Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-29
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California has women tramps.

said to be coming sensation in
Europe.
During the past thirteen years the
Patent Office has granted $500 patents
to women.
There are entire apartment houses
in New York monopolized by self-sup-
porting bachelor girls.
Nine. Cortessio, of Key West, Fla,
who is not yet forty years of age, is o
great great grandmother.
A maid of honor to Queen Victoria
receives $500 year and has thirteen
weeks of attendance at court.
Brocades in pompadour effect are
extremely pretty and bid fair to retain
their popularity during the winter and
spring.
A Denmark old maids insurance
company pays regular weekly "bene-
fits" to spinsters of forty years and
upwards.
The Queen of Greece is president of
n sisterhood devoted to the retorma-
tion OF criminals, and she personally
visits prisoners.
Five hundred and two of the 622
students at Wellesley College have
put themselves on record as favorlng
woman's suffrage.
Chinese women devote very little
suCer1uous time to hair dressing.
Their tresses are arranged once a
month, and they sleep with their heads
in boxes.
Cream -colored crepe de Chine com.
bined with fuchsia-red velvet forms
very pretty theatre waist, and another
dainty creation is pink crepon made
up with black velvet and jetted bands.
The women inclined to embonpoint
have been overlooked, and to her re-
lief comes the stylish pelisse, dignifed
princess and redingote, which i'm
part SO much slenderness to the figure.
Marie janet, the poor peasant girl
who founded the order of the Little
Sisters of the Poor, died recently in
Brittany at the age of seventy-four.
The order has now 253 houses, shelter
ing 1000 Sisters.
Miss Elizabeth Banks. who was
once private secretary to the British
Minister of Peru, is going to try to
persuade the woman wage Garner that
domestic service is preferable to shop
and factory work.
The football game found more en-
thusiastic champions in the regular
young ladies' boarding schools than in
other schools and colleges where the
students are engrossed in their work
for academic degrees.
Good taste and sense seem evident
this season. The bonnets are small,
compact and neat The hats are mod
crate as to brim, small in crown and
curving gracefully to suit the form
and pose of the head.
Bonnets this winter are diminutive
affairs in1eed, and elderly women who
seek in vain for a genuine protection
for the head are obliged to take up
with the Empire round hats and have
strings added to give them bonnet
effect
Miss Heldegard Werner is the latest
musician to appear before Queen Vic
toria. She is Swede who studied the
pianoforte at Stockholm and the
violin in Paris. She is also news
paper woman, writes musical news for
several publications and wears n gold
medal conferred on her by King Oscar
new school of medicine for women
has been started at st. Peterburg, Rus
sia, to which the state contributes
5000 rubies annually. The course
at the school lasts four years, but
students are expected to work from
one to three years rs well in hospitals
for women and children before pre-
senting themselves for the final exam
ination.
The square, heavy wedding ring is n
thing of the past, and a slender oval,
with as little alloy in the gold MS is
consistent with good wearing quality,
is now chosen, and it is better taste as
well as more comfortable than the
heavy circlet, which spreads the
fingers apart and perceptibly weighs
the hand.
The Princess of Wales, who is ex-
tremely fond of her garden at
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with which she takes the greatest in
terest, has ordered number of apple
trees from Denmark for the purpose
of having them tried in England. The
name of the sort in question is the
"Trasteen, and is considered the
finest apple in the world.
Two kinds of stitching are used on
the cloth hats, the heavy cord stitch
ing running around the crown OF brim,
and the lighter stitching following err
ratio alI-over designs The latter is
shown in a new Alpine with q very
high and very peaked crown, the
former on the wide, rolled brim of the
cloth Tam o. Shanter, AMI on the large
squared of, dented crown of walking
hat that is q modification of both
Alpine and derby.
me Coliseum.
According 10 expert calculations
the Coliseum of Rome seated 1000