Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-05
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The favorite daughter of the late
Professor Helmholtz, of Berlin, is the
wife of the eminent DIR. Won Siemens.
Mrs. G. 2. Huntington has the cost
liest ruby in this country, and Mrs.
Marshall Roberts Vivian the best col
lection of pearls.
Miss Mary E. Wilkins, the New
England author, says: "They call me
u fad, as though | were new plaid
gown or Queen Anne house"
Isabella H., of Spain, has now been
in exile for twenty four years, her
long suffering subjects having sent her
into enforced retirement in 1870.
A Kings Daughters circle in San
Francisco is composed of eight Chi
nese women, two Japanese, two Syri-
ans and their two American teachers.
Suit has been entered against Bos-
ton architect who built house and
forgot to put any closets in it. The
prime mover in the legal action is u
woman.
The clerks OF the Bank of England
are holding angry meetings Of protest
| against the recent admission into the
service of the bank OF two patches of
women clerks.
The lovely limp, willy-wally pose is
no longer in great demand in these
athletic days, when every girl rides,
drives and fences, and disports herself
like young Amazon.
Miss Annie Thomson Nettleton has
resigned her position in Vassar COLLEGE
to become presiding officer of GuIlford
Cottage at the Woman's College of the
Western Reserve University.
By n recent ordinance of the Scot
tish University Commission the uni
versltles are empowered to throw open
to women such bursaries, Scholarships
and fellowships as they may see fit.
The Empress of Austria is n great
linquist. Her latest study is Greek,
which she now speaks and writes
iuently, although six years ago she
was ignorant even of the alphabet of
that language.
Miss Catherine Power, of jackson.
Miss, is President of the Mississippi
Woman's Press Club. She is u daugh-
ter of Colonel j. l.. Power, of the
Clarion Ledger, and is associated with
him in his business.
Mrs Myra Gaddings, of LIVERPOOL.
/ England, has invented reversible
! bonnet. 1t is so constructed that it
can be changed in two minutes from n
Gainsborough harins brim to dainty
toque or widows cap.
The Bennett rose is Mrs. Alfred
Stevens's favorite flower, apropos to
which blossom, when it was intro.
duced in this country, $10,O 900 was
paid for it, the highest price ever
known in the flower trade.
In New York there are more than
score OF trained janitresses" who are
able to command $400 year and nd
ward. The first woman ianitor began
her work about two years ago. She
took care of an apartment house.
Russia's Cross of st. George is oiven
only Tor bravery on the field of battle.
but the Order has one woman mem
Der, the ex-Queen of Naples, who won
it by her gallant defense of Gaeta, the
last stronghold of the Bourbons in
Italy
Made birds will outsell the natural
models. A pair OF wings or tail and
head only pre-suppose the body.
These are IN many cases plucked from
the feathers OF chickens, and can be
worn even by member of the Audu-
bon Society.
The physician in charge of the
Woman's Hospital in 500 Chow. China.
is DR.. Anne Walter, Iississipni
woman. There is no country on earth
now where the plucky American
woman iR not doing missionary work
of some kind.
Mrs. Green, the nurse who had been
attended the infant Prince, lately re.
ceived from Queen Victoria n
ruby broche; from the Duke and
Duchess diamond and sapphire one,
and from the Duke alone gold one
containing lock of the baby's hair
Abdul Aziz, the young Sultan of
Morocco, does nothing without con-
sulting his mother, who is u woman of
tact and talent. After the discovery
of the recent conspiracy at Fez she
persuaded him to spare tine lives of
the culprits of lower rank and to par
don his brother, who was involved
The bang of old has almost disap.
peared, the nearest approach to it be-
ing half-lnch fluffy fringe worn
straight across the forehead by the
girl whose brow is so expansive that
she dare not completely uncover it,
aud who adopts this fashion as a
sort of compromise. But this bang is
SO light that it scarcely makes any
difference whether it is curled or not.
Miss Maury, relative of the we'll
known physicist Maury, has remained
in Cambridge during the summer to
finish piece of original research
work in Harvard observatory in con.
nection with spectrum analysis of the
starlight, subject in which she is
greatly interested. She left Cam.
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