The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-12

enacted a law that all males should
wear some kind OF hat IL only CROWN
handsome legacies to the Paris poor.
Among her requests are a fund to pro-
vide forty savings bank books of fi0 each
every year to poor and deserving girls and
boys. without distinction of religion or
nationality; also 1900 to found beds in
Paris hospitals for Italian patients. NJ.
Gay. a councillor, gave notice of a motion
which he will bring In at the next sitting,
to alter the name of Boulevard des
Italiens to that Of Boulevard Alboni.
correspondent. Its inside dog and its
outside dog The inside dog Is the pet
Skye terrier that Sir Herbert Maxwell
Struggled into the Whips rooms under
friendly and faithful animal of Mr.. Hob
house. Nell has just made her reappear-
ance after a prolonged absence owing
10 m health. The thirteen months session
was two much for her. and she had to
be sent away for change OF air. 1t was
too much for her. In that she Is not like
members in the House, overworked, but
overpetted She is the friend of every
one, and has been so pampered and fed
up with tit-bits, that like some other
ilustrious beings who live over-well she
had 70 go away and undergo a spare diet
Nell is now back, a genteei and
lady-like figure of dog. She comes down
TO the House with her master and stays
IN Palace Yard or Whereabouts ~ the
basks I'm the sun At other times she
trots round TO exchange greetings with
her friends. the policemen and messeh-
gers. Every one has friendly word for
Nell and Nell has L friendly wag Of
Emperor williams ancestors several
centuries ago kept a toll-gate'
LADY Henry Somerset and Miss Willard
a r. England.
and propose to duplicate it here, the pur-
pose of which Is the populariZlng OF pi,
cycle riding among women. Inc real
object of these two eminent reformers.
however. is to bring about dress reform
among women. through the medium OF
sport Every former effort TO get women
to wear boomers and breeches in pubic
has failed. and ii has been decided 10
devote attention to bicycling soleiy.
Houses in charge OF matrOns have been
established at various points OF treat
Britain, and the women supply the Dlcy
cles. which they buy on the instaIineht
plan. Tours have been laid out so that
women accompanied by men can so IRON
one bicycling station TO another, anu
everything is done for the convenience Oh
the riders. The only condition Is that
they shall wear brooches or boomers.
and English women have accepted this
condition with great aiacrity. Lazy
Henry declares that the movement IL
the entering wedge Of real dress REFORM
There is a fellow at Newport attached
TO one of the New York dailies who Is
bound to marry off all the available men
and women whose names he can get
II was he who first announced the en-
gacement of Jimmie Van Allen 10 MIS-;
Allen, which was subsequently tea, thet
10 be untrue, and now he has II mat
Miss Whittier Is engaged To Prince Belt
ozelszi of Russia, "a chamberlain 20 the
car and a man OF immense WedItn', go,
oh milo ~ a
In New York or Newport; but the INIT
tiers have been abroad Tor some t hn,;
and Miss Susie may possibly haye Deeh
She is a tall handsome girl, but her
mother has always been such yOutliui
beauty that the daughter has been kept
more or less in the background. -,
The wedding. ii is said. will take place
When they are married then we viii
know that the engagement was iouhued
upon fact.
Miss Frances Courtenay Baylor, the
well-known writer. who within the past
few years has been frequent visitor
to Washington, Is now spending the suniI
mer with a friend on the hudson. ara
is husily engaged in writing a new mover
which IS now about half completed. IL
will treat Of the rise ana progress rom
social nothingness OF an autocralc W.
nan. Miss Baylor has recently brought
out simultaneously In this country anu
London a novel under the title OF eau,
dia Hyde" The book in London Is called
simply Claudia" but as there was az
reagiv one Of that name In this country
IT was decided to have 1t called Claudia
HYDE" as stated In the London ell-
ti0n il appears as a three volume ro,
nance, but in the Boston edition. ISSUED
low Houghton, Mitllin Co., II Is In one
volume.
one Of the brightest women in WashinS-
ton IS the wife of Mr.. |. ). Bartlett, VINO
Is representative Coneen's private seer,
tarv. and "A well-known politician OF
Wyoming. Mrs. Bartlett enjoys the as
tinction of being the only woman IN Tue
limited States 10 be voted for In leSis-
lature for the United states Senator IN
was given the House clerkshlp OF the
wyoming legislature, and when tl2t
BODY engaged in a deadlock over the
Senatorship about "A yea ago. thS I'VE
Populist members east their votes LOT
Mrs. Bartlett amid considerable applause
from the galleries She is an intellsthl
advocate OF WOman's suffrage, ana mas
contributed to the press articles on poh-
tics. sketches. short stories, and trans
iations. has made several political speech
es and has recently published book on
the wyoming cattle war.