Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-03-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOVEN.
Berlin has q housewives union.
England has women engineers
Russfa has 700 lady physicians.

Russia has 700 lady physicians
Stylish women in Mexico never wear
bonnets.
Uncle Sans Treasury employs 1000
women.
Black-and-white effects ate to pre-
vail again in "a.
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 a fashion.
Mrs. Mary B. Day has Just been
elected State Librarian in Kentucky.
The Gear 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 80 many women'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.
A fee of $500 day is given the ply
sician to the Empress of Russia when
in attendance upon his august patient.
Boston statistics show that fifty
age we're 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 trife.
Mrs. F. c.. johnson, of Nebraska,
has made q fortune in apples. She is
one of the best authorities on pomol-
ogy in the West.
Ellen Terry, the actress, told a
reporter that the progressive woman
sis more in danger of wearing out
than rusting out"
Lady Griselda Ogilvie, youngest Sis
ter of the Earl of Airlie, has, like the
Duke of Sutherland's sister, become q
professional sick nurse.
Actresses are compelled to paint
their faces before they go on tho
stage, or tho 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 a "rainy-day club. !"
They advocate short skirts and other
dress reforms for muddy weather.
Never roll a glove. Pull it of
wrong side out, instead of by the fin.
gers. Smooth out the fingers care
fully and lay the gloves straight in a
box.
Mrs. Kenneth Mcleod, of Cross
we'll, Mich, has celebrated her cen
tennlal. She was twenty years a maid,
forty years a wife and forty years a
widow.
Women do not know it, but it is a
fact men hate the ''petticoats" on Dip
ner candles, which often burn and
give o scorched paper flavor to the
viands.
!, A figure that lacks breadth at the
shoulders is greatly improved by 9
shert, round waist, bib sleeves that dc
not fall below the elbows and wide
revers of lace or silk rufies.
Cotele, a 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.
Women are proverbially slouchy
about their shoes, a bit of the toilet
that men notice first. Heels should
be kept straight, buttons on, and solee
i, ven to the very last. Untidy shoes
. will spoil an elegant toilet. Rusty
, shoes are a disgrace.
Il Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson is one Of
: the leading authorities in Egyptian
archaeology in this country. She was
one of the judges at the Worlds Fair
and is now lecturinc in the East on
Greek art.
Moorish women have one custom
that commends itself to womankind il
enlightened lands. It is a point o,
honor among them neve to know thei,
: : own ages They have no birthday
celebrations.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the sharp Wal
street hnancier, goes about habitually
in Al attire that CO nd be matched any
where for twenty dollars. She is sh,
and looks queer, but is described BY
her landlady as a star boarder.
Mrs. J. Pierrepoint Morgan is cred.
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