Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-06-14
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fuently.
The Gar 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
volume of folk lore, the result of her
summer holiday.
1t is said that fencing is to be tho
fashionable exercise for ladies this
season in London.
Within year Eleanor E. Greitorex
has become one of the best-known of
American illustrators.
The English Queens favorito wall
paper has bright blue ground
sprinkled with white stars.
Miss Clay, of Lexington, Ky, will
be n 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 vapity 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 Gt Wellesley Col
lege, has lately brought out volume
on "The Early English Drama.
Mrs John Clay, the widow of
Kentucky stock breeder, left direc'
tions in her will that each superanu
ated animal on her stock farm should
be cared for Mt yearly expense ol
$50 to the estate.
Lady Marjorie Gordon, daughter OF
the Earl of Aberdeen, is three years
old, and greatly resembles her charm
ing mother in appearance. She is the
editor of "Wee Willie Winkle,"
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 aud graceful
horsewoman. She has two little sons.
Women organizations are becoming
go numerous and popular in New
York City that 81 saw you at the club
the other day" is n remark frequently
| to be heard among women us they
meet in the shops and on the streets.
One of the greatest authorities on
pomology in the West is Mrs. j. 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 Mt $1,000 each. One
is portrait of Dr. Tulpp, dated 1884,
and the other OF his wife bears tho
same date.
Mrs. John Sherwood, of New York
City, has undertaken II 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 i'll twenty
days?"
Next to Mrs. Cleveland's fondness
for quaint, old things comes her fond
ness for clocks, which is fully graft
fed, as more than twenty hands ma
ones and many small ones came as
wedding gifts. The clocks are in every
room, and are placed 50 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. Iu 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 Womens Clubs of
Chicago and other cities to aid her,
through theii 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 a law Office in
New York, where she hopes to work up
practice among women who need as
sistance in manaoInp their propertv