The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1894-06-02
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Hoop skirts first appearei in I5s

lels, worth S5OO each.
The Duchess OF Bedford is studyinp
oil the necessary subjects to qualify
as sanitary inspector.
A Scotch girl, twenty years OF age,
has carried off the honors of the Uni
yersity of London, against 1900 male
attendants.
DIR. Emily A. Bruce declares that
more women die in England through
improper dressing than from all other
causes together.
1t is no unworthy aim for woman to
study to adjust her ''crown of glory"
to her individual needs, irrespective of
prevailing fashions.
The widow of DR.. d. Hayes Agnew,
of Philadelphia, has given $25, 600 to
Tho University Hospital of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
Queen Victoria keeps seventy dogs
Mt Windsor. Marco, an Italian Spitz,
Is Her Majesty's favorite.
A woman has been made church
warden in England. She is the
Dowagcr Lady Hrndlip, and her parish
is Hadsor, near Droitwich.
Miss Harriet Adams has graduated
from The State Medical College in
Kansas with first honors for the best
commencement examination.
A small head is one Of the most
beautiful of personal endowments,
and the hair should never be arranged
to increase it's apparent bulk.
Mrs Terry, of Rome, Italy, the
mother Of J.. Marion Crawford, tho
novelist, is said to be the oldest Ameri-
can resident of the Eternal City.
Forget. -nots are quite the vogue.
Golden hairc; maidens of Gotham wear
huge bunches pinned at their corsage.
The stems are tied by long, pale blus
ribbons.
Miss Ellen Hayes, professor OF mathe.
matlcs at Wellesley College, has re.
Gently revised her text book in higher
algebra. and new edition is about to
be issued.
Mrs nacksy, the Silver Kings wife,
has perhaps the finest Jewels in the
world. She has a sapphire worth
$50. 600 aud n pair OF solitaries valued
at St25, 900.
Among Princess Maud of Wales
museum of ivory are two tusks of wild
boars shot by the Gar of Russia, and
trophies OF the chase contribute by
her athcr and brothers
Jackets of the latest cut are shorter
and not quite so full in the skirt
Black IL the most useful color, but
fawn coat with black moire vest can
be worn over almost any dress.
A feature Of some of the modern
English weddings is the child brides
maid, who is sometimes actually deco.
rated with diamonds, sprinkled with
perfumes. and horrible to say, pow.
dered aud painted.
Nine. Schliemanp, the widow OF the
archseologist, Is personally y superin-
tending the excavations now in prog
ress on the site of Troy. Thst she
should do this was one of her hus.
bands last wishes.
Miss Tompkins, of Kentucky, n
clever young woman who has teen
purchasing agent for the Supreme
Court, has been appointed assistant
marsha! of the court. The young
woman is under thirty.
The Queen of England always wears
on one wrist n bracelet in which is a
miniature of the late Prince Consort.
On the other wrist she wears as con-
stautly "a bracelet with the miniature
of her latest great tgrandchild.
Mrs. Lease, the Kansas agitator,
told Detroit reporter that she
believed she was a woman of destiny,
and, she added, ''as a woman Of des.
tiny feel that wiz one day meet a
violent and bloody death for my opin.
ions.
On the show case outside of a "mil.
lluery parlor' on West 125th street,
New York. is this notice: "Milliners
are composers. Bonuets are rhythmic,
symphonic, harmonious or melodiou.
as the composer may dictate. Let u,
compose you one on trial"
Mrs. Allen II. Gardner tells the
Women's Press Club, of New York,
that the time has gone by for regard
ing women as an annex OF male hu.
manity. But an occasional reference
neSation plan hourishing in undimin
ished popularity.
Unity Church, Cleveland, Ohio, i,
probably the only church in the world
that has aS pastors two women. They
are Rev. Marion Murdoch and Rev.
Florence Buck. They are highly edu-
Gated women, having finished their
education at Oxford Uuiversity.
Englsui. They are co-pastors to the
church, AMI have been TsmsskshlY
successful
Notable jewel robberIes in England
have so frightened number of women
in society possessing magnificent Jewels
that they won't travel with them any
longer. When they begin a course OF
country house visits they leave their
| Jewels at the bankers and tske with
shem im.tNtIons 50 beautifully ma Ia
that only experts could know they ar,
not real
When the late Jane Austin va.
buried, Mt Moupt Auburn Cemetery,