Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-08-10
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Green denim is a new fabric.
Ivy is much in vogue this year.
Small drop earrings are again to be
worn.
The use of laces this season is I'M
limited.
A silk dust cloak imported from
Paris has full collarette or deep lace.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the Virginia
author, is planning trip to the Holy
Land.
Mrs. Astor, the rich American wo-
man, who now lives in England, has
$50, 900 dinner set.
Silk waists have, in all shades and
colors never before been SO partIcu-
Iarly successful as this year.
A sister of Thomas Carlyle is living
in Toronto, Canada, the widow of q
train dispatcher named Manning.
"Health, recreation and lovely in
spiration" are the chief benefits OF
riding q bicycle, according to Miss
Francis Willard.
The will of Elizabeth Anthony
BrAyton Hitchcock bequeaths $500
to the Union Theological Seminary,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Mrs. Rebecca T. Robinson, of West
Newton, Mass, is to defray the ex-
penses of the erection of a new scien-
tihc building at Tufts College, Mas
sachusetts.
A granddaughter of John G. Cal
houn has just made success in France.
playing in French with French COM
pany the role of Hermione in Rs .c;Ho
"Andrc. ...-.Iue.
A new bathing suit is a blouse red
ingote of blue serge, held at the waist
with sash of white serge, and revers
of white opening over plastron
striped with blue.
Mrs. Catharine Salisbury, q sister
of the Mormon prophet, Joseph Smith,
who was killed by a mob at Carthage,
Ill. June 81, 1914, is still living near
Fountain Green, Ill.
A school for women students of
medicine has been founded in Russia.
A ukase has been issued allowing
women to act as assistants to physl-
clans in the railroa districts.
Large and very rich buttons are
coming into favor. Some of the but
tons are set with jewels, others are of
stamped metal oxidized and FURNISHED
and others are riveted Jet on steel.
The Woodford prize in oratory,
which is given annually at Cornell
University, Ithaca, n. Y, was award
ed this year to q woman, for the first
time in the history of the university.
It appears that out of 800 young
ladies employed in the Savings Bank
Department of the English Postofice
only about a dozen, or II per cent.
leave during the year to get married.
Miss Nellie 8. Titus, the first woman
to apply for admission to the bar in
New York City during the last twenty
years, passed successful examination
before the Supreme Court of that city.
Miss Annie Thomson Nettleton has
resigned her position in Vassar Col
lege to become presiding officer OF
Guilford cottage at the Woman's Col
lege of the Western Reserve Uni
versity.
Miss Helen Gould is living very
quietly at Irvington on Hudson. Late
in the season she will spend week or
two at Roxbury, u. Y, where she is
building church, as q memorial for
her parents.
The Civil Service Commission OF
Washington has admitted women to
the examination to fill the position of
assistant in the department of vege-
table pathology in the Department of
The most fashionable way of treat
ing diamonds now is what is called the
double-cut brilliant It is also the
most expensive. The old style of cut
ting was in single-cut brilliants of
thirty-eight facets
One of the cleverest conductors of
periodical in the world is Lady
Clementina Hay, daughter of the
Marquise of Tweedale, who publishes
and edits magazine called City Spar
rows. She is fifteen years Of age.
Marie Antoinette fchus of chiffon,
dotted and plain muslin, net or lace,
either black or white, are one of the
accessories of summer
dress, and the very chick ones are
knotted in the back with falling ends
Miss Anne Whitney, the sculptor,
has completed bust of Keats in mar
BILE. which is to be placedin the parish
church of Hampstead, London, as a
memorial from the American and Eng
lish lovers of the poet. This bust is
pronounced a triumph of artistic
genius.
There are some 800 young women
in attendance on Cornell College,
Ithaca, N. Y, but it appears that
these ''co-eds, " as they are called, are
extremely unpopular with the male
students, who do not recognize them
as their social equal, and ignore them
as much as possible.
A movement has been organized re-
Gently in Chicago to build O station
house for women and children where
they may be detained until their cases
can be heard in court, where they may
be tried without association with male
criminals, and where they may have
competent female care.
Lillian Tomn, Cornish girl, has
taken first in the law tripos at Cam
bridge, England. She had studied
three years on the continent, where
she entered Girton in 1890, and in the
examinations she was
first in the first class on each occasion.
She is pretty, vivacious and particu-
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