only lawyer in Spain.
The Chicago Athletic Club has de-
cided to open it's doors to ladies c
a month.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell is writ
ing a biography of her famous mother
'Lucy Stone"
There is not a female Arab in Algiers
who can read, it is said. The Gospel
is spoken to them.
Nine. Henriette Ronner has become
famous as the most natural painter OF
| cats and kittens in Paris.
Dental inspection has been intro
duced into the public schools OF De-
troit, Mich, by a woman.
Queen Marguerite of Italy and the
Empress of Russia are probably the
best dressed royal women n Europe.
The veil used by Turkish ladies is no
longer what it was. It's transparency
admits of pretty face being outlined.
In some of the countries of Southern
Europe a girl is regarded as of mar
| ~riageable age when she is twelve years
| old.
A Boston lady has invented a spoon
for measuring medicine, by which q
| dose can be administered without
splitting.
A Mrs. Bush, who died in England
recently, was a direct descendant, in
the eighth generation, of Oliver
Cromwell.
There are fifteen thousand working
women in Albany, N. Y, out of a
total population of n hundred thou
sand souls.
Mrs. Amelia E. Barr has taken the
place formerly occupied by Mrs.
Burnett as the best paid female author
in America.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas politician,
has been made a member of the Inter-
national Peace Society of Berne,
Switzerland.
Mrs. Martha J. Coston, the inventor
of the signals for the use of ships by
night at sea, is living at an advanced
age in Washington.
A woman's c~orsets, worn with only
the average degree of tightnesss,, exert
a pressure of forty pounds on the o.
gans they compress.
Mrs. Harriet Strong, of California,
raised no less than 1900, 900 plumes
of pampas grass last year, and sold
them all for decorations.
DR.. Mary Glenton, who is a gradu-
ate of the Woman's Medical College
Of Chicago, has been appointed mis-
sionary at Anvik, Alaska.
Mrs. s. V. White, wife of the bank
er, is President of the Brooklyn Home
for Consumptives, a noble philanthro-
Ply, absolutely unsectarian.
When Mrs. Edward Cooper, Of New
York, gives a dinner party for the
regulation finger bows are substituted
cut glass globes containing rosewater.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, the New
York heiress, was to s'come out" this
year, but on account of the death Of
her brother her debut has been post
poned.
Queen Victoria has already reached
and passed the biblical limit of mans
age; size is in the seventy-fourth year
year of her age and the fifty-sixth year
of her reign.
Mrs. Henry E.. Abbey, wife of the
great manager, possesses the largest
collection of photographed of celebrities
with autograph inscription to be found
in this country.
The handsomest thing said recently
of the American woman is by Mrs. Or
mission Chant: "Her good humor IN
der difficulties is surpassed by nothing
[ have ever seen."
Mrs. Mary Cowden-C Clarke, compiler
of the ''Shakesperean Concordance"
is living in Italy. She is eighty-fve
years cid, and was lately described as
a prosperous, gentle woman"
A tool for killing noxious weeds in
a garden has been invented by Mrs.
Grafton Ross, an English woman The
implement is a hollow piercer, through
which poison is conveyed to the root
of the weed.
Miss Charlotte Robinson, of Lon
don, who bears the title of Decorator
to the Queen, designed and applied
the decorations of the ceilings and
panels in the cabins of the steamships
Lucania and Campania.
It is said that when Mrs. Peter
Cooper first went to housekeeping
every piece Of her furniture wal made
by her husband with his own hands.
Even the bedroom and parlor s'sets'
were the handiwork of her ingenious
husband.
Nellie Dean, organist, Charlestown,
Mass, has been awarded a gold medal
for the most finished rendering of
three classical compositions selected
by the director of the New England
Conservatory, Boston. There were
three competitors. Miss Dean played
from memory.
British lady artists are fairly nu.
merous in Paris, now that so many
English girls go over to study in
French studios. So they have formed
an Association of British Women Ar.
tists," and opened their first exhibi.
ton with great success. The exlibi.
ton is under Lady Duferin's patron
age, and musters over seventy works.